International School

for devised theatre and performance

About Us

 

arthaus.berlin international school offers the international performing arts community full time training programs on postgraduate level in the field of devised theatre and performance. Practitioners with a background in theatre, performance, dance, circus arts, visual arts, design, architecture, directing, writing or choreographing, can enroll into one of our MA or MFA degree programs or complete the training with a professional development certificate. No matter which program our students decide to enroll, they all share a strong desire to create their own artistic work, in collaboration with others or on their own, and to take an active role in the development of the performing arts of today and tomorrow within their own culture and beyond.

Programs

MA Devised Theatre and Performance

 

The MA Devised Theatre and Performance is delivered by arthaus.berlin international school in collaboration with Rose Bruford College in London. Students on the program will complete the 1-year full time course in Devised Theatre and Performance at arthaus.berlin followed by an independent research project. For more detailed information from Rose Bruford about the one-year MA program please click here.

MFA Advanced Devising Practice

 

The MFA Advanced Devising Practice is delivered by arthaus.berlin international school and the Thomas Prattki Centre for Integral Movement and Performance Practice in collaboration with Rose Bruford College in London. Students on the program will complete the 1-Year full time course in Devised Theatre and Performance and the 1-year full-time course in Embodied Dramaturgy at arthaus.berlin followed by an independent research project. For more detailed information from Rose Bruford about the two-year MFA program please click here.

MFA Acting and Contemporary Performance Making

 

The Acting and Contemporary Performance Making MFA is offered by Columbia College in Chicago in collaboration with arthaus.berlin international school. Students on the program will complete their first year of training at Columbia College in Chicago, and during their second year they complete the 1-year fulltime course in Embodied Dramaturgy at arthaus.berlin. For more detailed information from Columbia College about this two-year MFA program please click here.

Devised Theatre and Performance Certificate

 

The 1-year full time program addresses practitioners with an already existing background in the performing arts interested in creating their own work in collaboration with others or on their own. Successful completion of the course leads to a certificate of completed studies at arthaus.berlin international school.

More information here.

Embodied Dramaturgy Certificate

 

The 1-year full time program addresses advanced practitioners in the field of the performing arts interested in the development of dramaturgical structures, which integrate and embody emerging cultural paradigms as well as one own personal process. Successful completion of the program leads to a certificate of completed studies at arthaus.berlin international school.

More information here.

Advanced Devising Practice Certificate

 

The 2-year full time program combines completion of the two 1-year courses in Devised Theatre and Performance and Embodied Dramaturgy. Successful completion of both programs leads to a certificate of completed studies at arthaus.berlin. For more information about each of the two 1-year programs visit the respective webpages.

Integral Movement and Performance Practice MA/MFA/Certificate

The Integral Movement and Performance Practice MA/MFA at arthaus.berlin / Thomas Prattki Centre in collaboration with Rose Bruford College addresses advanced practitioners in the performing, healing and educational arts, who wish to deepen their research into the practices of embodiment, Jungian and post-Jungian concepts on personal growth, an exploration of mythologies and shamanic traditions from around the world, studies of the neurosciences, as well as a regular practice of creating performative projects throughout the program.

The program is offered as a 3 year part-time MA program or a 4 year MFA part-time program. Read more at the Thomas Prattki Centre website here.

Devised Theatre and Performance Certificate

The 1-year full time program addresses practitioners with an already existing background in the performing arts interested in creating their own work in collaboration with others or on their own. Successful completion of the course leads to a certificate of completed studies at arthaus.berlin international school.

More information here.

Embodied Dramaturgy Certificate

The 1-year full time Embodied Dramaturgy program addresses advanced practitioners in the field of the performing arts interested in the development of dramaturgical structures, which integrate and embody emerging cultural paradigms as well as one own personal process. Successful completion of the program leads to a certificate of completed studies at arthaus.berlin international school.

More information here.

Advanced Devising Practice Certificate

The 2-year full time program combines completion of the two 1-year courses in Devised Theatre and Performance and Embodied Dramaturgy. Successful completion of both programs leads to a certificate of completed studies at arthaus.berlin. For more information about each of the two 1-year programs visit the respective webpages.

MA Devised Theatre and Performance

The MA Devised Theatre and Performance is delivered by arthaus.berlin international school in collaboration with Rose Bruford College in London. Students on the program will complete the 1-year full time course in Devised Theatre and Performance at arthaus.berlin followed by an independent research project. For more detailed information from Rose Bruford about the one-year MA program please click here.

