WORKSHOP


The focus of this workshop will be on the ways of collaboration between directors, actors, and dramaturges, and on the development of their imagination, creative skills, and talents in ensemble and/or individual work. The participants in the workshop will engage in and explore exercises based Joe Chaikin's aesthetics of sound and movement and will work on scenes from and based on Hamlet and Seagull. These scenes culminate in a creation of a small project for presentation at the end of the workshop. Working in a "laboratory" environment on creating their own work, directors will serve as their own dramaturges and actors and will explore for themselves their imaginative potential creating both non-verbal and verbal scenes based on classical models.

About Naum Panovski

As a theater director and dramaturge he has committed himself to exploring the art of directing from both a theoretical/aesthetic and practical perspective. His professional theatre experience, heavily influenced by his professors Carl Weber and Joseph Chaikin, includes professional theatre work as a director of more than 70 productions staged by theatres in Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia, Italy, Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Poland, France, and the U. S.  His recent productions include Uncle Maroje, performed at the renowned Dubrovnik Festival, and Women, War, Desert with Mira Furlan from ABC's "Lost". He is the author of two books: Theatre as a Weapon, and Directing Poiesis; and his writings have appeared in numerous publications worldwide.