Some impressions of Olga Popova, dancer and actress, about her stay at Schauspielhaus Graz, Austria.
During my stay at schauspielhaus Graz I tried to see all performances that were produced by the time of my internship to give myself general and more precise idea about the theatre in Europe.
So one evening I went to see «Volpone oder der Fuchs». As I was sitting in a forth row just in front of the actors - I could see every smallest detail of an actor’s play and the form of the performance, and the way how the characters were created were totally new to me. What I have discovered was that although it was mainly a form used I could still see real people on the stage due to the details that actors had put in it. Especially I liked Volpone's character created by Andri Schenardi, actually I liked it so much that I couldn’t miss a chance to talk to Andri about his role and how he has developed it.
So we had a coffe together and Andri told me so many nice things about how he uses body language and how he came across creation of all these tiny and beautiful details for the character (my favourite one is when Volpone licking his fingers like a fox after slip) and at one point I realized that my impression of the performance has a connection with my overall impression from the stay at Graz theatre as it was a lot about body language: I do not understand German and even though all performances and rehearsals were in German - I think it actually helped me to notice little details of a body language and see how we can develop it and use it while creating a character wich helped me to understand some things I have been walking around in circles but couldn't find a proper answer for myself.
So I probably could describe my stay in Graz as “answering my inner questions experience” answers to which are sometimes placed in the body not in the words that the body produces.
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| Andri Schenardi and Benedikt Greiner in "Volpone" /
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| Julia Gräfner, Franz Xaver Zach and Andri Schenardi in "Volpone" /
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