International Michael Chekhov Training

“As Michael [Chekhov]’s pupil, I learned more then acting... Every time he spoke, the world seemed to become bigger and more exciting... Acting became an art that increased your life and mind.”

Marilyn Monroe

The "International Michael Chekhov Training" is created and taught by the net members Suzana Nicolic (Croatia), Ulrich Meyer-Horsch (Germany)and Jesper Michelsen (Denmark) and guests .

It consists of four formats:

1. The Art of Acting and Creating Programme ( AAC)
-Five workshop modules within two years, for more information look here:
Download AAC Programme:
AAC Programme [3.288 KB]

2.Local IntroductoryWorkshops

3."The Creative Impulse " series

4. Michael Chekhov Summer Retreat

For all further informations click here: www.michaelchekhov.eu

Next upcoming module of the AAC Programme :

International Michael Chekhov Workshop
MAKING CONTACT: BODY – IMAGINATION – EMOTION
13 - 17 March 2012 in Hamburg (Germany)
Module I

This workshop is open to everybody interested in working professionally with the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique.
You are welcome to take just this individual workshop, or you can continue with joining more modules of the ‘Art of Acting and Creating’ Training Programme.

Faculty:
David Zinder, Tel Aviv, Israel
Suzana Nikolić, Zagreb, Croatia
Ulrich Meyer-Horsch, Hamburg, Germany

Our lives make a difference when we connect, when we make contact. We can make contact with ourselves, to somebody (one person or a group of people) or to something (space, objects, subjects). There is no artistic work without contact.

In order to make our work on stage authentic and alive, we need to get into contact with both our inner images and our emotions within seconds.
Imagination is a matter of fact. Every human being has it. And every artist has his/her own way of using it. For an actor 80% of his/her work is concrete imagination. Images are the core of creativity. They are the fuel of ideas and emotions. How do we create images? How do they feed the emotional life of the character? And how can we embody images, make them physical, so that we can share them with the audience?
The Michael Chekhov Technique connects our sub-consciousness and imagination to the physical reality creating the world of sensations and emotions.

We will work on:
● Concentration ● Imagination ● Psycho-physical Exercises ● Voice Training
● Gesture ● Qualities of Movement ● Qualities, Sensations, Feelings ● Ensemble

Please bring a short text or working material (like a song, poem, monologue, dialogue) which you would like to explore.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Date: Tuesday 13 – Saturday 17 March 2012

Working hours: 10.00h – 17.30h (incl. 75min. lunch break)

Working space: Schule für Schauspiel Hamburg
Oelkersallee 33
Hamburg
www.schauspielschule-hamburg.com


Public transport:
S-train: Holstenstrasse (10 min. walk)

Working language: English / Participants can act in their own language

Costs: € 420,-- (application before February 1st 2012)
€ 450,-- (application after February 1st 2012)
Housing and food is not included. We will be happy to help you to find cheap accommodation (see below).
Participants from former Yugoslavia and non-EU-countries can apply for a grant/discount.

Office: Michail Cechov Schauspielstudio Hamburg
Arnoldstrasse 77, 22763 Hamburg, Germany
(10 min. walk from Altona train station)



CONTACT
Michael Chekhov Europe e.V.
& International Michael Chekhov Training
Ulrich Meyer-Horsch
Arnoldstrasse 77, 22763 Hamburg, Germany
umeyerhorsch@gmx.de
+49 40 394964
+49 40 18032347 (fax)
+49 177 3165375 (mobile)

suzana@adu.hr; +385 1 4828507 (ext.108)
jesperjaever@gmail.com; +45 21829999

FACULTY

Suzana Nikolić
Actress, Professor for Voice and Speech, Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb

Suzana Nikolić is a graduate of the Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb. She was a Fulbright scholar at NYU – Tisch School of the Arts, Graduate Acting Program (1998/99). She has over 15 years of additional acting and voice training abroad. Since 2006 – 2010 she was Head of Voice and Speech Department.
Ms Nikolić’s current position at the Academy of Dramatic Art is Full time Professor. She is a Founder and Artistic director of Performing Arts Etra and Michael Chekhov Studio Croatia.
Her acting credits include theatre performances, feature films, television films & serials, as well as radio. She is an award winning actress.
Ms Nikolić's organizational and producing credits includes over a dozen international workshops, most of them concerning voice and speech work and Michael Chekhov acting technique. She also produced M.I.Fornes play MUD which was staged at ZeKaEm, Zagreb, 2004.
Ms Nikolić has been certificated as a teacher of Michael Chekhov Technique in 2004 by MICHA, USA. She works professionally with the Technique over ten years.