MFA Advanced Devising Practice

The MFA Advanced Devising Practice is delivered by arthaus.berlin international school and the Thomas Prattki Centre for Integral Movement and Performance Practice in collaboration with Rose Bruford College in London. Students on the program will complete the 1-Year full time course in Devised Theatre and Performance and the 1-year full-time course in Embodied Dramaturgy at arthaus.berlin followed by an independent research project. For more detailed information from Rose Bruford about the two-year MFA program please click here.

MFA Acting and Contemporary Performance Making

The Acting and Contemporary Performance Making MFA is offered by Columbia College in Chicago in collaboration with arthaus.berlin international school. Students on the program will complete their first year of training at Columbia College in Chicago, and during their second year they complete the 1-year fulltime course in Embodied Dramaturgy at arthaus.berlin. For more detailed information from Columbia College about this two-year MFA program please click here.

MA/MFA Integral Movement and Performance Practice

The Integral Movement and Performance Practice MA/MFA at arthaus.berlin / Thomas Prattki Centre in collaboration with Rose Bruford College addresses advanced practitioners in the performing, healing and educational arts, who wish to deepen their research into the practices of embodiment, Jungian and post-Jungian concepts on personal growth, an exploration of mythologies and shamanic traditions from around the world, studies of the neurosciences, as well as a regular practice of creating performative projects throughout the program.

The program is offered as a 3 year part-time MA program or a 4 year MFA part-time program. Read more at the Thomas Prattki Centre website here.

Any questions? Contact us, we are happy to help!

Our Team

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Faculty

Valentina Bordenave

 

Valentina Bordenave is a freelance dancer, choreographer and certified Alexander Technique teacher.  

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She graduated from the Folkwang University in Essen, Germany. With over 20 years of experience as a dancer and movement teacher,  Valentina has been actively researching the integration of mechanics and poetry of the body. Her work has a strong focus on the body support system, spatial and energetic awareness, intense physicality and utmost sensitivity.
As a performer, Valentina has worked with the choreographers Mark Sieczkarek and Editta Braun among others, and in 2014 she founded the international Collective ANDERPLATZ with nine other actors and dancers.

Read about her new training at her website  www.unfoldmethod.com

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Cat Gerrard

 

Cat is a performance-maker, storyteller, director and teacher from London. She trained at Drama Studio London and LISPA.

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Cat has toured Europe with solo work and with various puppetry, physical theatre and storytelling ensembles, including Theatre Témoin and Impronta Theater. She is Artistic Director of storytelling company TailSpin.

She has been exploring the depths and heights of voice, text and telling – as a practitioner and a teacher – since 2010, colliding her cross-arts interests with a movement towards wholing.

www.catgerrard.com

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Ariel Gutiérrez

 

Originally from Buenos Aires, Ariel has a background in international politics, Literature and Performing Arts. He studied at the Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq in 1996 and joined LISPA in 2011, where he completed the Advanced Devising Practice program as well as the pedagogical training.

- read more

An active collaborator with companies in the US, Europe and Latin America, he also holds a PhD in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of Miami with an emphasis on Performance. His dissertation “Scenic Landscapes: The theater in the global city” explores the relation between globalization, theater and non-conventional performance spaces.

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Rachel Karafistan

 

Rachel is a British performer, teacher, academic and director with over 25 years of experience of working professionally as a theatre maker. She is the founder of Cosmino Productions (www.cosmino.org) which she runs with her partner and long term Blue Man, Kuba Pierzchalski.

- read more

Rachel is currently touring her latest solo performance Dreams Die Hard, which was inspired by the wartime diary of her Grandmother. Rachel trained with Odin Teatret, Philippe Gaulier and Frankie Armstrong and worked as an actor with internationally acclaimed Polish company, Teatr Biuro Podróży. As a director she has created performances with, among others, Greenwich Theatre, Northampton & Leeds Universities and the State Theatre of Salzburg. She is currently an External Examiner at East 15 Acting School in the UK. In 2001 she completed her PhD research into shamanic dimensions within contemporary theatre practice and has offered ‘From the Shaman to the Actor’ workshops often in collaboration with renowned author, Brian Bates. Rachel is relieved that after so many years of making theatre, it is still the greatest thrill imaginable.

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Thomas Prattki

 

Thomas is the founder of arthaus.berlin, an international creative hub for theatre makers from around the world. 

- read more

He has been the pedagogical director of the Ecole Jacques Lecoq, before creating in 2003 the London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA). In 2018 he creates arthaus.berlin, which hosts the international school of theatre and performance makers, an international workshop and research space and the Thomas Prattki Centre for Integral Movement and Performance Studies.

As a performer he has toured the world with Mummenschanz, a world renowned company combining movement, mask, puppetry and the visual arts. He has directed, taught and lectured for the last three decades in over 30 different countries, pursuing his interest in the practice of Embodiment in art and life.

