| Workshop with Alexey Levinskiy |
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Sat-Wed 28 September – 2 October, 3pm – 8pm Thu 3 October, 7pm Jonathan Pitches in conversation with Alexey Levinskiy Work demonstration by workshop participants PWST (drama school), ul. Braniborska 59, Wroc³aw There are some skills that can help the actor in his work: coordination in space and time, balance and readiness to focus. Biomechanics training helps to acquire these skills. Each workshop consists of two parts. The first part is general training during which participants learn how to construct movement using the principles of biomechanics. In the second part, participants learn one of Meyerhold’s five biomechanical etudes.  Alexey Alexandrovich Levinskiy is an actor, director and teacher. He is the winner of the State Prize of the Russian Federation for the Arts. He graduated from Moscow’s MHAT (1969), where he trained as an actor. From 1969 to 1987 he was a leading actor with the Satire Theatre, Moscow. From 1971 to 1975 he studied biomechanics under Nicolai Georgyevich Kustov, Meyerhold’s former colleague, actor and biomechanics teacher at Meyerhold’s theatre in the 1930s. In 1979 he graduated in directing from the State Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS). In the same year he began experimental work with actors and students, and founded the Theatre Studio, which is still in existence today. He currently works as an actor and director at Moscow’s OKOLO and Ermolova Theatre, and regularly conducts master classes in biomechanics at the Meyerhold Centre as well as in Austria, Germany, Holland, UK, US and other countries. In 2006 he led a workshop at the Grotowski Institute as part of the Institute’s Body Line in Theatre seminar. |