Key voices of contemporary European theatre entering the studio online:

Matija Ferlin
Croatian choreographer and performance artist working at the intersection of dance, theatre, and conceptual performance, often engaging with memory, repetition, and autobiographical structures.

Heiner Goebbels
German composer and theatre director whose work redefines music theatre through postdramatic forms, complex soundscapes, and the decentering of narrative and performer.

Stefan Kaegi
Swiss theatre director and co-founder of Rimini Protokoll, internationally known for documentary and participatory theatre involving non-professional performers and real social systems.

Boris Nikitin
Theatre director and performer working with documentary strategies, identity construction, and the exposure of theatrical conventions within contemporary performance.

Milo Rau
Swiss theatre director and writer whose politically engaged work combines documentary theatre, reenactment, and institutional critique.

Artyom Tomilov
Theatre director and curator associated with experimental and interdisciplinary performance practices at the intersection of theatre, visual art, and research-based formats.

Dmitry Volkostrelov
Theatre director and founder of post-theatre, known for minimalist, conceptual works exploring temporality, attention, and the limits of theatrical action.

Theater and performing arts practitioners

Actors, directors, performers, choreographers, and movement-based artists, as well as those who intend to connect their lives with performative practices — theatre, performance art, cinema, and related disciplines.

Those who are searching for ways to speak about themselves and the world; who are looking for their own language and are already in an ongoing artistic process.

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Interdisciplinary artists

Artists and practitioners from related fields — visual arts, music, photography, design, architecture, research, media — who are drawn to performative forms, corporeality, space, and presence.

They come from different systems of coordinates in order to encounter new modes of expression and collective work.

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Writers, curators, researchers

Dramaturgs, screenwriters, curators, critics, anthropologists, psychologists, and researchers who wish to translate analytical and textual practices into action.

Those who want to stop observing from a distance and start thinking through the body, testing their ideas within a living, collective process.

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Newcomers and curious minds

Individuals from non-artistic backgrounds: IT, business, medicine, service, or any other field, who feel an inner necessity to encounter art from the inside.

Those who have never stepped onto a stage but are ready to challenge their daily routine and comfort zone.

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Participants should be ready to experiment, perceive, share experience, and work collectively over an extended period of time.

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Age: up to 38 (recommended). Primarily based in Armenia.

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This program may not be a good fit for:

you are not interested in questioning your own ways of making theatre
you are seeking fixed answers, ready-made methods, or stable hierarchies
you prefer predictability and predefined outcomes over experimentation
you are unable to commit to an intensive, full-time, on-site process

Participants will develop capacity to:

• work within ensemble-based processes of co-research and co-creation, sustaining shared responsibility and collective authorship

• navigate contemporary theatre as a field, recognizing its key tensions, trajectories, and positions rather than fixed canons

• use presence, attention, and corporeality as primary performative material, not as expression but as compositional tools

• engage space as an active collaborator, transforming environments into dramaturgical and performative situations

• form, test, and articulate performative ideas through practice, moving from impulse toward structured propositions

• work with dramaturgy and performative writing as living material, integrating writing into action, rehearsal, and thinking-in-time

Participation in the practicum offers entry into a broader artistic ecosystem and a range of possible trajectories beyond the program itself:

• continued work in laboratory formats, including further practice within the Études lab at hosq (May 2026)
• the opportunity to have their performance included in the Chronofest 2026 program.
• potential invitations to projects of the Chronotope Theatre Company.
• ongoing artistic development within both local and international contexts.
• access to a growing professional network of participants, artists, and collaborators.

Participation in the practicum may also include:

• a certificate of participation.
• possible letters of recommendation from the mentors.