Integral Performing
The actor, singer and university professor Eberhard Storz describes the concept of musical theater he developed in the 1980s at the Bavarian State Theater on Gärtnerplatz in Munich as integral performing .
The Integral Performing formulated a controversial alternative to Stanislawski's “System” and Strasberg's “Method Acting”, a result of the workshop series “Singing Actor - Acting Singer” and in exchange with professional actors and students from the Munich training centers for drama and music theater . It does not work with individually experienced and subjectively memorable content, but with general behavioral patterns . Psychoanalytic practices as a means of 'personal development' of the performer are categorically rejected in Integral Performing . Rather, it is believed that comprehensible presentation is subject to strict and definable "rules of the game". Integral Performing requires a holistic concept for all areas of basic training in acting, singing and dancing. The "rules of the game" are described and learned as psychosomatic "functional groups". For individual and group work, Integral Performing offers clearly defined training units instead of a concept of improvisation .