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Website/Social: www.terraincognitatheater.org

Individual or Collective?: Collective

If this is a collective, what is the name?: Terra Incognita Theater

About: Please tell us about your self. Some of our programs have benefits for art workers - please tell us if you are an artist and mention the most recent work/venue/space/residency where you have worked/developed your practice.: Founded in 1983 by veteran theater innovator and master teacher Polina Klimovitskaya, Terra Incognita creates original works of performance, springing from Ms. Klimovitskaya's Kinetic Mind Practice.

Background:: Actor, Performance Artist, Director

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PERCEPTIONS // About Technique

Posted on June 28, 2017 at 11:21am 0 Comments 2 Likes

When I direct, observe, and teach performers- I face the same paradoxical phenomena in all three situations. The necessity of technique and its stagnating damaging effect on the performer. The question then is “What is talent and the role of technique in training?” …

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PROCESS // Polina in Fragments: Transcriptions from a master's comments in class and rehearsal

Posted on April 20, 2014 at 7:00pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

Polina Klimovitskaya, master teacher and theater director, has for years been beset by requests that she write about acting. Having started studying with her in January of 2004 and joined her Terra Incognita Theater in 2005, I have been the recipient of a rare kind of apprenticeship. Among my duties has been penning the majority of the…