Jurij Alschitz

Jurij Alschitz

Jurij Alschitz ( Russian Юрий Леонович Альшиц Juri Leonowitsch Alschiz , transl. Jurij Leonovič Al'šic ; born August 9, 1947 in Odessa , Soviet Union ) is a Russian theater director. He has lived and worked in Berlin since 1992 .

Alschitz, Dr. phil. is a theater director, drama teacher, scientist in applied theater research and has developed a comprehensive artistic, methodical and philosophical approach to the art of acting in the 21st century with “Training as a Method”. He is Artistic Director of the European Association for Theater Culture and the World Theater Training Institute AKT-ZENT, the research center for training methods of the International Theater Institute .

Life

Alschitz, son of the actress Raissa Stawizkaja and the set designer Leon Alschiz, grew up in a traditional theater family.

First experiences in theater

After studying directing at the Moscow State University for Culture and Art from 1969 to 1973 with JN Malkowskij, a direct student of KS Stanislawskij and numerous productions at state theaters in Moscow , Kiev , Odessa , Riga , etc. a. Alschitz decided to do a second degree with M. Budkewitsch, Oleg Koudriachov and A. Vasiljev at GITIS - the Russian Academy of Theater Arts, where he also held a teaching position from 1989 to 1992, and in 1987 he joined the founding team of the Theater School of Dramatic Art - Anatolij Vasiljev belonged to. As a pedagogue and actor, Jurij Alschitz was involved in the legendary production " Six People Searching for an Author " by Luigi Pirandello , directed by Anatolij Vasiljev, and visited festivals around the world. His training methods for this ensemble theater found their reflection in 2003 in his dissertation Ensemble and Personality - Their Artistic and Ethical Relationship at the Russian Academy of Theater Arts - GITIS 2003.

Teachers in Europe

With the move to Berlin in 1992, Alschitz finally shifted his work focus to drama pedagogy, above all to the further training of professional actors and directors as well as to the development of a communicable pedagogy and methodology for drama teachers. This also marked the beginning of the phase of intensive practical research and teaching at theater schools and academies such as the State University for Music and Performing Arts (Stuttgart), Folkwang University (Essen), the University of the Arts (Berlin), the Dramatiska Institutet (Stockholm), Malmö Theater Academy, Civica Accademia D'Arte Dramatica Nico Pepe (Udine), Film Institute (Rome), Pontedera Teatro, Scuola D'Arte Drammatica Paolo Grassi (Milan).

Foundation of the European Association for Theater Culture

In order to be able to establish long-term and concentrated acting pedagogical work in Europe, Alschitz founded SCUT (Skandinaviskt Centrum for Utforskning av Teater) in Stockholm in 1994 . This was followed in 1995 by AKT-ZENT Internationales Theaterzentrum Berlin and PROTEI Progetti Teatrali Internazionali in Rome. In 2000 these independently operating centers merged with the newly established center KOINE Langages Transartistiques Paris under his artistic direction to form the European Association for Theater Culture (EATC).

Since 1996 Jurij Alschitz has initiated extensive projects on specific topics, which were carried out together with the centers of the European Association for Theater Culture, leading academies and national centers of the International Theater Institute. In the process, specialist books for acting practice such as “The vertical of the role. A method for the independent development of a role ”and“ 40 questions for a role ”, with which he introduced maeutics as a method of role analysis. “The Art of Dialogue” provided the path to the “Dialogue of the Sphere” for the first time.

With “School after Theater”, a cooperation with the Russian Academy for Theater Arts GITIS, Alschitz has introduced the principle of professional extra-occupational training for directing and acting in Western Europe. Between 1995 and 2009 this 3-year advanced training was carried out in 9 international classes with modules in Estonia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Sweden and Russia.

With the "International Directors 'and Trainers' Colloquium" he introduced courses for acting teachers, which he presented in 2001 at the Theater Olympics in Moscow as an innovative form of professional training for drama pedagogy.

At the first World Conference of Rectors of Higher Education Theater Institutions (1999), Alschitz received international attention for this topic by completely re-evaluating the profession of acting educator and making "Training of Trainers" in the field of acting education the top priority for the development of theater proposed.

Following this thesis, Alschitz launched the first international festival for theater training methods METHODIKA in 1999, which then took place every two years on a new topic in Italy, Sweden, Russia and Cyprus and became a think tank for new, unexplored approaches in theater training.

In 2012-14, Alschitz took up the topic of “Training the Trainers” again and implemented it in practice at the Centro Universitario de Teatro of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) with the first international master’s degree in acting “Teaching Professional Theater Practice”. His manifesto “The New Face of the Acting Teacher” suggests alternative forms and fundamental changes in teaching.

Since the founding of the EATC , Jurij Alschitz has trained actors and directors in various forms of seminars and laboratories and has built up his so-called “Team of Teachers”, who teach his methodology with many voices worldwide.

Research center of the International Theater Institute ITI

Due to its research activities, the international theater center AKT-ZENT became the Research Center of the Theater Education & Training Committee / ITI in 2006 . In 2011, the General Assembly of the International Theater Institute named AKT-ZENT under the artistic direction of Jurij Alschitz as the ITI Research Center for Theater Training Methods.

