ATIS

Acting Techniques Intensive Seminar

(2012–17) was a framework for research and learning-teaching of the performer’s elementary and advanced skills, including:

being open to dialogue and sharing with others
integration of action, silence, sound, and speech
reacting precisely with the body and voice to impulses from partners, environment, texts, images, music as well as from the inner sphere of associations, imagination and memories.

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ATIS was addressed to those international artists, researchers and students who wished to deepen their understanding of human creativity and expression.

Between 2012 and 2017, six seminars were held at Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) in Poznań, three in Brzezinka (the Grotowski Institute’s forest location) and one at the Universidad de Playa Ancha in Valparaíso (Chile), together for more than 80 people from the following countries: Armenia, Chile, Cyprus, England, France, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Spain, Turkey, and the United States. In addition, we conducted several shorter work sessions in Tehran, at the University of Kent in Canterbury, at the Grotowski Institute’s Studio na Grobli in Wrocław, and at AMU.

The ATIS seminars resulted in the creation of, among others, the acting miniatures such as Abel and Kain by Mohammad Reza Aliakbari and Samaneh Zandinejad from Tehran and Veronica’s Double by Andrea Madrid Mora from Barcelona. The seminar also became an incubator for the solo piece Small House for the Dead, created by Csongor Köllő from the Shoshin Theatre Association (Romania) in collaboration with Grzegorz Ziółkowski. This performance – based on texts by Salvatore Quasimodo and Tadeusz Różewicz and performed with live accompaniment by Soma Salat-Zakariás from the Little Light Consort (Switzerland) – was presented in Romania and Poland in English and Hungarian. To this workline belonged the performative lecture Persona: Lucidity of the Performer’s Path, created by Claudio Santana Bórquez in the framework of the Performer Persona Project (Chile), who consulted his work with Grzegorz Ziółkowski in 2016.