Conference Performing Arts Training Today

International Conference
"Performing Arts Training Today"

October 28-31, 2009
Leitring bei Leibnitz, Austria

The conference is open to performers from all over the world interested in the research of topical questions and processes in contemporary performing arts education and training. Programme: practical workshops, performances, works-in-progress, presentations, lectures, discussions.

The conference is inviting actors, directors, choreographers, dancers, performing arts educators and teachers, playwrights, stage designers, script writers, critics, journalists, arts managers!

Programme:

- Japanese Noh and Suzuki techniques - Workshop and presentation by Izumi Ashizawa - actress, director, artistic director of Izumi Ashizawa Performance, Assistant Professor of Acting and Movement, University of Maryland (Japan/USA).

- Performer's Physicality in the Methods of V.Meyerhold, M.Chekhov and K. Stanislavsky - Workshop with Sergei Ostrenko - theatre director and teacher (Russia).

- A Journey of Separation: Actor Training in Ireland - Presentation with Janice Kennedy - performing arts educator and teacher (UK).

- The Change We Should Be Making - creating a better future through the arts - Presentation with Adelina Ong - actor, performer, performing arts manager and educator (Singapore).

- Teaching Avant-Garde Piano Techniques and the New Expressive, Sonorous, Artistic, and Performance Elements they Introduce -
Lecture-demonstration with elements of performance with Mira Kruja - musician, music scholar, performer and teacher (USA).

- In the cage - Work-in-progress - dance performance with Doris Hintsteiner - dancer, choreographer and teacher (Austria).

Please follow the news of the programme! The list of confirmed events is being updated regularly.

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

Registration: http://www.iugte.com/projects/conf.reg.php

Venue & accommodation:

http://www.iugte.com/projects/leibnitz.php