XIV International Theatre Summer Academy 2024 in Italy

self-preparation – the secret to success

The International Theatre Summer Academy in short:

♣  Summertime in Italy – hot days in cool mountains
♣  Off the beaten track – where the individualists meet
♣  Self-preparation: a subject that is not taught in any academy
♣  Meet Jurij Alschitz and his International Team of Teachers
♣  Get daily acting training together
♣  Workshops for acting, directing and teaching
♣  Experience International encounters of all ages
♣  We celebrate life as artists together!

With its annual International Theatre Summer Academy, the World Theatre Training Institute offers a supplement to drama school programmes and therefore offers both students and professional theatre professionals a unique opportunity for personal advanced training.

The subject of self-preparation, which is closely related to self-education and ultimately self-creation, is the central tool for any successful person in today’s society, especially in the arts. Why is self-preparation still not taught at drama schools? The issue is largely neglected and is considered more of a “private matter”, which lends it a mysterious flair.

The International Theatre Summer Academy invites actors, directors, theatre pedagogues and drama teachers to intensively explore and learn the wide range of techniques and methods for self-preparation at the highest professional level.

For over 20 years, Jurij Alschitz has been developing various techniques and approaches on how actors can prepare for a role / play / project in a meaningful and independent way in order to be able to meet the director at eye level on the first day at rehearsal or on set. In times of collective and less hierarchical forms of work, the actor as creative artist and author of the role is increasingly coming to the fore. In times of short production periods, effective self-preparation is a question of artistic survival.

However, the same applies to directors: in order to work professionally with actors, you need perfect, all-encompassing preparation with a methodical toolkit. Only on this basis can the talent and fantasy of the director unfold. Theatre pedagogues and drama teachers ultimately need the same instruments for teaching, rehearsing and creating performances. Apart from this, directors, theatre pedagogues and drama teachers must learn how to apply self-preparation methods in a meaningful way, but above all how to guide them. Dormant here is an incredible potential for the collective creative process that has hardly been discovered to date.

The two courses for Acting and Directing of the XIV International Theatre Summer Academy
will be led by Dr. Jurij Alschitz, Christine Schmalor and Riccardo Palmieri

All details on the content of the courses, accommodation, travel and application can be found at the link below.