Acting

Often on stage, we're so preoccupied with ourselves—our lines, ideas, and concerns about how we look—that the partner next to us becomes just a person waiting for their cue.

We hear them, but we don't truly notice them.

This masterclass is about attention. About shifting the focus from yourself to the person in front of you and truly seeing them. Adjusting your radar to maximum and learning to notice what's happening here and now.

In practice, we will:

notice the slightest changes in your partner: a glance, a pause, a sigh, a change in state;

allow these changes to influence us and change the scene right in the moment;

move away from preconceived solutions and learn to respond to the real person in front of you;

seek genuine connection instead of a mechanical exchange of lines.

For whom:

Actors, improvisers, and anyone who wants to connect with their partner more subtly, perform more vividly, and build honest relationships on stage.

After all, the most interesting things in a scene often happen not in the text, but between people.

The class will be led by Ivan Annenkov, a theater and film actor, a graduate of GITIS (O.E. Menshikov's workshop), who performed at the M.N. Ermolova Theater.