The basis of (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner is the experience and experiencing of action (speaking, playing) with yourself (with your inner partner or partners), as a rule, on your own. After some self-reflection, each one of you should be able to recall the experience of talking to yourself or playing on your own with your self. (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner is about studying and learning how to engage in similarly authentic, spontaneous, playful and co-playful action (behavior and experiencing); generating this behavior in public in the presence and attention of “spectators” in a situation of “public solitude” (Stanislavsky), where we do not contact the onlookers in any way (visually or physically), “as if” they weren’t present.
-Ivan Vyskočil (creator of the discipline)
spring 2025
February – May
1. (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner for Beginning Practitioners
- Weekly (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner practice sessions for beginning students new to the practice.
- Thursday evenings. February 20–May 22, 2025.
- Sign up deadline February 9, 2025.
2. (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner Workshop
- Weekly IwIP practice sessions in a co-led workshop format for continuing IwIP
practitioners. Some sessions will be led by Alexander Komlosi, some co-led by the group. - Monday evenings. February 10—May 19, 2025.
- Sign up deadline January 26, 2025.
3. (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner Saturdays
- For continuing practitioners led by Hanna Raiskinmäki.
- Twice a month on Saturday mornings. February 15—May 24, 2025.
- Sign up deadline February 7, 2025.
You are welcome to attend all courses you are eligible for.
Please note that each course is exclusive to the students who have registered for that course. “Hopping” back and forth between courses is not permitted. ☺
Sign up is first come, first serve!
Please scroll down for more info and links to sign up…
1. (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner for Beginning Practitioners
What? Weekly (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner (IwIP) practice sessions for beginning students new to the practice.
You will be introduced to (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner’s fundamental principles and practices. We will do warm-ups and have discussions and exercises about performative well-being and performative being. We recommend you write regular reflections on your practice. The course will be led by Alexander Komlosi with guest teaching by other experienced IwIP practitioners (see bios at end of this page). This will give you multiple perspectives on your IwIP practice. After you complete this course, you will be eligible to continue your IwIP studies in courses for continuing practitioners.
For more information about (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner, check out these links…
- Culture Current’s Most Recent Artistic Project Based on IwIP — Openings
- Information about (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner Practice and Its Founder
- Sample of IwIP Practice (video, 5 min)
- Course Description of IwIP at Unarts Helsinki — Theatre Faculty
- Examples of IwIP applied in Finnish Art and Culture
Postia Eva Dahlgrenille (performance)
(Intera)cting with the Inner Partner As An Artistic Question (course at Zodiak)
Extra Material (performance)
Teatteri Takomo — Institute Trilogy (performance)
Hucky Honolulu (online and onsite performance)
Aimed for: Anyone interested in dramatic play, improvisation, performance, self-understanding, self-acceptance, communication skills, well-being, somatics and IwIP.
Eligibility: Adults over 18 years of age. You have never practiced (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner before. No previous experience in theatre, improvisation, or any other practice required. Participants come from all walks of life, ages, and interests. A diverse group in all senses of the word is hoped for and welcome!
Applicants are required to send in application materials. See “Signing-up” below.
Goals:
- Develop a basic psychosomatic understanding of the principles and practices of IwIP
- Dramatic play
- Develop your performing self and performative fitness
- Explore performative being
- Cultivate personal and group well-being
- Develop improvisational skills
- Initial insights into yourself as a multiplicity of psychosomatic perspectives
- Fun
Teachers: Alexander Komlosi (main teacher) as well as guests teachers including (depending on availability) Ingrid André, Vesa Kantola, Esko Nuutila, Hanna Raiskinmäki, Jenni-Elina von Bagh. See bios at end of this page.
Language: We will teach in English, but you are welcome to use any language while you perform and practice. The teachers speak many languages (English, Finnish, Swedish, French, Czech).
Timetable
Thursdays once a week, 17.30-20.
February 20 – May 22, 2025. Weeks 8-17, 19-21. (No session week 18.)
Total 13 x 2,5h sessions (total 32.5h)
Group size: Min 5, Max 11.
Course fees
Regular rates
Culture Current supporting members: 340€
Non-members: 350€
Discounted rates
Special limited-time 50% off regular rates for the unemployed or students interested in trying IwIP for the first time.
In order to qualify for the discounted rate, you must provide proof of being unemployed (a registered job-seeker at TE-Toimisto) or a full-time student with your application. Please pay the regular rate if you can afford it 🙂
Culture Current supporting members: 170€
Non-members: 175€
No refunds or credit once the payment has been made.
Payment will be due by February 19, 2025. Culture Current ry will bill you once the course is confirmed. If you would like to request paying in installments, please let us know that when you sign up.
Become a Culture Current Member!
If you are not a Culture Current supporting member and would like to become one, membership starts at 25€/year. It entitles you to discounts on CC's courses and more. Click here for more info about becoming a supporting member.
Location
Studio space in downtown Helsinki or Sörönainen area. Exact location to be announced.
Sign-up Deadline: February 9, 2025
Signing Up:
1) Complete the sign-up form at the SIGN UP link below.
2) Please email us the following: one-page letter introducing yourself, how you heard about IwIP, and your motivation for participating in the course (in English).
3) a CV (English, Finnish or Swedish).
4) If you are applying for an unemployed or student discount, proof of unemployed or students status.
Email your application materials to: info[at]culturecurrent.org before the deadline. We will confirm receipt of your email in 2-3 working days.
Sign up is first come, first serve! Please sign up as soon as possible.
The course will be confirmed by February 14, 2025.
Feel free to contact us with any questions info[at]culturecurrent.org
If you would like to sign up, please click below.
