Theatre Workshop held by Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgia State University, Georgia 

On the afternoon of October 21st, 2017, Professor Giorgi Margvelashvili, president of Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgia State University, Georgia held a physique & acting training workshop for international students at the Thrust Stage Theatre in Changping Campus of the Central Academy of Drama, China.

At the beginning of the workshop, Professor Giorgi Margvelashvili asked students to walk freely on the stage without touching other people. With the quickening of walking pace, it became difficult to meet that requirement. The professor explained that the training purpose was to strengthen actors’ control of their body, which is a basic quality of a good actor. Everyone was not very adapted to this training method at first, but they gradually met the requirement with the help of teacher's guidance and parteners' cooperation, and laid a good foundation for their training afterwards.

Later, the challenge of training increased from practicing in one people, in twosome to in threesome. Actors learned to maximize the control of their bodies through “dynamic” movement training and take full advantage of their entire bodies in the process of performance, instead of using only sounds and facial expressions. The participants sat around a circle and changed their positions through tapping other's shoulders or made a team of two and imitated themselves from their partners. Professor Giorgi Margvelashvili said that the body, as a carrier reflecting the most instinctive and true consciousness and emotion of the mankind, connected with the surroundings through human senses and constructed the cognition of the world through body’s movements. The artist, regarding human body as a medium, explored the self-awareness, common life, social norms and other general aspects. That is the whole meaning of this workshop training.

Professor Giorgi Margvelashvili also stressed that the body training should be practiced step by step and one can not be in a hurry to succeed. Students from all around the world were inspired by the course and also learned a lot through the workshop.