Challenges of the Mind Artistic Director ● Dr Jurij Alschitz New Dimensions in Theatre Training A reader of the online conference 15 – 17 June 2020 Curator, Moderator and Editor ● Christine Schmalor An initiative of the World Theatre Training Institute AKT-ZENT/ITI and the ITI/UNESCO Network for Higher Education in the Performing Arts invited by the Galiaskar Kamal Tatar Academic Theatre on the occasion of the 6th International Theatre and Education Festival- Forum “Nauruz”. Published by the World Theatre Training Institute AKT-ZENT/ITI edition ars incognita 2020 Content Welcome note by Professor Farid Rafkatovich Bikchantaev ..................................................... 3 Welcome Address by Prof h.c. Tobias Biancone ........................................................................ 6 Introduction by Christine Schmalor ........................................................................................... 9 Keynote by Dr. Jurij Alschitz ..................................................................................................... 13 Conference speakers ................................................................................................................ 17 Professor Pavlos Kavouras Empowering theater training through performative awareness: on the dialogics of reflexivity and transcendental consciousness .................................................... 17 Marcus Lobbes Bodies in Spaces. Changed working conditions under the condition of a partial relocation of production and work processes into digital and virtual spaces. ....................................................... 32 Interlude37 A Question of Change ........................................................................................................................ 37 Johannes Gärtner SENSE – MEANING – NOThing but mySELF ....................................................................................... 38 Dr Dumitriana Condurache The one-to-one method and its new perspectives ........................................................................... 46 Felipe Cervera Planetary performance pedagogies: towards pedagogies of remote co-presence in theatre training ...................................................... 52 Professor Dr. Erik Lint Expressive Media: Roots for the Future ............................................................................................ 54 Christine Schmalor New Dimensions in Theatre Training ............................................................................................... 67 Roundtable Discussion ............................................................................................................. 71 Dr Jurij Alschitz The spirit of self-creation is a free soul ............................................................................................. 71 Professor Alejandro Puche The ritual of rehearsals in the virtual age ......................................................................................... 72 Tobias Biancone It’s all about Communication ............................................................................................................ 75 2 Jaroslaw Fret Body Constitution for pandemic time ............................................................................................... 76 Janice Poon Not losing hope ................................................................................................................................. 79 Online Theatre Training in Russia............................................................................................. 81 Interviews Sergei Dreyden .................................................................................................................................. 81 Alexander Filippenko ......................................................................................................................... 82 Adolf Shapiro ..................................................................................................................................... 83 Yulia Peresild ..................................................................................................................................... 84 Professor Rosa Shaikhaydarovna Akhmadieva Prospects for using distant educational technologies in the training of cultural and artistic professionals ..................................................................................................................................... 86 Elmira Kurilenko, Victoria Bogdanova Pedagogical Discoveries or positive Aspects of Distance Learning for Artists at a Higher Theatre Education Institution ......................................................................................................................... 91 Igor Malikov Online training for actors and directors ............................................................................................ 97 Voices during and after the conference ................................................................................... 99 The Organisations ................................................................................................................... 104 The World Theatre Training Institute AKT-ZENT / ITI ...................................................................... 104 The ITI/UNESCO Network for Higher Education in the Performing Arts ......................................... 105 Galiaskar Kamal Tatar Academic Theatre ........................................................................................ 106 Please respect our work and get your own copy at our BOOKSHOP Published by World Theatre Training Institute AKT-ZENT e.V. |research centre of the International Theatre Institute Berlin, Germany [email protected] www.theatreculture.org In collaboration with the Galiaskar Kamal Tatar Academic Theatre, Kazan, Russia All © by the authors All rights reserved ISBN 978-3-946735-14-4 3 Welcome note by Professor Farid Rafkatovich Bikchantaev It is a pleasure for me to welcome everyone reading this online brochure dedicated to the International Online Conference on new dimensions in Theater Training “Challenges of the Mind”. The above mentioned conference was held under the auspices of the ITI/UNESCO Network for Higher Education in the Performing Arts, on the basis of the World Theater Training Institute "AKT -ZENT” (ITI Research Center) and in the frame of the VI International Theatre and Education Online-Festival-Forum “Nauruz”. The Festival-Forum was organized by the Galiaskar Kamal Tatar State Academic Theater (Kazan, the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia), where I work as the artistic director. Our theatre has once in two years been holding the education Festival-Forum “Nauruz” since 2010. During this period more than three thousand people from Tatarstan, Russia and the CIS have completed their performing arts tuition under the supervision of almost one hundred of specialists in different areas of theatre training. This year because of the restrictions imposed by the pandemic we took the liberty of making our traditional educational program online. It should be noted that such a format allowed us to increase participant number, and more importantly, allowed for a continuation of communication. I am grateful to Tobias Biancone, the President of the ITI/UNESCO Network for Higher Education in the Performing Arts and Director General of the International Theatre Institute who is our ongoing teacher and tutor. I would also like to express my gratitude to Dr. Jurij Alschitz, the Director of the World Theater Training Institute "AKT–ZENT” and Christine Schmalor, the Conference moderator, for their active participation, brilliant ideas and their realization. I got lots of wonderful impressions and reflections on the theatre, its essence, past and future during the conference dates, June 15-17. I also had the feeling of the theatre community that keeps up with the times and tries things out, having no fear of going wrong. The theater was challenged. And many of us could immediately reform, change their work methods and even get very interesting experiment results in the sphere of online training. On the one hand, the experiments convinced me that it is possible to go online in the process of directors’ and actors’ tuition (I have been teaching for more than 30 years). This training format gives some brand new tools and has good prospects for further development. On the other hand, though it seems surprising, the online format did prove that theatre is a living art, and theatrical knowledge that we try to transmit online is aimed at teaching how to evoke a lively emotion and human response in the audience. This professional talk became our mutual theater mind challenge to the hastily changing modern epoch that makes us change together with it. It seems to me that in these days the realization of the following fact hit all of us. No matter how we are pressed and lead by time, it is necessary for theatre and theater education to preserve the foundations of living, 4 quivering, leisurely, and contemplative, better comprehension of theatrical truths. And during this downtime, this forced disconnection from the live theater “oxygen”, we are all the more convinced that real, full-blooded, tangible life is the true theater basis. This forced stop assumed the meaning of lost time that should be realized and recovered … in any and every possible ways including virtual ones. Surprisingly online communication allows us to approach this aim when live