Alschitz has been the artistic and scientific director of the World Theater Training Institute AKT-ZENT / ITI since 2017 . The institute primarily pursues the ITI project "The World Theater Training Library", a long-term study and artistic-methodological development work on training methods worldwide. For this purpose, Alschitz has traveled to almost all continents since 2010, conducted interviews, attended rehearsals, gave lectures and seminars in order to let the impressions and ideas grow into new training exercises in international laboratories and to combine them with the latest achievements from science and technology, such as the fractal To combine geometry , quantum physics , wave theory and phenomena of resonance . From this he developed new teaching formats and the term quantum education. Alschitz represents the idea of ​​a holistic theater in which the artist sees himself as part of the theater cosmos and in this way achieves individual freedom and independence. Hybrid Education on the institute's own online learning platform is part of the new teaching concept .

Alschitz is a sought-after expert at international festivals and conferences. His specialist books are published in numerous languages ​​worldwide.

Publications

• Jurij Alschitz: The vertical of the role. A method to independently develop the role . AKT-ZENT BERLIN, Berlin Germany 2003, ISBN 9783980923019 .
• Jurij Alschitz: 40 questions for a role. A method to independently develop the role . AKT-ZENT BERLIN, Berlin Germany 2005, ISBN 9783980923040 . Jurij Alschitz: La Grammatica Dell'Attore. Il training . Ubulibri Milan, Italy 1998, ISBN 9788877481955 .
• Jurij Alschitz: La Matematica Dell'Attore . Ubulibri Milan, Italy 2004, ISBN 9788877482402 .
• Jurij Alschitz: .Teatro senza Regista . Titivillus Pisa, Italy 2007, ISBN 9788872181973 .
• Jurij Alschitz: The Vertical of the Role. A method for the actor's self-preparation . AKT-ZENT BERLIN, Berlin Germany 2003, ISBN 9783980923002 .
• Jurij Alschitz: 40 Questions of One Role. A method for the actor's self-preparation . AKT-ZENT BERLIN, Berlin Germany 2005, ISBN 9783980923057 .
• Jurij Alschitz: Training forever . Lund University, Theater Academy, Malmö 2003, ISBN 9789197497312 .
• Jurij Alschitz: I Katakoriphos tou Rolou. Methodos gia thin Prosopiki Proetimasia tou Ithopiou 2009, ISBN 9783980923064 .
• Jurij Alschitz: The Art of Dialogue. Methods for theater practice 2010, ISBN 9783980923088 .
• Jurij Alschitz: The Art of Dialogue. Methods for Theater Practice 2010, ISBN 9783980923071 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jurij Alschitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Theater culture
• Alschitz
• Hybrid theater training platform
• International Theater Institute

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jurij Alschitz: training L'attore e il. Retrieved December 13, 2017 (Italian). 
2. ^ International Theater Institute ITI. Accessed December 12, 2017 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Juri Alschitz. Retrieved December 13, 2017 . 
4. ↑ AKT-ZENT eV International Theater Center . In: eepap.culture.pl . June 11, 2015 ( culture.pl [accessed December 13, 2017]). AKT-ZENT eV International Theater Center ( Memento of the original dated December 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ The 25th International Directors 'and Trainers' Colloquium celebrates its anniversary in January 2018 in Berlin . In: OpenPR.de . ( openpr.de [accessed on December 13, 2017]).
6. ↑ (ITI / UNESCO Chair World Conference of Rectors of Higher Education Theater Institutions in Sinaia (Romania), 1999 and 2000; Theater Training & Education Committee ITI / UNESCO etc.)
7. ↑ International Theater Institute: The World of Theater: An Account of the Theater Seasons 1996-97, 1997-98 and 1998-99 . Taylor & Francis, 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-23866-3 ( google.de [accessed December 13, 2017]).
8. ↑ Lic. Mario Espinosa Ricalde: CUT - Dirección General de Planeación - UNAM. Retrieved December 13, 2017 (Spanish). 
9. ↑ EU projects third countries (program 2007-2013). Creative Europe Desk, accessed November 16, 2019 . 
10. ^ Report 34th ITI World Congress [1]
11. ^ Theater 4D with Jurij Alschitz. Retrieved December 13, 2017 (Italian). 
12. ^ Jurij Alschitz: The Path to a Holistic Theater. In: https://www.theatreculture.org . World Theater Training Institute AKT-ZENT, accessed November 16, 2019 . 
13. ^ Arts Research Institute. Retrieved December 13, 2017 (UK English). 
14. ↑ Périplo Produções - 2011. Accessed December 13, 2017 . 
15. ↑ Encontros com Jurij Alschitz no MACU | Teatro Escola Macunaíma . In: Blog Macunaíma . February 9, 2017 ( com.br [accessed December 13, 2017]).
16. ↑ Jurij Alschitz: un artista contemporaneo non è may contemporaneo. Intervista | Approfondimenti . In: Krapp's Last Post . May 7, 2015 ( klpteatro.it [accessed December 13, 2017]).