His most important reference point next to the pedagogy of Jacques Lecoq is the strongly Jungian and Zen based work of Maria Hippius and Karlfried Graf Duerckheim. His most important teacher is currently his 6 month old daughter. 

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Kelley Soul

 

Kelley is a facilitator, performer, art-maker and collaborator, interested in cross-disciplinary and multi-modal approaches.

- read more

As an actor she has performed with a number of US-based theatre companies, devising experimental work, whilst working professionally as an arts-in-education activist. She has an MFA in Actor Created Physical Theatre from Naropa University (USA), completed in partnership with LISPA, and a Certificate of Advanced Post Graduate Studies (Expressive Arts in Education) from the European Graduate School (Switzerland). She has taught with the LISPA/arthaus team since 2005. Kelley is also a visual artist, working primarily in acrylic, ink and watercolour. She has a deep interest in the development of sustainable creative practice, and the act of ‘making’ as a way of shaping the self and the world.

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Patrick Soul

 

Patrick is a multi-instrumentalist with over 25 years of experience both performing and writing in many different styles of music.

- read more

He has a Masters degree in Jazz Performance from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and sang for seven years with the London Vocal Project, performing with them at London’s best jazz clubs as well as at the Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican. Since 2008 Patrick has been encouraging and assisting theatre students at arthaus.berlin / LISPA to playfully explore and expand the musical possibilities available to them, individually and in the group, through mindful listening, rhythm games and improvisation.
He also composes electronic and acoustic music, with a particular interest in the layering of patterns, additive and subtractive process music, free improvisation and instant composition.

www.patricksoul.com

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Maria Eugenia Blanco

 

María’s journey to theatre began to manifest at the age of 22 when she worked as hospital clown in Buenos Aires. This early spark

- read more

led her deeper into clown technique and thus deeper into theatre itself. 

She studied clown with different teachers such as Julia Muzio, Jorge Costa, Gabriel Paez and Lucia Snitcofsky and studied for two years at the EMAD: Metropolitan School of Dramatic Arts (Buenos Aires) specializing herself in “Acting for Open Spaces”. 

Inspired by meeting mask-maker Alfredo Iriarte, Maria began her research into the different masks and techniques of mask making, and the pedagogies by Marcelo Savignone and Lecoq.

For nearly two years she lived in Bali, carving masks in wood and eventually forming part of a collaboration with her teacher, mentor and friend, I Made Sudirga, entering into the Balinese beliefs and conceptions of the world, and reshaping herself as person and artist.

When she returned to Argentina, she created workshops, which brought together Balinese masks and conceptions with occidental theatre.

In summer 2019 she completed the two-year postgraduate training at arthaus.berlin in performing arts, devising theatre, and embodied dramaturgy.

www.mariaeugeniablanco.com

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Philippa Hambly

 

Philippa is a performer, theatre maker and facilitator. After completing her first LISPA journey in 2013, she returned in 2016 to begin the IMPP program, resuming this in 2019 alongside a pedagogical journey.

- read more

She has worked with various UK companies, touring extensively with internationally acclaimed theatre company, 1927 (Golem/ Roots) and regularly collaborates with Irish company Brú Theatre. She has also made and toured several independent works. Having previously trained and worked as a nurse, she is involved with Chimera Network in developing theatre workshops with and for student nurses. 

She is deeply rooted in embodied practices and is curious about things that turn, and movements through, which might take us beyond.

www.piphambly.com

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Jelle De Wit

 

Originally from Belgium, Jelle is a performer, director, choreographer and teacher.

Jelle studied Social and Cultural Work, after which

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he headed to the ‘Fontys Academie voor Theater Tilburg, where he trained in directing and theater education. He has a BA in Theater from Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (The Netherlands) and an MA in Devised Theatre and Performance from the Rose-Bruford College in London and arthaus.berlin.

Over the years, he has taught a wide range of classes, covering subjects such as acting, expressive skills, public speaking, pitching, diction and diversity. In his own creations and performances, he explores the authenticity of his surroundings and natural human behaviour, offering up a poetic mirror to society. Currently, Jelle performs with CO-LAB, a collective of Latin American and European artists.

www.jelledewit.com

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Cath Johnson

 

Cath is a theatre maker, performer, director and facilitator. Her focus has been on collaboratively devised theatre, with the body as the centre of the creative process.

- read more

For eight years she was the artistic director of London based Glass-Eye Theatre, a company of international artists with whom she created, directed and performed, touring original works nationally and internationally.

