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A hands-on workshop that explores devising as a creative process in theatre and drama education. Participants will experiment with collaborative techniques for generating original performance material using movement, improvisation, image work, and storytelling. The session focuses on how devising can support creativity, critical thinking, and group dynamics in educational settings. Suitable for teachers, students, and theatre practitioners, the workshop offers practical tools to facilitate inclusive, process-oriented drama work.
This work is valuable first of all for working with teenagers, as topics and subjects important for them personally will be explored. In this process the participants are co-authors of the performance, thus enabling them to truly dedicate to the work and invest in it fully, one of the most important things necessary when working with adolescents.
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Theatre director, choreographer, actress, drama and dance pedagogue, producer. She has been formed as an artist by masters of contemporary theatre and dance Torgeir Wethal (Odin Teatret, Denmark), Yoshi Oida (Peter Brook, Japan/France), Gennady Bogdanov (Meyerhold`s Biomehanics, Russia), Rena Mirecka and Zigmunt Molik (Grotowski, Poland), Carolyn Carson (USA) , Steven Iannacone (USA), Shiro Daimond (France/Japan), Smiljana Mandukić (Serbia), Mira Sanjina (Serbia) and many others. As an acclaimed international expert in the realm of drama/theatre education, devised theatre and dance, Sanja is the author of an original methodology called “ecology of the soul”, based on developing creative potentials of each individual through an artistic process. Together with her theatre group and individually, she tours performances and conducts workshops around the globe, also giving lectures and keynotes. A core member, actress and choreographer of the first Serbian theatre laboratory DAH Teatar for more than two decades, and the Program Director of Dah Theatre Research Centre (now DAH Theatre Centre for Culture and Social Change) she was one of the leaders of the International School for Actors and Directors in Belgrade, for more than ten years. She is one of the founders and artistic director of Hleb teatar, and the umbrella association for performing arts Artistic Utopia as well as founder and director of the Children and Youth Theatre Festival Mater Terra and a dance Festival Days of Smiljana Mandukić, dedicated to one of the pioneers of contemporary dance in Yugoslavia. She is the initiator and author of various artistic and education projects, and is developing new forms in theatre, such as an “essay in movement”, and documentary dance performance. President of Centre for Drama in Education and Art-CEDEUM, and president of the International Association of Drama/Theatre and Education-IDEA.
