2-Day Intensive: Circumstances as a Magnetic Force

In this 2-day Intensive actors will be introduced to Demidov’s unique approach to accessing our inner freedom, cultivating our intuition, perception, spontaneity and ability to surrender fully to our inner urges and the truth of our experience in the moment.

Over these two days we will work with techniques central to Demidov’s art of living on stage and screen:

The Foundations – We will work with Demidov’s signature Etudes – the foundation and the peak of the whole Demidov School. These improvisational exercises with a given text train in us the ability to surrender to the free flow of our inner life, our subconscious creativity. We then discover how character, circumstances and relationships arise on their own, without our conscious interference. We become more creatively free, spontaneous and able to truly live in the moment.

The Magnetic Power of Circumstances – Circumstances, both known and unknown, are an enormously powerful, subtle and pervasive force that work through, transform and drive us, if we can learn how to immerse ourselves in them, bring them close to us and surrender to them. During this intensive, drawing on the principle of Inexact or Creative Repetition – how we allow every repetition to be fully alive – we will get a taste of the transformative power of circumstances – and how effortlessly our life as character unfolds as a result.

This intensive is for actors both new to the Demidov work, and also for those who would like to continue to go deeper into it. The intensive will be two days, six hours each day.

The Demidov Organic Acting Technique is rooted in the culture of creative freedom. The Demidov School approaches the creative process as an indivisible whole (everything we need is already there from the beginning). We put the actor’s talent, creativity, and intuition at the heart of everything we do. The Demidov School was created in the latter part of the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th Century by Nikolai Demidov, a close associate of Stanislavsky. As founding director of the Moscow Art Theatre’s School, and one of the three original teachers of the Stanislavsky System, Nikolai Demidov uncovered the professional secret that puts actors in touch with their own creative individuality by teaching them to recognise and follow their artistic instincts, and he was able to solve the problems of the actor’s creative state that Stanislavsky never could.

The 2-day Intensive will be led by Demidov Studio Vienna Director Andrei Biziorek.

Dates&Times
Saturday July 5th
Sunday July 6th
10am to 4pm

Price
345 €
Early Bird until June 11th: 295 €

Where
Studio Iaspis
Rossauer Lände 23 A
1090 Wien