She completed the Advanced Devising Practise training in 2010, returning to Arthaus in 2018 to study the MA in Integral Movement and Performance Praxis.

Since moving to Berlin in 2019, Cath has been deepening her interest in the alchemical, transformative possibilities of creative processes, from baking bread to making theatre.

- show less

Michelle Madsen

 

Michelle Madsen is an Argentine/Danish artist with a background in poetry, theatre and investigative journalism.

- read more

Michelle holds a degree in English Literature from the University of Oxford and a postgraduate certification in physical and devised theatre at LISPA (Arthaus) in Berlin. Her work investigates the disruption of prevailing mythologies through embodied play, with a focus on female-centred/queer narratives. She is co-director of award-winning theatre company, Bait (Cronivision, Kill The Princess) and is developing her own pedagogy based on integral movement (Axis Syllabus), clown (Pochinko/Clown Through Mask) and poetics. Her journalistic work has been broadcast on the BBC and she is co-host of Bears at a Picnic (Resonance FM). She is a guest lecturer/associate artist at City University and the University of Greenwich and is based in Berlin where she is completing a three-year cycle in Integral Movement and Performance Practice at the Thomas Prattki Centre.

- show less

Valentina Bordenave

Valentina Bordenave

Valentina Bordenave is a freelance dancer, choreographer and certified Alexander Technique teacher.  

- read more

She graduated from the  Folkwang University in Essen, Germany. With over 20 years of experience as a dancer and movement teacher,  Valentina has been actively researching the integration of mechanics and poetry of the body. Her work has a strong focus on the body support system, spatial and energetic awareness, intense physicality and utmost sensitivity.

As a performer, Valentina has worked with the choreographers Mark Sieczkarek and Editta Braun among others, and in 2014 she founded the international Collective ANDERPLATZ with nine other actors and dancers.

Read about her new training at her website  www.unfoldmethod.com

- show less

Cat Gerrard

Cat Gerrard

Cat is a performance-maker, storyteller, director and teacher from London. She trained at Drama Studio London and LISPA.

- read more

Cat has toured Europe with solo work and with various puppetry, physical theatre and storytelling ensembles, including Theatre Témoin and Impronta Theater. She is Artistic Director of storytelling company TailSpin.

She has been exploring the depths and heights of voice, text and telling – as a practitioner and a teacher – since 2010, colliding her cross-arts interests with a movement towards wholing.

www.catgerrard.com

- show less

Ariel Gutiérrez

Ariel Gutiérrez

Originally from Buenos Aires, Ariel has a background in international politics, Literature and Performing Arts.

- read more

He studied at the Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq in 1996 and joined LISPA in 2011, where he completed the Advanced Devising Practice program as well as the pedagogical training.

An active collaborator with companies in the US, Europe and Latin America, he also holds a PhD in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of Miami with an emphasis on Performance. His dissertation “Scenic Landscapes: The theater in the global city” explores the relation between globalization, theater and non-conventional performance spaces.

- show less

Rachel Karafistan

Rachel Karafistan

Rachel is a British performer, teacher, academic and director with over 25 years of experience of working professionally as a theatre maker.

- read more

She is the founder of Cosmino Productions (www.cosmino.org) which she runs with her partner and long term Blue Man, Kuba Pierzchalski.

Rachel is currently touring her latest solo performance Dreams Die Hard, which was inspired by the wartime diary of her Grandmother. Rachel trained with Odin Teatret, Philippe Gaulier and Frankie Armstrong and worked as an actor with internationally acclaimed Polish company, Teatr Biuro Podróży. As a director she has created performances with, among others, Greenwich Theatre, Northampton & Leeds Universities and the State Theatre of Salzburg. She is currently an External Examiner at East 15 Acting School in the UK. In 2001 she completed her PhD research into shamanic dimensions within contemporary theatre practice and has offered ‘From the Shaman to the Actor’ workshops often in collaboration with renowned author, Brian Bates. Rachel is relieved that after so many years of making theatre, it is still the greatest thrill imaginable.

- show less

Thomas Prattki

Thomas Prattki

Thomas is the founder of arthaus.berlin, an international creative hub for theatre makers from around the world. 

- read more

He has been the pedagogical director of the Ecole Jacques Lecoq, before creating in 2003 the London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA). In 2018 he creates arthaus.berlin, which hosts the international school of theatre and performance makers, an international workshop and research space and the Thomas Prattki Centre for Integral Movement and Performance Studies.

As a performer he has toured the world with Mummenschanz, a world renowned company combining movement, mask, puppetry and the visual arts. He has directed, taught and lectured for the last three decades in over 30 different countries, pursuing his interest in the practice of Embodiment in art and life.

