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Workshop by Boris Nikitin

from 20th-30th Novembre in Johannesburg and Cape Town (SA)

The workshop draws uncommon wisdom from an unlikely text How to Win Friends & Influence People, Dale Carnegie’s bestselling coaching guidebook book from the 1930′s, which rises the question: “What skills and forms of communication can I use in order to influence a situation (ie reality) so that it develops in a way that I want to?” It facilitates the goal of becoming an authentic, respected and convincing person. But what is reality if it is at first a question of persuasive power? The workshops considers the recreation of reality on stage.

Theatre is about acting a different character or playing a role. Performance is often about performing yourself or claiming to be yourself, and playing with the illusion of authenticity. Using dates, information and stories of one’s own biography (true or fake) a performative self-portrait is created, with the possibility of identity being in constant flux; changing from word to word, movement to movement. The workshop deals with being yourself on stage (or claiming it), working with reality, playing with reality, and questioning reality; with the rolemodel of a conman – the one who convinces and influences other people, who makes other people believe and trust him.

D/E
  • Season One. 20 Years Big Brother
  • 24 frames per second
  • Swiss Propaganda-Conference
  • Attempt on Dying
  • Revolution of the vulnerable
  • It's The Real Thing '19
  • The Opposite of Things
  • don't be yourself - eight self portraits
  • Power and Vulnerability 1-8
  • Presentation of a fake sermon
  • Meet Your Enemy at the Social Muscle Club
  • Martin Luther Propagandasymposium
  • It's The Real Thing 17
  • Hamlet
  • Martin Luther Propagandapiece
  • The audition
  • Sonnett 20
  • X-Appartments Athens
  • It's The Real Thing 15 - Basel Documentary Platform
  • The Joburg Auditions
  • Sänger ohne Schatten
  • Documentation, fake, reality
  • Exit
  • Also the real thing
  • Sei Nicht Du Selbst
  • It's The Real Thing - Basel Documentary Platform 13
  • How to win friends & influence people
  • Workshop
  • Bartleby oder Sicherheit ist ein Gefühl
  • Das Grundgesetz
  • Diese Kinder sind in Ordnung
  • Universal Export
  • The broken jar
  • Die Zeitmaschine 1980-2010
  • Woyzeck (Radioplay)
  • X- Schulen
  • Imitation of Life
  • F wie Fälschung
  • Woyzeck