Michael Chekhov’s technique is an imaginative approach to experiencing the truth of the moment, which enables actors to access the creative individuality within. The psychophysical exercises deliver inspirational, organic means to achieve one's highest artistic aims. They develop the consciousness of a slight relationship between soul and body, opening the actor to impulses and images. These images spread inside the body and become “visible” to the audience through external actions. During the workshop, the participant experiences joy and ease in living on stage here and now, and discovers the true art of improvising.

"Transformation is what every actor consciously or unconsciously longs for."  Michael Chekhov

The training provides the keys for:

• achieving a high level of presence, creativity and energy on stage
• producing a performance that exerts the power of fascination
• experiencing the joy of the presence of mindfulness by existing intensely in his/her body and its sensations
• leaving one’s comfort zones to experience mystery and the unknown in a performance
• achieving a new relationship to the stage, a relationship that is fuller, and  more open and creative.

NATALIE YALON

Artistic director, actress, acting teacher. First Prize in Drama from the Royal Conservatory of Liège, and a graduate in Philosophy from the ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles).  She specialises instage productionand Russian theatrical pedagogics in Russia: in Moscow’s Gitis (the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts) and the Vakhtanghov Institute; her teachers are Vladimir Skoritz, Andrei Droznin, Boris Rabey, Slava Kokorin.  She is also following an intensive training programme at the Michael Chekhov Acting Studio in New York with Lenard Petit.

PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS

Contact and admission : studiochekhov(at)gmail.com
Phone number : +32 475 36 12 74

Schedule : from 10 am to 5 pm, depending on the program.

Location: Cellule 133, 133a avenue Ducpétiaux, 1060 Brussels.

Price : 350€.

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This workshops offers a dive into receptivity, mindfulness and the resonance of the body in movement, to achieve a magnetic presence beyond any technique, in a total openness to the here-and-now. Opening the way to an intense life of sensations, it develops a high level of vibration, creativity and freedom on stage, in the joy and mystery of the present.

Claude Magne discovered dance during a trip to South America, where he met the Indians of Amazonia, with whom he learned ritual dances and the sacred practices of trance and ecstasy. After this initiatory journey, he followed the teachings of several masters of contemporary dance, became a dancer, then a choreographer and teacher dealing with different audiences, in several countries. In the interrogation of the living phenomenon and the incarnation, he practices Zen meditation and yoga, collaborates in transdisciplinary conferences and writes various books on dance or meditation.

Practical informations

Time : from 10 am till 5 pm.

Location : Cellule 133, 133a Avenue Ducpétiaux, 1060 Brussels, Saint-Gilles.

Price : 350€.

Registration is now open for our Comprehensive Training : Acting in Mindfulness January-March 2026.

The course is structured as a series of 11 week sessions or intensives. Each intensive meets five times a week. Our classes are given mostly in French.

This multidisciplinary training develops a 360° performance art. It includes intensive sessions of acting, voice, singing, dance, movement, butoh, clowning and performance. Favoring the path of feeling, it offers intuitive approaches to presence and creation, favoring the emergence of a new, trans-disciplinary, deeply connected and vibrant art of the living. The different modules stimulate vitality, consciousness, collective intelligence and the actualization of the potentialities of being. The training is aimed at practitioners of the performing arts of all levels, and at all actors and explorers of the present times.

OBJECTIVES

The training provides the keys to:

-Developing your stage presence and artistic language;

-Daring to play, create, and perform from your inner truth;

-Achieving a high level of creativity and energy;

-Fully inhabiting your body;

-Becoming a witness to your sensations, emotions, and thoughts;

-Developing listening and respect for your needs and limits.

-Experiencing sensitive, collective, and transformative experiences;

-Creating resonance between yourself, yourself, and the world;

-Leaving comfort zones to experience the mystery and the unknown in performance;

-Developing a new relationship with the stage and with life, a more fulfilling, open, expressive, and imaginative one.

PRACTICAL DETAILS

LOCATION: Cellule 133, 133a Avenue Ducpétiaux, 1060 Brussels.

DATES: January 5 to March 27, 2026.

Break from February 16 to February 20, 2026.

HOURS: Monday to Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

PRICE: €3,300 including tax / 330 hours of classes.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Cover letter, portrait and full-length photo, contact information, date of birth, resume, and preliminary interview.

2026 INTENSIVE TRAINING SCHEDULE (tentative schedule to be confirmed later)

Week 1: January 5-9

Michael Chekhov Technique with Natalie Yalon

Week 2: January 12-16

Dance/Movement with Claude Magne

Week 3: January 19-23

Voice & Feldenkrais Technique with Catherine Delasalle

Week 4: January 26-30

Clown with Marjolein Baars

Week 5: February 2-6

Michael Chekhov Technique with Natalie Yalon

Week 6: February 9-13

Performance. M2 Teaching with Jenny Pino Madariaga

Week 7: February 16-20

Carnival Break

Week 8: February 23-27

Butoh with Quentin Chaveriat

Week 9: March 2-6

Michael Chekhov Technique with Natalie Yalon

Week 10: March 9-13

Dance/Movement with Claude Magne

Week 11: March 16-20

Michael Chekhov Technique with Natalie Yalon

Week 12: March 23-27

Preparation for Final Performances with Natalie Yalon

March 25 & 26: Workshop presentation evening for the public.