His most important reference point next to the pedagogy of Jacques Lecoq is the strongly Jungian and Zen based work of Maria Hippius and Karlfried Graf Duerckheim. His most important teacher is currently his 6 month old daughter. 

- show less

Kelley Soul

Kelley Soul

Kelley is a facilitator, performer, art-maker and collaborator, interested in cross-disciplinary and multi-modal approaches.

- read more

As an actor she has performed with a number of US-based theatre companies, devising experimental work, whilst working professionally as an arts-in-education activist. She has an MFA in Actor Created Physical Theatre from Naropa University (USA), completed in partnership with LISPA, and a Certificate of Advanced Post Graduate Studies (Expressive Arts in Education) from the European Graduate School (Switzerland). She has taught with the LISPA/arthaus team since 2005. Kelley is also a visual artist, working primarily in acrylic, ink and watercolour. She has a deep interest in the development of sustainable creative practice, and the act of ‘making’ as a way of shaping the self and the world.

- show less

Patrick Soul

Patrick Soul

Patrick is a multi-instrumentalist with over 25 years of experience both performing and writing in many different styles of music.

- read more

He has a Masters degree in Jazz Performance from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and sang for seven years with the London Vocal Project, performing with them at London’s best jazz clubs as well as at the Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican. Since 2008 Patrick has been encouraging and assisting theatre students at arthaus.berlin / LISPA to playfully explore and expand the musical possibilities available to them, individually and in the group, through mindful listening, rhythm games and improvisation.
He also composes electronic and acoustic music, with a particular interest in the layering of patterns, additive and subtractive process music, free improvisation and instant composition.

www.patricksoul.com

- show less

Maria Eugenia Blanco

Maria Eugenia Blanco

María’s journey to theatre began to manifest at the age of 22 when she worked as hospital clown in Buenos Aires. This early spark

- read more

led her deeper into clown technique and thus deeper into theatre itself. 

She studied clown with different teachers such as Julia Muzio, Jorge Costa, Gabriel Paez and Lucia Snitcofsky and studied for two years at the EMAD: Metropolitan School of Dramatic Arts (Buenos Aires) specializing herself in “Acting for Open Spaces”. 

Inspired by meeting mask-maker Alfredo Iriarte, Maria began her research into the different masks and techniques of mask making, and the pedagogies by Marcelo Savignone and Lecoq.

For nearly two years she lived in Bali, carving masks in wood and eventually forming part of a collaboration with her teacher, mentor and friend, I Made Sudirga, entering into the Balinese beliefs and conceptions of the world, and reshaping herself as person and artist.

When she returned to Argentina, she created workshops, which brought together Balinese masks and conceptions with occidental theatre.

In summer 2019 she completed the two-year postgraduate training at arthaus.berlin in performing arts, devising theatre, and embodied dramaturgy.

www.mariaeugeniablanco.com

- show less

Philippa Hambly

Philippa Hambly

Philippa is a performer, theatre maker and facilitator. After completing her first LISPA journey in 2013, she returned in 2016 to begin the IMPP program, resuming this in 2019 alongside a pedagogical journey.

- read more

She has worked with various UK companies, touring extensively with internationally acclaimed theatre company, 1927 (Golem/ Roots) and regularly collaborates with Irish company Brú Theatre. She has also made and toured several independent works. Having previously trained and worked as a nurse, she is involved with Chimera Network in developing theatre workshops with and for student nurses. 

She is deeply rooted in embodied practices and is curious about things that turn, and movements through, which might take us beyond.

www.piphambly.com

- show less

Jelle De Wit

Jelle De Wit

Originally from Belgium, Jelle is a performer, director, choreographer and teacher.

Jelle studied Social and Cultural Work, after which

- read more

he headed to the ‘Fontys Academie voor Theater Tilburg, where he trained in directing and theater education. He has a BA in Theater from Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (The Netherlands) and an MA in Devised Theatre and Performance from the Rose-Bruford College in London and arthaus.berlin.

Over the years, he has taught a wide range of classes, covering subjects such as acting, expressive skills, public speaking, pitching, diction and diversity. In his own creations and performances, he explores the authenticity of his surroundings and natural human behaviour, offering up a poetic mirror to society. Currently, Jelle performs with CO-LAB, a collective of Latin American and European artists.

www.jelledewit.com

- show less

Cath Johnson

Cath Johnson

Cath is a theatre maker, performer, director and facilitator. Her focus has been on collaboratively devised theatre, with the body as the centre of the creative process.

- read more

For eight years she was the artistic director of London based Glass-Eye Theatre, a company of international artists with whom she created, directed and performed, touring original works nationally and internationally.

