Theatre Workshop Held Successfully by The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw, Poland

On the morning of October 24th, 2017, a Theatre Workshop was successfully held by The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw at the thrust theater in Changping Campus of the Central Academy of Drama. As we all know, performance is an integration of sound, body, text, thought as well as emotion. For many years, Stanislavsky's Performance System has been considered as the best performance way to dig into the inner world of drama characters by making dramatic texts into performance. The workshop training was held on the basis of Stanislavsky's Performance by director Walemar Razniak. At the same time, the director mentioned that the workshop training drawn experience from Stanislavsky's body drama and Chinese opera performance form.

The first part of training, vocal training, was led by Anna Serafińska. She selected twenty students in the auditorium and put them in a circle just saying a word. Anna conducted specific training on their vocal pronunciations after their saying lines. Anna believed that if the muscles were too nervous, the sounds would not be completely released. Her training method was to make performers’ bodies extremely relaxed asking students to run around the stage and stretch their arms.

The second part of training, physical training, was led by Walemar Razniak. The director asked 20 students walk away on the stage without specific direction and to form a team of two through eyes contact. The two persons turned around with their hands intertwining into a hand lock. During the workshop training, the director repeatedly emphasized that it was forbidden to lose sight of his companions or to hurt the companions because of their ambitions.This training method greatly liberated the students' bodily functions under an insurmountable rule of respecting their partners. "For performers on the stage, their respect for partners is also a way of their respect for performance. A good play cannot be accomplished by only one person. It needs the coordination of everyone on the stage." That is Walemar Razniak’s training concept that a performer should always remember his partners and his position on the stage.