2 Days Chekhov Technqiue – Imagination

Imagination – the insight into the inner life of artistic figures

In this workshop we approach imagination and gain insight into the power of inner images. Once we accept the self-existence of the figures, we can get in touch with them on the basis of a specific artistic task.

For example, how does the Virgin of Orleans feel at the moment of revelation?

We observe the figures until our creative senses are aroused by them. Imagination and concentration will bring us to the high pleasure of pictorial possibilities and reveal to us a deeper palpable soul life of the characters.

Text sequences of different role characters will be provided.

Please bring comfortable clothing as we will be moving around a lot.

As a theater educator, lecturer and actress, Kathrin Heuer has been designing advanced training courses, workshops and productions with young people, adults and professionals all over Germany since 2003. She currently works as a lecturer for future theater educators (BuT-Certification), is involved in the Berlin Children’s Opera project at the State Opera Unter den Linden and does her own work as a director. At the Michael Chekhov International Academy Berlin she completed the teacher program (MCIA Teacher Certification) in 2018 and, together with colleagues from the Academy, offers drop-in courses and workshops for professionals and other people interested Michael Chekhov’s physical and imagination-based system of actor training.

Supported by the intensive examination of the Michael Chekhov technique, she can awaken spaces for creative play in her work through inspiration and impulses, in order to then implement them in self-determined creative processes and movements.

Marcus Kohlbach, theatre director and arts manager. He studied “Sprachen-, Wirtschafts- und Kulturraumstudien” (cultural studies) in Passau. During and after his studies, he assisted at the Nationaltheater Weimar, Schauspiel Frankfurt and the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel, among others. He worked as a director at the Württembergische Landesbühne Esslingen, the Landestheater Salzburg and the Schauspielbühnen in Stuttgart. He and Kathrin Heuer have been working together on projects in the theatrical-aesthetic context for many years and have conducted joint workshops during this time. He is the artistic director of the Utopienwerkstatt, which produces contemporary theatre at the intersection of other fields of art and designs innovative cultural education projects. Since 2013, he also is one of the two festival directors of the media art festival “Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media”.