She completed the Advanced Devising Practise training in 2010, returning to Arthaus in 2018 to study the MA in Integral Movement and Performance Praxis.

Since moving to Berlin in 2019, Cath has been deepening her interest in the alchemical, transformative possibilities of creative processes, from baking bread to making theatre.

- show less

Michelle Madsen

Michelle Madsen

Michelle Madsen is an Argentine/Danish artist with a background in poetry, theatre and investigative journalism.

- read more

Michelle holds a degree in English Literature from the University of Oxford and a postgraduate certification in physical and devised theatre at LISPA (Arthaus) in Berlin. Her work investigates the disruption of prevailing mythologies through embodied play, with a focus on female-centred/queer narratives. She is co-director of award-winning theatre company, Bait (Cronivision, Kill The Princess) and is developing her own pedagogy based on integral movement (Axis Syllabus), clown (Pochinko/Clown Through Mask) and poetics. Her journalistic work has been broadcast on the BBC and she is co-host of Bears at a Picnic (Resonance FM). She is a guest lecturer/associate artist at City University and the University of Greenwich and is based in Berlin where she is completing a three-year cycle in Integral Movement and Performance Practice at the Thomas Prattki Centre.

- show less

Guest Teachers

Julie Beauvais

 

Julie Beauvais’ body of work ranges from opera, theatre and choreographic works, to architectural interventions, video works and performative installations.

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Her art is driven by her interests in embodied experience, conscience and elevation and has been performed and exhibited internationally since 2001. The swiss artist began her directing path in the United States after graduating from Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She has then researched internationally, exploring different forms of choreographic works and epic theatre in diverse political contexts. The work has led to collaborations with South American, Asian, Européan and American companies. In 2006, Julie started focusing on the dynamics that lyrical voice provokes in the singer’s body and, by extention, in the performing space. Amongst the many operas she directed in eight years, baroque compositions opened new horizons. While in New York, Julie created a platform for her research by founding BadNewsFromTheStars*, several times awarded. Regularly invited to teach, she has been engaged by many educational institutions including HEMU, ZHdK, EPFL, LISPA, Arthaus.Berlin International school. Commissioned by Ensemble Intercontemporain – founded by Pierre Boulez and directed by artistic director and composer Matthias Pintscher – Beauvais is creating Intérieur, an immersive performance, after the play of M. Maeterlinck, that will première in 2020. She is also currently creating her next work in the wild winds of Patagonia.

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Abigail Dooley

 

Abigail is a theatre director, teacher, performer and scriptwriter, specialising in devised theatre.  She trained at East 15 Drama School, Ecole Philippe Gaulier and LISPA.

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She has performed, directed and devised with many companies including Compagnie Philippe Gaulier, Keith Johnstone, Spymonkey, Told by An Idiot, Peepolykus and Trestle Theatre Company.  She is joint Artistic Director and performer with the theatre company – A & E Comedy, whose play, Enter The Dragons, won the Best of Brighton Fringe award 2017.

Over the last 25 years Abigail has taught extensively at drama schools and Universities, including Mountview, ALRA and Middlesex University.  As a scriptwriter, she won Hat Trick Productions Sitcom Mission Competition and has made a number of short films, including a TV sitcom pilot with Spymonkey Theatre Company.

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Lionel Ménard

 

Lionel worked for 10 years with the Company Marcel Marceau before joining Philipp Genty’s Company.

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As a director and choreographer he has worked beyond others with Philipp Glass at the Carnegie Hall, Michael Jackson and Marcel Marceau at HBO, Claude Lelouch, Jean Paul Goude and Lea Seydoux. at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Luxembourg Philharmonic, the Warsaw mime centrum, the Valencia Festival in Venezuela and the Sydney Festival.

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Philipp Schaefer

 

Philipp is an actor, clown and licensed TaKeTiNa Rhythm Teacher. An alumnus of Jacques Lecoq, he has performed his show “stäx rhythmclown” in street theatre festivals all over Europe.

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As a teacher he has worked at theatre schools and universities such as LISPA, Universität für Musik und darstellende Künste (Vienna) and Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding (Munich).

He is a drum circle-facilitator and works as well with Himalayan singing bowls. “Rhythm is my tool as a clown and as a teacher in order to create a space for new experiences and personal development. There is no need to learn a new instrument, since you are the instrument. You will find out how to play it in the best possible way.”

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Jonathan Young

 

Jonathan Young is an award-winning theatre maker, writer and teacher. He trained for two years with Jacques Lecoq at his school of theatre and movement in Paris, before studying contemporary clowning with Philippe Gaulier and Sue Morrison.

