International Conference
"Performing Arts Training Today"

April 28 - May 1, 2010
Leitring bei Leibnitz, Austria

"Performing Arts Training Today" is the professional conference open to performers, performing arts educators and teachers from all over the world interested in the research of topical questions and processes in contemporary performing arts education and training.

The conference is open to different art genres, techniques and forms: theatre, dance, music, circus, visual and multimedia art.

Programme: practical workshops, masterclasses, presentations, works-in-progress, lectures and discussions.

Participants: actors, directors, choreographers, dancers, performing arts educators, teachers, musicians, singers, composers, stage designers, painters, mask makers, multimedia artists,  scriptwriters, playwrights, theatre critics, journalists and arts managers.

PROGRAMME:

• "Breathing the Experience: Breath, the Great Creative Connector, Voice Training for Acting Impulses"
  practical workshop with Christina Gutekunst - voice and speech expert, teacher, coach (UK).
• “The Jazz Performance: Creativity and Structure”
  Presentation with Ricardo Pinheiro - musicial, performer, teacher, researcher (Portugal)
• "Integrating Arthur Lessac's Voice and Body System with Tadashi Suzuki's Movement for the Actor"
  practical workshop with Robin Carr - voice specialist, vocal and dialect coach, acting instructor, performer (USA).
• "How to Audition for Film and TV" - practical workshop with Simon Longmore - actor, teacher, acting coach (Canada).
• "Dancing Spine" - practical workshop-masterclass with Doris Hintsteiner - dancer, choreographer, teacher (Austria).
• "The Problem of Verse-Speaking Training" - presentation with Katarzyna Lech - actress, drama teacher, acting coach (Ireland).
• "Building a Nation: Thirty Students at a Time" - presentation with Mareth van Schalkwyk - director, facilitator, drama teacher, lecturer in performing arts (South Africa).  
• "Performers Physicality in the Methods of Meyerhold, M.Chekhov, Stanislavsky" - practical workshop with Sergei Ostrenko - theatre director and teacher (Russia).

The list of confirmed events is updated regularly!

Please follow the programme news on
http://www.iugte.com/projects/presentations.php

The working language is English.

Photo of the Past Conference:
http://picasaweb.google.ru/globtheatre/IUGTEConference

Registration details: to apply for participation, candidates should send a brief cover letter and CV/resume with photo to globtheatre@gmail.com

General information:
http://www.iugte.com/projects/Conference.php

Accommodation & Venue:
http://www.iugte.com/projects/Retzhof.php