Michael Chekhov Europe

10/06/2026

CHEKHOV WORLD THEATRE - July 12-18, Hamburg
Meet the teachers:
ULRICH MEYER-HORSCH, Schule für Schauspiel Hamburg
• Michael Chekhov Technique • Organic breathing • Mask work

Ulrich Meyer-Horsch is an award-winning actor and theatre director with three decades of working experience in German state and regional theaters, including Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Schauspiel Frankfurt, and Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin. He has worked with Simon McBurney & Complicité, Augusto Boal and Yoshi Oida. Until 2015, he was the associate artistic director of Kreuzgangspiele Feuchtwangen, one of Germany’s biggest summer theatres.

Ulrich holds degrees in Acting, Theater Pedagogy, Theology, and Philosophy, from the universities of Heidelberg, Hamburg, and London (King’s College). He studied with Michael Chekhov’s former students Hurt Hatfield, Deidre Hurst du Prey, Mala Powers and Joanna Merlin as well as with master teachers from Russia and East Asia. In his own approach, he incorporates organic breathing, the playfulness of games, and work with masks. He co-edited the book “Michael Tschechow: Der Schauspieler ist das Theater”, Berlin 2022.

Since 1994, Ulrich has been teaching and directing throughout Europe, Russia, Turkey, Armenia, Lebanon, Egypt, Israel, United Arabic Emirates, Burundi, South Africa, Brazil, Uruguay, Cuba, Mexico, USA, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and Indonesia. He is a guest lecturer at Yeditepe University Istanbul, and serves on the board of directors of the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA), New York. He is the co-artistic director of Schule für Schauspiel Hamburg (SfSH), and co-founder of Michael Chekhov Europe (MCE). This fall he will direct the Final Year Production of Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI) at Esplanade Theatre Studio in Singapore.

CHEKHOV WORLD THEATRE Summer Academy
Hamburg, July 12-18
https://sfsh.de/international-summer-academy/sfsh10042/
Contact: [email protected]

03/06/2026

CHEKHOV WORLD THEATRE - July 12-18, Hamburg
Meet the teachers:
YIGIT SERTDEMIR, Kumbaracı50 Tiyatro, Istanbul, Turkey
• Directing • Devising and play writing

Yiğit Sertdemir is a playwright, theatre director, and actor, well-known throughout Turkey. In 1999, he was among the founders of the Altıdan Sonra Theatre ensemble, and in 2009 he co-founded Kumbaracı50 Tiyatro with the same collective. He currently serves as the Artistic director of Kumbaracı50.
Kumbaracı50 is one of the pioneering independent theatres in Beyoğlu, Istanbul. By producing several productions each year, prioritizing contemporary texts and directing practices, and creating space for young artists, it continues to strengthen both its presence and its cultural identity.
Yiğit also has been working at the Istanbul Municipality City Theatres since 2002. He has received awards in many categories for nearly fifty theatre productions in which he was part of the creative team. Sixteen of his plays have been published. He also designs the lighting and stage for some of the plays he directs. Yiğit loves to give workshops on play writing, directing, and acting, and he teaches at various universities throughout Turkey.

CHEKHOV WORLD THEATRE Summer Academy
Hamburg, July 12-18
https://sfsh.de/international-summer-academy/sfsh10042/
Contact: [email protected]

31/05/2026

CHEKHOV WORLD THEATRE - July 12-18, Hamburg
Meet the teachers:
REMITH RAMESH, The Interlink Theatre, Hyderabad, India
• Kutiyattam traditional theatre • Intercultural theatre

Remith Ramesh is an actor, theatre maker, and Kutiyattam performer, originally from Kerala, South India. Since his early life, he studied Kutiyattam at Kerala Kalamandalam, one of India’s most renowned institutions for classical performing arts. Later he trained in contemporary theatre at the Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI) in Singapore. His work explores the dialogue between traditional Asian performance practices and the principles of performing arts in the 21st century.
Remith’s artistic journey includes collaborations with international theatre companies and artists such as Ariane Mnouchkine & Théâtre du Soleil, ARTA Paris, Encounter Theatre Australia, Potluck Theatre Japan, Undercurrent Theatre Australia, and Théâtre de la Feuille Hong Kong. Associated with The Interlink Theatre, he continues to develop performances and trainings that explore imagination, physicality, and the actor’s presence through traditional techniques of theatre and dance.

CHEKHOV WORLD THEATRE Summer Academy
Hamburg, July 12-18
https://sfsh.de/international-summer-academy/sfsh10042/
Contact: [email protected]

22/05/2026

CHEKHOV WORLD THEATRE - July 12-18, Hamburg
Meet the teachers:
SUZANA NIKOLIĆ, Studio Chekhov Croatia, Zagreb
• Michael Chekhov Technique • Voice and speech

Suzana Nikolić is a full-time professor at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, University of Zagreb. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of Performing Arts StudioChekhov Croatia. Suzana's organizational and production credits include over a dozen international workshops. Suzana has worked with the Michael Chekhov Technique and taught it professionally for more than 25 years and received the MICHA teaching certificate of completion in 2004. In 2004 and 2019 she edited the Croatian translation of Michael Chekhov's To the Actor – On the Technique of Acting.

At the Academy of Dramatic Arts, she was a Vice Dean for International Affairs from 2004-2006, Head of the Voice and Speech Department from 2006-2010, and Head of the Acting Department 2016-2018.

Since 2016, Suzana has been an official faculty member of MICHA, USA. She is a co-founder and member of Michael Chekhov Europe and its international Training Programme.
She graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts, and was a Fulbright scholar at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Graduate Acting Program. She is an award-winning actress with credits in theatre performances, features films, television films & series as well as radio, and has had over 25 years of additional acting and voice training abroad.