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In 2001, he set up a touring company, Shams, and was its artistic director until 2012. Shams created intelligent and playful new work, often using multimedia elements, clowning, site specific or immersive projects.

For the past 20 years, Jonathan has also worked freelance as a performer, writer and director/dramaturg with other UK theatre companies. He has regularly taught movement, devising, clowning and theatre at drama schools and universities, including LAMDA, LISPA in London and Berlin, Guildford School of Acting, Birkbeck and Manchester Universities.

He is a qualified Feldenkrais Method practitioner and a screenwriter. His first short film, Padlock (2016), co-written with director Ben Hyland, won Best Film at the Bottle Smoke Film Festival and Best Thriller at the New Renaissance Film Festival. He is currently developing feature film and TV projects, as well as a new clown-theatre show.

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Julie Beauvais

 

Julie Beauvais’ body of work ranges from opera, theatre and choreographic works, to architectural interventions, video works and performative installations.

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Her art is driven by her interests in embodied experience, conscience and elevation and has been performed and exhibited internationally since 2001. The swiss artist began her directing path in the United States after graduating from Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She has then researched internationally, exploring different forms of choreographic works and epic theatre in diverse political contexts. The work has led to collaborations with South American, Asian, Européan and American companies. In 2006, Julie started focusing on the dynamics that lyrical voice provokes in the singer’s body and, by extention, in the performing space. Amongst the many operas she directed in eight years, baroque compositions opened new horizons. While in New York, Julie created a platform for her research by founding BadNewsFromTheStars*, several times awarded. Regularly invited to teach, she has been engaged by many educational institutions including HEMU, ZHdK, EPFL, LISPA, Arthaus.Berlin International school. Commissioned by Ensemble Intercontemporain – founded by Pierre Boulez and directed by artistic director and composer Matthias Pintscher – Beauvais is creating Intérieur, an immersive performance, after the play of M. Maeterlinck, that will première in 2020. She is also currently creating her next work in the wild winds of Patagonia.

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Abigail Dooley

 

Abigail is a theatre director, teacher, performer and scriptwriter, specialising in devised theatre.  She trained at East 15 Drama School, Ecole Philippe Gaulier and LISPA.

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She has performed, directed and devised with many companies including Compagnie Philippe Gaulier, Keith Johnstone, Spymonkey, Told by An Idiot, Peepolykus and Trestle Theatre Company.  She is joint Artistic Director and performer with the theatre company – A & E Comedy, whose play, Enter The Dragons, won the Best of Brighton Fringe award 2017.

Over the last 25 years Abigail has taught extensively at drama schools and Universities, including Mountview, ALRA and Middlesex University.  As a scriptwriter, she won Hat Trick Productions Sitcom Mission Competition and has made a number of short films, including a TV sitcom pilot with Spymonkey Theatre Company.

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Lionel Ménard

 

Lionel worked for 10 years with the Company Marcel Marceau before joining Philipp Genty’s Company.

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As a director and choreographer he has worked beyond others with Philipp Glass at the Carnegie Hall, Michael Jackson and Marcel Marceau at HBO, Claude Lelouch, Jean Paul Goude and Lea Seydoux. at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Luxembourg Philharmonic, the Warsaw mime centrum, the Valencia Festival in Venezuela and the Sydney Festival.

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Philipp Schaefer

 

Philipp is an actor, clown and licensed TaKeTiNa Rhythm Teacher. An alumnus of Jacques Lecoq, he has performed his show “stäx rhythmclown” in street theatre festivals all over Europe.

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As a teacher he has worked at theatre schools and universities such as LISPA, Universität für Musik und darstellende Künste (Vienna) and Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding (Munich).

He is a drum circle-facilitator and works as well with Himalayan singing bowls. “Rhythm is my tool as a clown and as a teacher in order to create a space for new experiences and personal development. There is no need to learn a new instrument, since you are the instrument. You will find out how to play it in the best possible way.”

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Jonathan Young

 

Jonathan Young is an award-winning theatre maker, writer and teacher. He trained for two years with Jacques Lecoq at his school of theatre and movement in Paris, before studying contemporary clowning with Philippe Gaulier and Sue Morrison.

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In 2001, he set up a touring company, Shams, and was its artistic director until 2012. Shams created intelligent and playful new work, often using multimedia elements, clowning, site specific or immersive projects.

For the past 20 years, Jonathan has also worked freelance as a performer, writer and director/dramaturg with other UK theatre companies. He has regularly taught movement, devising, clowning and theatre at drama schools and universities, including LAMDA, LISPA in London and Berlin, Guildford School of Acting, Birkbeck and Manchester Universities.

