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Advanced Class 25/26

Date & Time
Fridays, Nov 25-Jul 26
18- 21h
Info event 30.08.25, 17h

Location
Musikquartier
Mariahilfer Straße 51
1060 Wien

Costs
€ 1700,-
Early Bird till 15.08.25:
€ 1530,-

Teacher
Anne Frütel

Language
German

Contact
office@humanacting.org
“Anne manages to make the most abstract things simple and understandable. She knows how to find a perfect step-by-step structure for the most complex acting content, which not only makes the learning process incredibly easy, but also the application and long-term retention of what has been learned!”
“What I liked most about your lessons is that you broke down the whole “mystique” that surrounds art.”
“What I have learned: Working independently.”

This demanding course is for people who already have previous acting knowledge and want to deepen it in a clear, ambitious and reflective way, in a new stage on the long road to mastery. It is expressly not suitable for people who are looking for quick solutions and shortcuts. The curriculum is a further development of the Advanced Class 23/24 curriculum, the goal of the course is artistic maturity.

At the center of the course is Edward Gordon Craig’s poetic concept of the “Über-Marionette”, a fictitious ideal actor whose shortcomings would never stand in the way of his artistic creation. Gordon Craig summed this up in a simple formula: “The Über-Marionette is the actor plus fire minus egoism”. In the course, we happily set about pursuing this ideal, and will, of course, inevitably encounter our own, much more succinct conditionalities. We put together individual toolboxes with which we can creatively build what could be, in confrontation with reality, with what actually is. And along the way, we get to know both the world and ourselves as part of the world as well as we can only know things that we have bumped into. We develop an image-in-action of ourselves that is operable. And the wonderful thing is that we don’t do all this theoretically, it happens directly in the theatrical creative process. As we build our scenes, we imperceptibly build ourselves as able actors, with able perception, thinking, feeling and acting and in able interaction with the world, the dramatic literature and our acting partners.

The course is guaranteed to be free of hollow acting phrases such as “you weren’t in it right” or “you need to want it more”. Instead, it offers functioning modern knowledge in a continuous dialogue between teacher and students and in a constant transition from practice to reflection and back.

The course comprises 100 teaching hours. In addition, there are at least 100 hours of independent work time for preparing lessons and working on assignments. There will also be readings: Dramatic literature from the classical canon from Sophocles to Brecht, central theoretical and theatre-philosophical texts, as well as short introductory texts on the scientific fields underlying drama (behavioral biology, evolutionary psychology, neuroscience and cognitive science, non-speculative social sciences).

In order to allow for individual development, there is an elastic curriculum, with minimum requirements that everyone must fulfill and, in addition, challenging tasks for those who want to and can do more. In the interests of the participants, the course concludes with a three-stage graded certificate, a top grade that is difficult to achieve and the option of failing the course. At the end of the course, there is a public performance of the scenes created.

Participants can take part in the Thursday Evening Class at a significantly reduced rate and in “Theater as a Practical Philosophy of Human Action” free of charge.

The decision to take part in the course is made on an individual basis. Information event on Sat, 30.08.25, 17h. Please register for the information event.

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