Suzana has taught the Chekhov Technique in Europe, America, Israel, and Asia. From 2019 to 2022, she has been teaching the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique at the Shanghai Theatre Academy, China. She reflects her experience in China in her book "Future Actors" which has been published last year.

CHEKHOV WORLD THEATRE Summer Academy
Hamburg, July 12-18
https://sfsh.de/international-summer-academy/sfsh10042/
Contact: [email protected]

16/05/2026

CHEKHOV WORLD THEATRE - July 12-18, Hamburg
Meet the teachers:
JESPER MICHELSEN, Glad Teater Copenhagen, Denmark
• Michael Chekhov Technique • Inclusive theatre

Jesper Michelsen is the co-founder and director of Glad Teater, a professional theatre for actors with disability in Copenhagen. Glad Teater has a widespread reputation for creating exiting experimental and diverse performances. The company works with devising techniques, creating performances that combine the actors’ personal appearance and special talents with a physical approach to theatre. Recently, it has staged outstanding productions of Woyzeck by Georg Büchner and Psychosis 4.48 by Sarah Kane.
Originally trained as an actor, Jesper has been working as an acting coach for theatre, film and music video, theatre director, dramaturge and producer for the last 20 years.
He studied with MICHA (USA) and has been working with the Michael Chekhov Technique in various productions, workshops and programmes since 2006, exploring Chekhov technique also in combination with Meisner technique and Viewpoints.
Jesper is co-founder of Michael Chekhov Europe and artistic co-director of Michael Chekhov Europe Training, where he teaches as part of MCE’s international faculty since 2008. Beside the practical work, Jesper holds a BA in theatre studies and pedagogic from University of Copenhagen.

CHEKHOV WORLD THEATRE Summer Academy
Hamburg, July 12-18
https://sfsh.de/international-summer-academy/sfsh10042/
Contact: [email protected]

28/04/2026

CHEKHOV WORLD THEATRE Summer Academy
July 12-18, 2026 in Hamburg

Michael Chekhov Acting Technique meets
- Organic Breathing & Image Work
- Kutiyattam Traditional Sanskrit Theatre (Kerala, India)
- Physical Theatre and Dance (Southeast Asia, India, Turkey)
- The Actor’s Energy and Presence
- Intercultural Theatre in East Asia, India, Africa, and Europe

Faculty: Jesper Michelsen, Denmark; Remith Ramesh, India; Gülhan Kadim, Turkey; Yiğit Sertdemir, Turkey; Suzana Nikolić, Croatia; Ulrich Meyer-Horsch, Germany; and guest artists from Southern Africa, USA, Singapore, and India

TRAINING for PERFORMERS
This annual intercultural encounter brings performance and training approaches from different continents and backgrounds into a practical exchange. You will intensively study the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique, and at the same time you will be in dialogue with other artistic traditions and performance techniques from around the globe.

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
There will be various workshop tracks in the morning and afternoon, followed by showcases, festival events and open classes in the evening. The daily training sessions can be combined so you will get a sense of each of the offered forms.
The Summer Academy 2026 includes Michael Chekhov Europe’s Training Module 1: Making Contact: Living Images

Full announcement incl. application: https://sfsh.de/international-summer-academy/sfsh10042/
Further information: [email protected]

Intensives Michael‑Chekhov‑Training trifft traditionelle Performance. Workshops, Showcases & interkultureller Austausch.

22/04/2026

Architecture of Performance
Grožnjan, Croatia · August 2026

In this 5-day intensive we focus on the core principles of the Michael Chekhov technique:

– composition
– rhythm & tempo
– improvisation as art
– style and genre

We work psycho-physically, exploring how to shape material — text, movement and space — into a clear and communicative form.

How does performance emerge?
From impulse to structure.
From imagination to form.

Applications are open.
More info via link in comments or DM.

Photo by Sven Mrkonjić

28/01/2026

07/12/2025

Michael Chekhov Europe invites you to its first workshop in the new year:

THE MOVING SPACE: Atmosphere and Playfulness on Stage

with David Zinder, Tel Aviv, Vladimir Baicher, Moscow, Suzana Nikolić, Zagreb, Ulrich Meyer-Horsch, Hamburg

January 29 to February 1, 2026 in Hamburg, Germany

The space on stage is full of life, full of energy and breath. All an actor has to do is connect to this living space.
What happens when we dive into the world of a given play and allow ourselves to be surprised by its specific dynamics, energy, language and space?
Michael Chekhov’s concepts of “Atmosphere” (“the soul of every performance”) and “The Feeling of Ease, Form, Beauty and the Whole” will guide us through this exploration.
Movement in Space – Objective Atmosphere – Spatial Relationship – Personal Atmosphere – Feeling of Ease, Form, Beauty and the Whole – Organic breathing – Playfulness – Ensemble
Michael Chekhov Europe Training – module 2

More information: https://sfsh.de/michael-chekhov-module-2/sfsh10037/
Contact: [email protected]

This in-person workshop can be acknowledged as part of the upcoming MICHA/MCE Teachers Training.

26/11/2025

За првпат во Македонија - официјален модул од програмата Michael Chekhov Europe

Од 26 февруари до 1 март 2026, во Скопје, ќе се оддржи модулот “Psychological Gesture: The Character’s Spine” – клучна алатка од техниката на Михаил Чехов што се предава во европските актерски академии.

Ова е четиридневна програма (10:00–17:00) со практична работа, сценско истражување и алатки за психо-физички пристап кон актерството.

Цели – Архетипни Гестови – Психолошки гест на ликот – Природно дишење - Квалитети на движење - Чувство за леснотија, форма, убавина и целина – Мисловен, чувствен и волев центар - Работа на сцена

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