Demidov 10 Day Online Introductory Intensive with Andrei Malaev-Babel

Demidov Online Intensive with Andrei Malaev-Babel

Receive an introduction to the Demidov School of Acting or go back to the basics of Organic Technique under the tutelage of Professor Malaev-Babel, the leading specialist, worldwide, in the Demidov School.

INTENSIVE ONE

May 3 – 7 

&

May 10 – 14

TIMES

6pm to 9pm (UK, GMT)

1pm to 4pm (East Coast USA, EST)

10am to 1pm (West Coast USA, PST)

COST

£450

520 Euro

US$620

Participants from outside the UK please contact us at [email protected] for payment details.

During these introductory online intensives, participants will train in the Culture of Creative Freedom, at the root of Demidov Organic Acting Technique. The Intensives will feature Demidov’s signature etudes (improvisational exercises with given text).

Demidov etudes spontaneously evoke circumstances, character and relationships. They stimulate actors’ unpredictability and emotional richness, and instigate free flow of subconscious creativity.

Intensive participants will study techniques intrinsic to the Art of Living Onstage:

• Intimate process of character inception
• The art of inexact (or creative) repetition
• Demidov’s unique method of evoking circumstances in the space
• Techniques of Creative Passivity (surrender) and Perception (truly seeing and hearing)

Things to note:

• Space is limited to 12 participants
• Training conducted in English, online via Zoom
• For actors, directors and acting teachers

About the workshop

The Organic Technique is rooted in the culture of creative freedom. As founding Director of the Moscow Art Theatre’s School, and one of the three original teachers of the Stanislavsky System, Demidov uncovered the professional secrets of the great tragedians, such as Eleonora Duse, Tommaso Salvini and Ira Aldridge.

The Demidov Organic Acting Technique puts actors in touch with their own creative individuality by teaching them to recognise and follow their artistic instincts. Improvisational text etudes, at the heart of the technique, stimulate spontaneity and emotional richness in actors, instigating the free flow of subconscious creativity.

The Demidov technique is aimed at developing independent actor-creators, capable of generating their own work, and serving as an equal collaborator to the director. The workshop will introduce the participants to the basic principles of the Demidov technique and to some of its chief cultures, such as freedom, emptiness and creative calm.

Fundamentals of the Demidov Technique

• The essence of the Demidov technique is rooted in the culture of creative freedom. The Demidov School teaches actors how to listen to their own creative individuality, while following artistic instincts
• The Demidov internal technique cleanses the channels of actors’ perception, stimulating an unhindered flow of subconscious creativity
• The Demidov “etudes” foster an actors’ spontaneity and emotional responsiveness. They develop a performer’s readiness to surrender to the given circumstances and to fully immerse in character
• The Demidov School cultivates a habit of independent creativity, both in acting homework, and in rehearsals. It trains the actor who can become an equal collaborator to the director, and co-creator of the performance

About Andrei Malaev-Babel

Professor Andrei Malaev-Babel is the world-leading specialist in the Demidov School. During the last decade, he practically recreated the Demidov training at his Florida Acting Studio and introduced it to the US, Russia, Europe, Brazil and China.

Trained as a director at Vakhtangov Theatre Institute, Moscow, Andrei is the Head of Acting and Professor of Theatre at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training in Sarasota, Florida. He is a member of the international faculty and board of MICHA, the Michael Chekhov Association in New York City and on the advisory board of Stanislavsky Research Centre, UK. He is also a member of the International Scientific Committee for Arti Dello Spettacolo-Performing Arts (Italy).

Since 1997, Andrei has served as the Producing Artistic Director for the Stanislavsky Theatre Studio (STS), an award-winning company and conservatory in Washington, DC. He was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award as an Outstanding Director for his production of Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot. He is also the author/editor of The Vakhtangov Sourcebook (Routledge, 2011) and Yevgeny Vakhtangov: A Critical Portrait (Routledge, 2012). In 2016, he published (with Margarita Laskina) for the first time in a Routledge collection of Demidov’s books in one volume, entitled Nikolai Demidov: Becoming an Actor Creator.

Andrei Malaev-Babel is in demand internationally; conducting workshops, presenting and performing at venues, such as Stanford University; Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (St. Petersburg); the Latin American Film Festival and Teatro Escola Macunaíma (Brazil); Rose Bruford College (UK); The Shanghai Theatre Academy (China); and The Odessa Philharmonic (Ukraine).

Professor Malaev-Babel is Head of the International Demidov Association, of which Demidov Studio London is a chapter, alongside Demidov School Moscow.

This 10 day intensive is open to actors, teachers, directors and all those interested in the actor’s creative process