Theatre jam
This is the laboratory of what is called object theatre - a theatre, in which the main thing on the stage is not a person, but an object, a light, a music landscape - all together.
Participants are encouraged to bring along a few important for them objects, whether it's an item filled with memories or a interesting object found by chance - the main condition was the will to tell a story about them.
Together with participants we create theatre performances being grown up from the stories of objects they brought with, learning to think like the author of a performance, which means to combine the director's, the actor's, and the artistic view; to feel the polyphony of the elements that make up the whole; to use acting "transparency" - when you don’t need to "play", the image itself passes through you; to discover in oneself the most important talent - to tell stories.
Together with participants we create theatre performances being grown up from the stories of objects they brought with, learning to think like the author of a performance, which means to combine the director's, the actor's, and the artistic view; to feel the polyphony of the elements that make up the whole; to use acting "transparency" - when you don’t need to "play", the image itself passes through you; to discover in oneself the most important talent - to tell stories.
I run this laboratory in different cities for participants with different theatre background and I'm open for invitations. Each time object theatre method is really involving for the audience to turn on the creative mode and forget about fear of the stage. Moreover, this method allows to set improvisational performances to see the result at once.
That is the video representing theatre jam at Zheleznogorsk, Russia, 2023 for Transformation festival. The participants were 3 girls different age and life background. The topic for improvisation was "home or house".
And that is another part of theatre jam - live in St. Petersburg, Russia, 2024. Participants were encouraged to create a community of objects and were improvising on the topic of coming back in time.
