LENARD PETIT
stage director, acting teacher
Lenard is an actor/director who resides in New York City. He has been working in the the theater for thirty years collaborating with other artists to create original works for the stage , cinema, and television. He has directed plays and performance pieces on and off Broadway and in as well as out of the United States. As an actor he has performed in some works of such notable directors as Julie Taymor, Meredith Monk, Richard Foreman, Ping Chong, and many others. Mr. Petit is the Artistic Director of The Michael Chekhov Acting Studio. As one of a handful of teacher students trained by the original members of Michael Chekhov’s Theater School his knowledge of the technique coupled with his gifts have brought him to be recognized as one of the foremost teachers of this technique in the world.
As a member of the international Michael Chekhov Association, he has been invited to teach Master classes at the Moscow Art Theater, The International School for Film and Television in Munich, Helsinki University, as well as acting workshops in Denmark, Amsterdam, Madrid, Berlin, Zurich, London , Riga, and Irkutsk Siberia. For the past 14 years he has been teaching Chekhov Technique in the MFA Acting program at Rutgers University.
SLAVA KOKORIN
stage director, acting teacher
Slava Kokorin (Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Kokorin) has directed and guided many theatre troupes in the world. Since 1982, Slava has worked with a particular kind of theatre pedagogy – acting based on the artistic principles of Michael Chekhov. Today, Slava is regarded as one of the most valuable teachers who have the capacity to realize the legacy of Michael Chekhov. In 2009, Slava was the Stanislavski Prize winner in nomination of “The best theatre pedagogue.”
Slava Kokorin was born on May 30, 1944 in Ulan-Ude, the capital city of the Republic of Buryatia in Russia. Slava graduated from the Belarusian Institute of Art and Theatre in Minsk (1967), the St. Petersburg Academy of Theatre Arts (1973), and the Russian Institute of Cinematography (1975). As a stage director, Slava has staged over 100 productions in countries including Russia, Denmark, Poland, Germany, Estonia, Slovenia, Austria, Croatia, Italy, Great Britain and the United States (Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center).
And on several occasions he has been awarded “Best Theatre Performance” and “Best Theatre Director” of the National Theatre Award’s “Golden Mask” (Moscow), and at The International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People (ASSITEJ) with “Burn, Burn, My Star” by Yuli Dunsky.
Slava Kokorin continues to participate annually at the International Michael Chekhov Conferences in Moscow and Berlin and as a leading member of the Presidium at The International Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA). Slava has been invited to teach all over the world in countries including France, Belgium, Indonesia, Germany, Switzerland, USA, Cuba, Senegal, Poland and many more. In addition, from 1993 to 200, Slava organized the Baykal Theatre School with the participation of trainees from Russia, US, Spain, Japan, Denmark, Holland, England, Finland, and Germany.
MARJOLEIN BAARS
stage director, acting teacher
works as an actress, clown, playwright, teacher, director, coach and curriculum designer. She is artistic director of tiny hero PRODUCTIONS, member of the board MICHA (Michael Chekhov Association), founder and member of MCE (Michael Chekhov Europe) and Michael Chekhov Center NL (MCCNL) and artistic director of De Stichting Koffer and co-creator at Panassembla.
Marjolein creates original theatre work and gives workshops, master classes and performances in The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, England, Italy, the United States, Lithuania, Russia and Australia since 1986. She specialised in the Michael Chekhov acting technique and clowning and has worked this way since 1992. She finished her post graduate studies Art in Society in 2005 and created projects and trainings for artists and people in other working fields (like people living and working with dementia) in which art and society meet and the creative and dramatic principles are applied to empower and to stimulate leadership in people. She loves working with people, questions and obstacles that address creativity, acting, drama and imagination in the broadest sense. The ‘creative indi-viduality’, as Michael Chekhov addresses it, is central in her work.
BORIS RABEY
stage and film director, acting teacher
Boris Rabey graduated from The Russian University of Theatre Arts (GITIS) and from the State Institute of Culture, Moscow. Specialization: Directing of the Dramatic Theatre and Performance Pedagogy, under the direction of Maria Knebel (Stanislavski’s last assistant). Artistic Director of the « Masterskaya » Theatre (Moscow).
He has been invited to teach Master Classes and has staged over 30 productions in countries including Russia, France and Belgium.
He has been invited to teach at the Conservatory of Liège and at the Royal International Summer Academy. He regularly teaches at The Russian University of Theatre Arts .
Since 2006, he has directed over 10 serial dramas for Russian TV.
CATHERINE DELASALLE
voice teacher, Feldenkrais teacher
Songwriter and performer born in Paris. She travels a lot, and has many jobs before starting a career as an ambassador for French songs in Flanders. Alongside her career as a songwriter, she is interested in the voice in all its forms, and participates in many experimental projects. For many years she has been putting poetry into music and writing her own lyrics. The meeting with the Feldenkrais method offers him the ideal framework to develop his experiences, to continue to evolve and to start teaching. She has taught at the Lassaad International Theater School, at the Brussels Conservatory of Music, and conducts numerous workshops and workshops in Belgium and abroad.
VLADIMIR BOUCHLER
stage director, acting teacher
Director and teacher Vladimir Bouchler, has been developing the methodology for 15 years to educate not just the actor, but the actor-director-producer, where the skills of Actor, Director and Producer blend harmoniously. The unique method is based on a combination of -the theatrical techniques (such as “Character and characterization” of Michael Chekhov, “Study on unique style and form” of Eugeny Vakhtangov, “Paradox of the actor” of Denis Diderot), -brilliant discoveries of psychology of the XX century (“Theory of Attitude and Set” of Uznadze, “Psychodrama” of Jacob L. Moreno, “The Art of Loving” of Erich Fromm) and -application of Fine Art analyze while creating a style of performance.
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Di3N2pQB4
Wikipédia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Bouchler
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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.