Two-week format
For the past four years the annual Kalamata Drama International Summer School has provided a three-week integrated programme of intensive training led by a team of eminent tutors-practitioners.
This summer, responding to the demand for intensive specialised training in advanced practice, KaDISS 2023 will take a two-week format providing a dual-themed engagement to stabilise the foundation of the performer’s skills and enhance their development. The workshops are aimed at the professional actor, live art performer, singer, or advanced student of Drama School or Conservatory.
KaDISS 2023 will take the form of two separate intensive one-week workshops with leading exponents in their specialist fields. The workshops can be applied for and attended independently by selecting one only, or consecutively, by selecting both. Each week provides skills for advanced development for the performer at all levels of training or professional work.
Adrienne Thomas
VOICE ALIVE!
21-26 August
10.00-16.00
Participants of this unique workshop will explore paths to finding their authentic voice and feed this exploration at all times into practical work with text, both lyric and dramatic. Applying the motto, ‘out of the head and into the body and the voice’ they will discover how increased physical and vocal freedom enhances imaginative freedom. And through a series of playful exercises on texts from William Shakespeare, through language they will experience a deeper, more intensely visceral connection to a character.
Dan Sherer
IMPROVISATION INTO TEXT
28 August – 02 September
10.00-16.00
In this intensive week-long programme, participants will work with the principles of Improvisation and Active Analysis to invest personally in the circumstances of Shakespearean Scenes, before bringing those discoveries to the original texts. Our aim is to help the student arrive at the deep poetry and the characters of these timeless plays through imaginative immersion and experience that is uniquely their own.
These specialist intensive workshops will allow the participant to immerse in vocal practice for the stage and in acting practice though improvisation, while re-examining and expanding a broad palette of their performing skills. Both weeks will be underpinned by engagement with and exploration of Shakespeare’s text led by Andrew Visnevski.
* For full biographies of the tutor-practitioners please go to: heading / BIOGS
Participation fee for one week: 600€
Participation fee for weeks one and two: 1.000€
* Find the application under the heading / Application.
KaDISS 2023
Summer Training in Greece
The KaDISS 2022 participants gave outstanding feedback at completion of their course. Apart from intensive daily training on the stage of the Cultural Centre of Kalamata, they had benefitted from some unexpected learning experiences, such as a masterclass on the performer’s stagecraft in the open-air theatre of the Kastro of Kalamata, time spent swimming in the sea together with the horses of the Drougas Riding School of Kalamata, while the final class and presentation of their work took place in the small Hellenic amphitheatre in Ancient Messene, an archaeological site of world importance.
KaDISS 2023 looks to offer similar unique learning experiences.
The Kalamata Drama International Summer School, established five years ago in the seaside resort of Kalamata, provides a full post-training development programme for the theatre performer.
The participant acquires a solid technical base in embodiment of poetic text and a rigorous personal vocal and physical discipline through revelatory approaches to character interpretation and ensemble sensibility. The programme is led by teacher-practitioners with an international reputation for their highly individual creative work and outstanding contribution to actor training, primarily at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
We are very happy to announce that for the KaDISS 2023, the teaching team will be joined by Dan Sherer. A former student at RADA and at the National Theatre Studio, Dan now teaches at both institutions, is also a theatre director, dramaturg and writer. His presence offers participants a rare opportunity of engaging with Active Analysis and Improvisational Practice, while immersing in the embodiment of Shakespeare’s text.
Theatre Alive! grant /
Theatre Alive! is offering a grant of 1000 GBP to an MA or PhD researcher in theatre and performance, who wishes to combine academic study with practical training and would benefit from travelling in Greece, engaging with the history, art and culture.
The grant is towards costs of travel, accommodation and board to attend, free of charge, the three-week Kalamata International Summer School 2023.
Your application should include a detailed CV, a résumé of your research studies and a statement of why this opportunity would be a positive contribution to your professional aspirations.
Applications deadline: Monday, June 18th 2023
Please send your application to: info@kalamatadrama.com
As Subject to your email, write: Theatre Alive! KaDISS 2023 scholarship