David Zinder
Director, Author, Prof. emeritus of Tel Aviv University Department of Theatre Arts David Zinder is a freelance international director and master teacher with over three decades of experience in actor training and directing.
A founding member of Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA), Prof. Zinder has taught and directed extensively in the US, Europe, India and the Far East. The many years he spent training actors culminated in the development of his ImageWork Training for actors, which has been published in book form as: Body - Voice - Imagination: A Training for the Actor. A second edition was published in 2010 with additional material and a new subtitle: ImageWork Training and the Chekhov Technique.
Since 2002 he has been directing regularly in Romania where he produced highly acclaimed productions of The Dybbuk, The Bacchae, a Stoppard double-bill: After Magritte & The Real Inspector Hound, Macbeth, Peer Gynt and Six Characters in Search of an Author.



Ulrich Meyer-Horsch
Actor and Director. Artistic Director of Michail Cechov Schauspielstudio Hamburg

For the last twenty years he has been acting and directing in German state and regional theatres such as Theater Kiel, Theater Lübeck, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Altonaer Theater, Komödie Düsseldorf and Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin. He has worked with Simon McBurney and Complicite, Philippe Gaulier, Augusto Boal, Lorna Marshall and Yoshi Oida. As an award winning director he is known for his playful productions of the works of Bertolt Brecht.
He holds diplomas in Acting from Schule für Schauspiel Hamburg, and in Theology, Philosophy and Theatre Pedagogy from the Universities of Heidelberg, Hamburg, London (King’s College) and Kiel.
Mr.Meyer-Horsch studied with Michael Chekhov’s former students Hurt Hatfield, Deidre Hurst du Prey, Mala Powers and Joanna Merlin as well as with Chekhov teachers from Germany and Russia. In his approach to the Chekhov Technique he incorporates the exploration of children’s games and work with masks. Since 1994 he has been teaching all over Europe as well as in Brazil. He is a member of the international faculty of MICHA in New York 2012.



HOW TO GET TO HAMBURG

By train
There are good train connections to many European cities.
How to go to the working space:
From Hauptbahnhof (main station) you take the S-Bahn to Holstenstrasse (S11, S21 or S31). From there it is a 10 min. walk to Oelkersallee 33.
How to go to the Studio/Office:
Get off at Bahnhof Altona. From there you take Bus Nr.15 to Othmarschen / Klein Flottbek and get off after 3 stops (Fischers Allee). Alternative: 10 min. walk from Bahnhof Altona (S-Bahn station)

From Hamburg Airport (Fuhlsbüttel):
From the Airport you can take the S-Bahn to get to Hauptbahnhof (main station), Holstenstrasse or Bahnhof Altona (see also “arriving by train”).

From Hamburg-Lübeck Airport (Blankensee):
Ryanair (cheap flights) www.ryanair.com / www.flughafen-luebeck.net
There is a shuttle bus which will take you from Lübeck Airport to Hamburg Hauptbahnhof (main station). From there you can take S-Bahn to Holstenstrasse or Bahnhof Altona.

Good idea is to have your mobiles with you and send SMS whenever needed to
+49 177 3165375 (Ulrich).



THE CITY
www.hamburg-tourism.de
www.hamburg.de
www.hafen-hamburg.de



ACCOMODATION
Please let us know if you need help to find accommodation.

Hostel: from 19 € per night
www.schanzenstern.de
www.instantsleep.de
www.hostels.com/hamburg

Bed & Breakfast: ca. 25–30 € per night

Hotel: from 40 € per night
www.hamburg-tourism.de
www.hamburg.de
www.Hotelreservierung.de/Hamburg



EATING in Hamburg
There are many cafes, restaurants and shops in the area. You can pay in Euro, credit card and V-pay (maestro/girocard). Smaller places will accept only cash.


HOW TO APPLY

Please fill in the application form (Download here: Applicationform HH 2012 [31 KB] )
and send it to:

Michael Chekhov Europe e.V.
(International Michael Chekhov Training)
Ulrich Meyer-Horsch
Arnoldstrasse 77
22763 Hamburg
Germany

or fax it to the following number: +49 40 18032347

Please make your payment to:
Hermann Zumach-Rambow
Address: Rappstrasse 18, D-20146 Hamburg
Bank: GLS Bank Bochum (BLZ 43060967)
Account number: 2023945700
IBAN: DE80 4306 0967 2023 9457 00
BIC: GENODEM1GLS
mentioning ‘Chekhov workshop March 2012’

Applications will be registered once the application form has been returned and the fee is paid. Your place will be confirmed by mail as soon as possible thereafter. Your application is definite and irrevocable. The fee is non-refundable, unless someone else fills your place (for example from a possible waiting list). In that case there will be an administrative charge of
€ 40,--.
The organizers are not responsible for any claims regarding loss or theft of valuables, or in cases of accidents or illness.

Ca.14 days before the workshop begins you will be sent further details concerning the training, the chosen play/material and practical matters. You will be given a receipt of your payment upon arrival.

All details are subject to change.