Photo: Konstanze Meindl
English / Deutsch

Basic Principles of Acting Sex and Violence

This course can be understood as a follow-up to the interactionability course. Based on a socio-sensorimotor understanding, we now turn to the basic building blocks of human interaction which are the necessary functional nucleus for both violent scenes and sex scenes, and from which both can be developed. Artistic maturity of the actor is a fundamental principle of Western theatre that we defend. Therefore, in this course we will develop a small toolbox with which the actor can develop the scene independently, unsupervised and in active responsible physical negotiation with the playing partner in an explorative and improvising way. In this way, we deliberately offer a liberty-based alternative to the top-down regulated, fully choreographed, safety-centred approaches that are common today, especially in sex scenes. One of the reasons for this is that it is so much more fun.

“You simply acquire a lot of courage to do things on stage that I wouldn’t even have dared to imagine a few years ago out of shame. Simply the inhibition threshold to do something crazy and strange on stage has totally changed. I would even say that it has probably changed the most in me.”
“She not only sees the actor, but more importantly, the human. Her customised teaching and her human approach have shaped me in my work as an actor and still accompany me today.”

 /