Demidov Studio Athens Lab
Demidov Studio Athens Lab was created by Vicky Georgiadou in January 2021.
Its aim is to be a creative space of training and research for actors who have already been trained in the foundational principles of Demidov’s School and are interested in exploring the technique in greater depth and in the spirit of true ensemble work.
Its members work with Vicky Georgiadou on further research on Demidov’s findings and on the holistic understanding of the art of acting he suggests. They also take part in the private sessions offered by Demidov Studio Athens ®, offering ideal partnerships to the participants who are introduced to the technique.
DSA Lab’s activities and research are in direct dialogue and close collaboration with Andrei Biziorek and his respective work in the Demidov Studio London Lab.
Given the timescale that is necessary for this type of training, DSA’s research work traces Nikolai Demidov’s pedagogical approach. An approach of lofty and demanding ideals as well as of an extraordinary simplicity, that instigates the cultivation of a different approach in the development of an actor-creator. According to Demidov’s approach, principles, values and ways we used to think unattainable, become an indispensable part of the work from the first day of training. This approach, with its ways and values, gives the actor creative freedom, it nurtures a spiritual and physical state of calm and it cultivates a boldness based on actor’s faith in his sound creative state, which does not need intellectual concepts and pre-decisions that restrain actor’s wholistic psychophysical response.
The Demidov Studio Athens ® Laboratory is part of the activities of Pulsar Group ® and has been funded in 2021 by the Ministry of Culture for research work in the fiend of theatre.
