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2025 ZZ Training with Fine 5 Dance Theatre
3th of June 2025. Zero Zone Praxis meets Actors’ Dramaturgy. Workshop, Sakala Centre, Tallinn, EST.
2025 AusAct Conference: Transforming Safety & Identity in Training
6th-8th of March 2025. Zero Zone Praxis Detects Miscommunication Instead of Conflict. Presentation and Workshop, Flinders University, Adelaide, AUS.
International Platform for Performer Training 2024 Congress. Zero Zone Praxis as a Creativity Enhancement Method.
11th-14th of January 2024. Presentation and Workshop, Tampere University, FIN.
The 6th International Dance and Somatic Practices Conference 2023
14th-16th of July 2023. Presentation and Workshop, Coventry University, UK
Leadership Coaching Conference 2023 PAUSE
1st of June 2023, Zero Zone in practice. Common practice with public facilitating. Business Day Conferences, Tallinn Estonia
The S Word: Stanislavsky and Mindfulness
20th of April 2023, Presentation, Symposium @London South Bank University, UK
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The first MFA degree was defended by a professional actress using ZZ praxis in rehearsals and performing for flow establishment.
5th of April 2023, @the University of Central Florida Performance Centre, US
The 1st PGR Showcase
8th -15th of March 2023. MSARC, Presentation and Workshop, K-Haus Oxford 70 @ Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Russian Connection 2023
9th of Jan -15th of Feb 2023, Stanislavski Active Analyses, Demidov, Zero Zone praxis. Workshops and production Chekhov “Cherry Orchard”. Department of Media and Performance, Performing Centre, Staffordshire University, UK
Mindfulness Conference 2022
2nd of Dec 2022, Practice with the presentation and online public facilitating. Business Day Conferences, Tallinn Estonia
International Federation of Theatre Research 2021 in Galway, Ireland
July 2021. The third workshop of Zero Zone Praxis @IFTR Conference in Galway and worldwide
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Balance Awakening
Complete workshop series 19th of Jan – 9th of Feb 2022, School of Performing Arts, University of Central Florida, US
The Australian Actor Training Conference 2020, International
December 2020. The second public workshop of Zero Zone Praxis.
Pilot and Case Studies 2019/2020
The pilot study and workshop @Auroville Theatre Group, India winter 2019/20. The first case study with Zero Zone Praxis @Polygon Theatre and the first show, using this praxis-Koppelmaa/Tohver “Singing Green”. Second case study with Polygon Theatre School, spring and fall 2020
Soul Fest 2019: Why Be Afraid of Fear?
August, 2019. Releasing from Fear and Inspiration Awakening. Presentation and workshop. Saaremaa, Estonia
Wellbeing Practices 2019
18th of April 2019. Zero Point in Balance. Presentation and workshop. Business Day Conferences, Tallinn Estonia
Designable Workshop Format
Part one
Balance Awakening
This workshop introduces Zero Zone Praxis (ZZ), especially encouraging the perceptual entering to the character, creating awareness about time and focusing and introducing different levels of consciousness to use them for more profound creation in Performing Arts. The ZZ Praxis has three stages: two for exercises and techniques, and the third is a lecture format.
Part Two
Creating Flow
The ensuing workshop period could be included in the show’s preparation. The rehearsal period will deepen the practice and, therefore, the understanding of new knowledge, which increases the experience. What is learned in the workshop is used in daily rehearsals in real situations and explained accordingly. The primary method for show development can be anything: text-based drama, dance, physical theatre, or the fusion of all these.
The First Stage: The Stairs
External, psychophysical.
This is a preparing level and can be used as a warm-up for rehearsal, in which a shared space will be created. It provides an embodied understanding of psychophysical insight: the tools for improving self-confidence and connection with a partner and how it works. How to create a performing flow.
The Second Stage: The Entrance
Introverted Kinaesthetic awareness in use.
This level is turning external focus (from physical doing) inward, tuning one to be more intimate, peaceful and thereby more precise, present and aware of the inner processes for differentiation and sharpening of perception.
The Third Stage: Zero Zone Dynamics
The intellectual knowledge, given in lecture-discussion mode.
While the first two levels are carried by curiosity and gradually progressing awareness, supported by personal insights private to every participant, the third level frames everything together: the reasons, the destination, the path and the result.
In this series of workshops, one will learn and train:
- To create deep contact
- To concentrate properly
- To distinct precisely one’s personal emotions from character’s ones and will learn how to guide them
- A unique experience of time
- To create, explore and implement truthful communication between the characters
- How to create artistic conflict between the characters and thereby both significant and more minor events of the play
- How to create artistic conflict between the characters and thereby both significant and more minor events of the play
- How to decrease the false presentation and replace it with being here and now
- To understand different levels of consciousness and shift between them easily and
- How to not to fear to do so
- Using a deeper level of connection and creating a profound performing flow
AND THEREBY
How to keep our innovation and passion alive toward the performing art as a creation : How to prevent, avoid or alleviate stage fright and performing anxiety : How to prevent the conflicts both in ensemble and internally with self : How to discover and develop your individual quality of the de-rolling process/technique