A workshop led by Maša Jelić, PLAVO Theatre actress and theatre pedagogue
September 27 – October 3, 2025, 11:00 – 14:00
We will train our bodies and voices, not to make them more capable or more fascinating, but rather to make them transparent, obstacle free, allowing our inner content to become visible. Complete actor’s training is a practice of liberation and integration of our physical, emotional and spiritual existence. It is a way to reveal and follow our organic impulses, our authenticity, our truth. Training teaches us how to be completely present and more aware on stage, how to endure effort with mental ease and lucidity, how to flow.
Physical training uses different practical elements from various backgrounds, such as hatha yoga, martial arts, exercises for mobility and plasticity of the body, traditional dances, combined with music, text or different contextual tasks. They can be adapted to any level of physical ability (no worries 😊).
Vocal training includes breathing practice and various exercises that open, or wake our vocal capacities by exploring a vocal action, no matter if we speak, sing, scream or just breathe, as an extension of the body in the space. It is a path of discovering the truthful vibration related to our inner circumstances.
What should you prepare?
- A traditional song, preferably from your own country, but it can also be from any other tradition of your choice;
- Comfortable working clothes (covering shoulders and knees), a towel (we’ll sweat).
Looking forward to meeting you in the room!
Registration form: https://formurl.com/to/Two-Open-Weeks-2025-Registration-form
Maša Jelić
Actress of PLAVO Theatre since 2001, theatre pedagogue in PLAVO Theatre since 2007. She acted in 20 performances of PLAVO Theatre, which were performed internationally, among them: Fantastic Gospel According to Virginia 2003, Dialectics of Soul – Study of Freedom in 2004, I Sing Like a Bird in 2006, The Wizard or Harmonic Cacophony in 2007, Dancing With Father in 2008, Pagan Phantasm or The Secret of Betrayal in 2010, solo performance Ema in 2013, Daydream – A Story from Terezin in 2016, I Psychi tis Antigonis in 2023. In 2024 she co-created and performed in international co-production The Passage, created within the Creative Europe project The Paradox of Justice – European Laboratory Theatre Co-production. In 2024-2025 she performed in the international performance Materialy do Pokojowek, produced by the Grotowski Institute. Since 2007 she has conducted a continuous educational program Contemporary Theatre Studio, as well as Workshop of Actor’s Physical and Vocal Training and workshop Dance of Memory, which was a part of PLAVO Theatre international educational program Two Open Weeks. Since 2019 ongoing she has been leading numerous inclusive educational projects with youth with disabilities as well as with young migrants and asylum seekers. She co-directed and directed three performances with the participants of the inclusive projects Ode to Diversity (2021-2024). To broaden her acting work, she participated in workshops led by Odin Teatret actors Roberta Careri, Jan Ferslev, Iben Nagel Rasmussen and those led by former actors of Jerzy Grotowski’s Laboratory Theatre, Zygmunt Molik and Rena Mirecka. She attended several educational programs, such as Masters in residence, organized by the Grotowski institute in Wroclaw. She has been teaching yoga since 2022.