He is a qualified Feldenkrais Method practitioner and a screenwriter. His first short film, Padlock (2016), co-written with director Ben Hyland, won Best Film at the Bottle Smoke Film Festival and Best Thriller at the New Renaissance Film Festival. He is currently developing feature film and TV projects, as well as a new clown-theatre show.

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Administrative Leadership

Thomas Prattki

Managing Director

Kelley Soul

Senior Manager

Patrick Soul

Senior Manager

Berta Del Ben

Administrative Assistant

Our Students

Our Students

Over 750 full-time students studied with us between 2003 – 2022 from the following locations:

Argentina – Australia – Austria – Basque Country – Belgium – Bermuda – Brazil – Canada – Chile – China – Colombia – Croatia – Cyprus – Denmark – Estonia – Finland – France – Germany – Greece – Hawaii – Hong Kong – Hungary – India – Iraq – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Kurdistan – Lebanon – Malta – Mexico – New Zealand – Norway – Palestine – Philippines – Poland – Portugal – Puerto Rico – Romania – Russia – Serbia – Slovakia – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – West Indies – Sweden – Switzerland – Taiwan – Thailand – The Netherlands – Turkey – United Kingdom – Uruguay – USA

Manifesto

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Manifesto

Change.

 

The student movements of the 1960’s were fuelled by a desire to change the predominant vertical, male hierarchies in politics, mainstream culture, education and the arts and a wish to move to more horizontal structures based on collaboration, dialogue, fluidity and equality. While the beginnings of collaboratively devised performance can be probably traced all the way back to the beginnings of theatre itself, the explosion of devising practices, training methods and companies since the 1970’s is closely linked to this political movement of change. In the meantime devised theatre and performance has seen a rich development of artistic languages and a differentiation of its motivations and working processes beyond the political. In this context arthaus.berlin international school addresses artists who wish to move towards artistic autonomy to experience themselves as agents of change and transformation in contemporary culture.

Inter-being.

 

The fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 marked the end of the so called “iron curtain”. Since then Berlin has become an iconic symbol for the emergence of subcultures which continue to challenge the political and cultural “either/or “ dichotomy, so present during the period of the Cold War, but also re-emerging all across Europe and beyond in the far right political movements of present days. Being is inter-being. This approach opens a space for a new understanding  of encounter, where otherness is not a threat, but an opportunity. arthaus.berlin international school wishes to foster a growing awareness for inter-being, in all aspects of artistic and cultural life, and to encourage therefore our students to move  towards interdisciplinary exchange, international collaborations and the trans-cultural. This demands a culture of dialogue, so that autonomy and inter-being do not exclude each other, but become the two halves of a powerful new creative polarity. .

Flux.

 

In 2007 Apple launches the first iPhone and with it a cultural revolution. Everybody can now become her/his own filmmaker, photographer, DJ., and is able to take on the role of a cultural producer. The creation of culture is no longer in the hands of a few individuals, but open to everybody. Contemporary culture enters a phase of enormous diversity, pluralism and fluidity and the concepts of what constitutes art need to be redefined. In this cultural context at the beginning of the 21st century arthaus.berlin international school enjoys the opportunity to be a place of creative research and flux, where the modernist art vision of transcending time and place, of aiming for a truth, an absolute, a unity, of making sense of the world, of being poetic and metaphorical meets its polar opposite, the postmodernist rejection of style and unity in favour of assemblage, the personal, the local, the liminal, the androgynous, to fertilise each other.  

Admission

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Admission

Applications and Auditions

 

Please send the following materials to the school via email

 

Completed Application Form  (Download PDF  –  Download docx)

 

Statement of Interest

We would like to know more about your interest in the course. Please send us a scan of a hand-written letter of motivation explaining why you would like to study at arthaus.berlin. If your handwritten statement of interest is in a language other than english or possibly difficult to read, we ask for a legible version in English to accompany the scan.

 

Curriculum Vitae

Please give us an insight into your education, artistic training, theatrical experience and other fields of interest. Be sure to include complete contact information, your date of birth, and your nationality/passport country in your CV.

 

Letter of Recommendation

Please include a scan of one original letter of recommendation from a former teacher, director or training institute. No faxed copies or emailed letters will be accepted.

 

Evidence of Qualifications

Enclose scanned copies of relevant degrees, certificates or transcripts.

 

Budget plan

Please include a comprehensive financial budget plan explaining how you intend to pay for both the training and your costs of living in Berlin. Include any scanned bank statements where appropriate. If funded or supported by a relative or institution, include a signed statement from them which declares their financial support of your application, along with their full contact details.

 

Photo

Please include one recent photo of yourself – a passport photo is sufficient.

 

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