The Atelier für physisches Theater Berlin (APT),
co-founded and run by Mina Tinaburri and Urich Ernitz, since 1995. The Atelier für physisches Theater (APT) is an independent international theatre centre which is constantly researching, promoting and developing physical theatre.
Since 2004 the Atelier presents the one and only two year professional training programme in physical theatre in Germany, according to the theatre making methods of Jacques Copeau and Jacques Lecoq.
The training programme differentiates from conventional theatre making training methods so as to give theatre a new and lively impulse.
The students of the APT are coming from different European and Extraeuropean countries, such as Germany, Austria, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Israel, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Rép. de Côte d'Ivoire, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, South-Africa and U.S.A.
The different languages of the students flow into the lectures as well as the theatre making of the Atelier, whereby these languages are used as material.
The teaching method of the Atelier für physisches Theater integrates the different styles of theatre focusing on body language, since the body ist the main tool of the performer, on movement in space
and on the actor/actress who plays and act and create again the world in every single gesture
The main goal of the work is theatre game, as the ground for a relationship between the performer and the audience based on comunication.
The main characteristic is the continuous and constantly changing interaction between the training experimental phase: (study of the basic techniques, researches on the topics, exercises and improvisation) and the creative phase: synthesis, writing, staging, performance.
The aim of the professional training programme
is no reproduction of any theatrical style, but rather to provid students with tools, to discover and to develop their artistical nuances, poetical personality and madness embedded in geniusness, so as to enable them to create a dynamic, original and innovative theatre.
Scenic work/Shows
Regularly, during the 2 years students will receive themes based on the topic of study to direct in groups or alone. Periodically, the work results will be presented in public performances in the school or in fringe theatre venues in Berlin to give students the opportunity to complete their training on stage.
