INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL OF CONTEMPORARY THEATER FOR ACTORS/DANCERS AND DIRECTORS
June 17 – 29, 2024 Belgrade
This year DAH Theater celebrates the 20th International School for Actors, Dancers and Directors.
The previous three years brought us numerous restrictions caused by the global pandemic, challenges that in many ways shaped our lives, including life in the theater. Despite these challenges, we continue and our International School is celebrating its 20th anniversary!
SCHOOL PROGRAM
Who can apply?
Professionals or students (regardless of training or technique) including: actors, directors, dancers, choreographers.
Working at the School gives participants the opportunity to choose whether they want to work as directors or performers.
A new approach in which directors and actors and/or dancers engage together in creative physical and vocal training and in the process of creating material from which, through montage, they create a performance.
Practical work in the hall
10.00 - 16.00 (including Saturday)
During this period, students will work with directors and founders of DAH Theatre, Dijana Milosevic and Jadranka Anđelić and actress Ivana Milenović Popović. Various skills and techniques that form actors/dancers/directors will be worked on. The principles of acting presence, the translation of different art forms into stage form, as well as how personal stories and biographies can serve as a basis for work on a play will be explored.
The paper will also focus on the director's process of editing stage materials to create a theater or dance performance.
The program is designed to provide practical education in contemporary acting/dance and directing.
• Body awareness, movement and voice: Physical training that develops body awareness and stage presence - differences between movement and action, how to work with energy in space and energy in time, developing strong stage presence and physical communication skills.
• Voice and speech: physical and vocal projection in space, diction, vocal actions.
• Director's techniques: conception, starting from a specific topic (which one wants to deal with) and developing materials that would result in performance, as well as editing techniques that serve to compose the entire performance.
Work on individual projects
For the last five days, the focus is on the individual projects you are currently working on. We offer you our mentorship, helping you find how these processes can be integrated with the work you want to do in the future. You will work on your project with director Dijana Milošević, Jadranka Anđelić, actress Ivana Milenović Popović and other professional actors of the DAH Theater.
Presentations of work, plays, lectures, film screenings
Students will have the opportunity to view the current ones performances DAH Theater, as well as to attend film screenings and lectures by DAH Theater artists and invited guest artists.
The program also includes a joint excursion of all participants, on weekends.
The working languages of the International School are English and Serbian.
Participant impressions
The DAH Theater method gave me new angles on how to approach and achieve presence on stage, which is encouraged by the principles of balance and double direction, firmly convinced of the necessity of synergy of voice, movement and intention. I discovered the power of association and montage, the importance of trust and teamwork.
Ivan Nikolic [Serbia], actor
DAH developed from the legacy of Odin Theatre, and Eugenio Barba (Director of Odin Theatre), from the legacy of Grotowski's Theatre. This fact meant a lot to me because in their methodology you can find a direct thread with the source of this kind of technique (although DAH's artists are unique in their work and originality.) They are serious (energetic and soulful) and great-spirited, fearless and dear, and above all interested in your work. It was very important to them that I could apply what I learned from them in my work during rehearsals for future projects.
Nick Rapp [USA], theater director
Theater director
The great passion, love and knowledge associated with the work of this group as well as the topics of conversation in which I constantly find myself: European politics, engagement and the great need for art.
Petra Adlerberth-Wik [Sweden], director
For the actor who wants to explore different approaches and techniques - DAH offers wide possibilities of exploration with body and voice in space. Movement in space, understanding of distance and direction in space. Combining it with vocal training and learning techniques, the trainings can give you a lot and become a part of your daily routine. The creation of acting materials and teamwork are one of the most significant contributions of this school. The sense of belonging is what you feel as soon as you step into DAH.
Vedanth Ramesh [India], actor
The international school is run by actress Ivana Milenović Popović, directors Dijana Milošević and Jadranka Anđelić.
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