December 12 - 20, 2017 
Leitring bei Leibnitz, Austria

If you are a practicing director at the start of your career or feel the need to refresh and refill your directing arsenal, IUGTE intensives offer a great chance to improve skills, to find new international network opportunities and collaboration. Share and exchange your ideas with colleagues from different parts of the world, gain new helpful tools and professional tips under the competent guidance of IUGTE experts.

IUGTE Directing intensives open the door towards unique professional development opportunities for directors - participation in collaboration projects and performance productions with professional actors at repertory theatres.

The workshop is open to practicing theatre directors working in various genres, techniques and styles interested to acquire reliable director's toolkit to create contemporary professional productions.

Ostrenko Method will introduce some of the effective techniques and approaches towards contemporary performance practice in the context and the circumstances of the short rehearsal time and multicultural aspect of creative team.

The programme includes the intensive practical training, lectures and discussions with the theatre director and teacher Sergei Ostrenko and the programme of IUGTE annual International Conference with performing arts teachers from different countries.

The training is designed as the multidisciplinary intensive lab with participation and practice together with performers from different techniques and countries. Multidisciplinarity and multiculturality is one of the most important priciples of IUGTE programs. In real life in professional practice directors always have to work and collaborate in a team of specialists. This means the ability to establish effective relationships with all colleagues involved in a production. This requires mutual understanding and particular art in today's changing world. Thus, IUGTE programs for directors provide a unique opportunity to practice in groups with performers and artists from various disciplines - choreographers, dancers, actors, etc. Such practice creates a "full circle", completeness, mutual exchange and complementarity, so valuable and unique in any creative process in the world of arts.

Detailed Program see here: http://www.iugte.com/projects/director

Several Scholarship are announced! See details: http://www.artuniverse.org/news