Recordings of our Monday Lectures:
Runar Hodne - Don Juan
In Dom Juan ou Le Festin de Pierre from 1665 Molières’ protagonist seduces all females with a seemingly nihilistic lack of…
Sarah Woods - Worlds of Story
Human beings are story-making creatures – it’s how we make sense of the world. We’re surrounded by them – from…
Serge von Arx - Directing the Public Space and other Spatial Narratives
The public space is the stage where our lives unfold, individually and more so in our communities. The creation and…
Andrea Elín Vilhjálmsdóttir - Ecocentric performance making
How well do we know other species that share this earth, and how are they represented in our works? Graphic…
Nína Hjálmarsdóttir - The Image of Iceland and it's representation in the icelandic art scene
In this lecture Nína Hjálmarsdóttir talks about her research into the marketed image of Iceland, specifically since 2008, and how…
Arno Vincovic - Political time and eternity in the contemporary performing arts
This talk was part of the AN seminar 2021 by TEAK Helsinki on “Time temporality and Eternity in the art…
Anna Volkland - Time (pressure) in professional theatre work and how we’d like to work together
This talk was part of the AN seminar 2021 by TEAK Helsinki on “Time temporality and Eternity in the art…
Thomas Ostermeier - mapping democracy
In his play “An Enemy of the People” Henrik Ibsen walks a fine line between honesty and fanaticism. His play poses…
Holger Teschke - Bertolt Brecht and the origins of his Epic Theatre
Holger Teschke, director and teacher at the Ernst Busch theatreschool in Berlin, talks about ‘Bertolt Brecht and the origins of…
Female Authors for AN: Marieluise Fleißer - A Pioneer Writer
During their studies at the HfS Ernst Busch in Berlin Laura, Jakob, Alina and their classmates noticed an underrepresentation of…
Sanna Ryynänen - Theatre as a political space of presence
About the meanings and dimensions of the “political” in theatre today The debate about the social and political nature of…
Egill Palsson – Devised Theatre
Here is the first part of a two-part lecture on devised theatre with Egill Palsson, theatre director in Tromsø, Norway: Second part, one…
Saana Lavaste - Living Situation On Stage
How to create a situation (on stage) and how to make it feel alive? In this lecture Saana Lavaste, theatre director…
Inger Eilersen - Human migration
The project’s ambition is to develop methods for text development and staging strategies to put the performing arts in dialogue…
Loreta Vaskova - headphone verbatim
In this exercise, Loreta Vaskova from Lithuanian Academy Of Music And Theatre, LMTA, explains the headphone verbatim method:
Podcast "Directing Theatre" ep. #1 by Runar Hodne
This is the first episode of the podcast Directing Theatre by Runar Hodne from the Danish National School Of Performing…
Egill Palsson - Action Analysis
In this lecture, Egill Palsson, director, teacher and artistic director of the Artic Theater in Tromsø, Norway, will go through…
Runar Hodne - What is a concept?
In this highly recommended video, Runar Hodne from the Danish National School Of Performing Arts talks about the idea of…
Julian Jungel - How to edit your lecture for the Alexandria Nova Website
Dear lecturers of Alexandria Nova,I’m glad you’re here. First of all, thank you very much for holding your lecture in…
Gabrielė Labanauskaitė - Automatic Writing
Automatic Writing, sometimes also referred to as Unconscious Writing, is a creative writing method. In this session, hold by Gabrielė…