World Theater Training Institute

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The World Theater Training Institute AKT-ZENT was founded in 1995 as AKT-ZENT International Theater Center Berlin by the artistic directors Jurij Alschitz and Christine Schmalor. Since 2011 it has been working as the research center for theater training methods of the International Theater Institute (ITI) - the world organization for the performing arts . In 2017 the name was changed to World Theater Training Institute AKT-ZENT in view of new tasks and objectives.

Working method and history

Since the foundation, the work has concentrated on the further training of professional actors and directors . From 1995 to 2009, the GITIS acting and directing class was carried out in cooperation with the Russian Academy for Theater Arts (GITIS, Moscow ) as a three-year modular training course in parallel in Germany, Italy, Sweden, Norway and Greece with European partner organizations, since 1996 supplemented by laboratories, Summer academies, festivals and performances. A large number of the activities were made possible by the European cultural programs Kaleidoskop , Kultur 2000 and Kultur 2007-2013 in numerous European countries and realized in cooperation with European theater centers, academies, national ITI centers as well as cities and municipalities. In the course of these multi-year cooperation projects on specific topics, the research aspect has increasingly come to the fore.

In the applied theater research, exercises and training methods are practically tested through the mediation and continuously further developed. A central feature of the way of working is the international teaching team, which has been built up by the artistic director over the years and operates flexibly in different compositions.

Special programs for acting teachers and theater pedagogues encourage methodological reflection and aim to improve the professional image of teachers at drama schools. In addition, the World Theater Training Institute aims to contribute to innovation in education in general. Conventional teaching formats and their content are questioned and new ideas are presented at specialist conferences and tested in practice.

Jurij Alschitz's research results are published in his handbooks on the art of acting, self-published by ars incognita and in specialist publishers (Brazil, Italy, Mexico, Russia and others).

Research projects (selection)

  • Since 1999, the international festival for methods of theater training METHODIKA has brought together theater professionals in different countries every two years in order to exchange and discuss different training methods for teaching and rehearsal practice.
  • Since 2011, the ITI project The World Theater Training Library has been examining educational traditions around the world in their current practice. New rehearsal, teaching and training methods are being developed collectively in international laboratories and made available to the international theater community.
  • 2012–2014 the first course Teaching Professional Theater Practice was realized as a prototype in cooperation with CUT - Centro Universitario de Teatro at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico .
  • Hybrid Theater Training: since 2017 the institute has maintained an online learning platform on which innovative formats and content can be tested. The focus is on researching specific tasks for self-education and the development of creativity, as well as on the connection of online training and practical rehearsal work. The training platform enables worldwide access to professional knowledge and personal contact with an international team of teachers.
  • ALthattheatre : Jurij Alschitz develops a quantum pedagogy for the training and further education of actors. The innovative impulse training is derived from resonance and wave theory. The focus is on the principle of self- education and the development to homo creativus .

Memberships in other organizations

The World Theater Training Institute AKT-ZENT is the office of the European Association for Theatreculture. Parallel to the founding of AKT-ZENT International Theater Center Berlin, Jurij Alschitz opened further theater centers together with artists from the respective country, which merged in 2000 to form the European Association for Theatreculture.

  • PROTEI - Progetti Teatrali Internazionali (Italy 1995)
  • ECUT - Europeiskt Skaninaviskt centrum för utforskning av teater (Sweden 1994–1998)
  • SCUT - Skaninaviskt centrum för utforskning av teater (Norway and Sweden 1998)
  • Koïnè langages transartistiques (France 2003)

The World Theater Training Institute AKT-ZENT is the Research Center of the International Theater Institute ITI - World Organization for the Performing Arts

  • Member of the ITI / UNESCO Network for Higher Education in the Performing Arts
  • Member of the German Center of the International Theater Institute
  • Member of the regional association for the free performing arts Berlin eV

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Theater Training Institute AKT-ZENT / ITI. In: https://www.iti-worldwide.org . International Theater Institute, accessed November 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Jurij Alschitz in conversation with Dr. Jörg Bochow: I would like to release the feeling of the author in the actors and directors . In: Christa Hasche, Eleonore Kalisch, Holger Kuhla, Wolfgang Mühl-Benninghaus (eds.): Theater on the threshold of the 21st century . Berlin theater studies. tape 10 . Vistas, Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-89158-347-0 , pp. 175-183 .
  3. ↑ Sergei A. Issayev in conversation with Dr. Jörg Bochow: The Russian theater tradition - ballast or wealth? In: Christa Hasche, Eleonore Kalisch, Holger Kuhla, Wolfgang Mühl-Benninghaus (eds.): Theater on the threshold of the 21st century . Berlin theater studies. Volume 10. Volume 10 . Vistas, Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-89158-347-0 , pp. 185-191 .
  4. ^ The New Face of the Acting Teacher. In: http://kultur.creative-europe-desk.de . Creative Europe Desk, accessed on November 16, 2019 (German).
  5. ^ World Theater Training Institute. Videos, description. In: East European Performing Arts Platform. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
  6. ^ Jurij Alschitz: The Path to a Holistic Theater. World Theater Training Institute AKT-ZENT, accessed on November 14, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Tobias Biancone, Christine Schmalor: AKT-ZENT Research Center of ITI. World Theater Training Library / Laboratory. In: The Director General's Report 2011-2014. International Theater Institute ITI, pp. 118-119 , accessed on November 14, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Jurij Alschitz: A new Face of the Acting Teacher. World Theater Training Institute AKT-ZENT, accessed on November 14, 2019 .
  9. ^ Hybrid Theater Training Platform
  10. ↑ Tobias Biancone: The Director General's Report. November 2014 - April 2017. International Theater Institute ITI, 2017, pp. 233-235 , accessed on November 14, 2019 .