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2. (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner Workshop
What? Weekly IwIP practice sessions in a co-led workshop format for continuing IwIP practitioners. About half the sessions will be led by Alexander Komlosi, the other co-led by the group. We will also have warm-ups, group discussions and exercises relating to performative well-being and performative being. If the group agrees, we will have a public open session.
Eligibility: You have participated in at least 2 seasons (about 30 sessions) of IwIP.
Please Note: By participating in this workshop, you agree to participate in the co-led sessions where we all give and receive feedback from one another. The group has been working in this manner for the past three seasons. Feel free to contact Alex with any questions about participating.
Aimed for: Anyone interested in IwIP, open improvisation, performance, well-being, and giving and receiving feedback on IwIP practice from other members of the group.
Goals:
- Expand and diversify your IwIP practice
- Develop your ability to give supportively critical and encouraging reflections on others IwIP practice.
- Dramatic play
- Develop your performing self and performative fitness
- Explore performative being
- Cultivate personal and group well-being
- Develop IwIP practice and improvisational skills
- Fun
Main Teacher: Alexander Komlosi for about half the sessions. Otherwise co-led by all group members based on collectively agreed principles and practices. See bios at end of page.
Language: Alex will teach in English, but you are welcome to use any language while you perform and practice. We alternate between Finnish and English as needed when giving feedback as a group.
Timetable
Mondays once a week, 17.30-20.
February 10—May 19, 2025. Weeks 7-16 and 18-21. (No session week 17.)
Total 14 x 2,5h sessions (total 35h)
Group size: Min 5, Max 10.
Workshop Fees
Culture Current supporting members: 200€
Non-members: 210€
The workshop fee has been reduced because half the sessions will be co-led by group members. There are no other discounts for this course.
No refunds or credit once the payment has been made.
Payment will be due by February 7, 2025. Culture Current ry will bill you when the course is confirmed. If you would like to request paying in installments, please note that when you sign up.
Become a Culture Current Member!
If you are not a Culture Current supporting member and would like to become one, membership starts at 25€/year. It entitles you to discounts on CC's courses and more.
Location
DuvTeatern Studio, Georgsgatan 18 A, Helsinki.
Sign-up Deadline: January 26, 2025
Sign up is first come, first serve! Please sign up as soon as possible.
Preference will be given to folks who have been practicing in the group in the past year and others IwIP in the past two years.
The course will be confirmed by January 31, 2025.
If you would like to sign up, please click below.
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3. (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner Saturdays
What? IwIP practice sessions twice a month.
Aimed for: People interested in developing their IwIP practice.
Eligibility: You have participated in an introductory IwIP course (minimum 8 sessions).
Goals:
- Develop IwIP practice and improvisational skills
- Dramatic play
- Develop your performing self
- Fun
Teacher: Hanna Raiskinmäki. See bio at end of page.
Language: Hanna will teach in Finnish and English as needed. You are welcome to use any language while you perform and practice.
Timetable
Saturdays from 10AM-12PM.
February 15 – May 24, 2023
Weeks 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, 17, 19, 21. (15.2., 1.3., 15.3., 29.3., 5.4., 26.4., 10.5., 24.5.)
Total 8 x 2h sessions (total 16h).
Group size: Min 5, Max 11.
Course Fees
Regular rates
Culture Current supporting members: 180€
Non-members: 190€
Discounted rates
In order to qualify for the discounted rate, you need to be able to provide proof of being unemployed (a registered job-seeker at TE-Toimisto) or a full-time student. Please pay the regular rate if you can afford it 🙂
Culture Current supporting members: 130€
Non-members: 140€
No refunds or credit once the payment has been made.
Payment will be due by February 14, 2025. Culture Current ry will bill you when the course is confirmed. If you would like to request paying in installments, please note that when you sign up.
Become a Culture Current Member!
If you are not a Culture Current supporting member and would like to become one, membership starts at 25€/year. It entitles you to discounts on CC's courses and more.
Location
DuvTeatern Studio, Georgsgatan 18 A, Helsinki.
Sign-up Deadline: February 7, 2025
Sign up is first come, first serve! Please sign up as soon as possible.
Preference will be given to folks who have been practicing in the group in the year and others IwIP in the past two years.
The course will be confirmed by February 10, 2025.
If you would like to sign up, please click below.
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Teachers’ Bios (alphabetical order)
Ingrid André works across dance, art and psychosomatic practices engaging a shift in perception. She is curious about remaining present to one’s interiority and expressing what lies beyond familiarity. She discovered IwIP in 2015 while working as one of the performers in a contemporary piece with Hanna Räiskimäki and gradually joined the practice. In IwIP, Ingrid finds an insightful mix of performance, well-being and artistic research while always being surprised by the dialogues within herself. Ingrid is engaged in artistic collaborations in France and Finland while working to bring performative and art practices to social organisations that promote mental health via creative practices. This is the first IwIP course she will be co-leading.
Vesa Kantola has film background in directing, producing and script writing long documentaries. He has been teaching at the Helsinki institute of technology as a senior lecturer of visual communication over 25 years. He teaches two courses at Aalto University. He has scientific publications about interactive theatre and gaming in design. He has practiced (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner (IwIP) since 2014 with Alex and co-taught an IwIP course with him at Aalto University as well as other IwIP courses.
Alexander Komlosi studied (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner under Professor Vyskočil, the founder of the discipline, at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague for 13 years, and trained under him as an IwIP teacher (1998-2011). He has been teaching IwIP internationally and developing its pedagogy since 1999 through workshops and courses at Academy of Performing Arts in Prague; University of Arts Helsinki – Departments of Drama Pedagogy, Swedish-speaking Acting, Dance, and Open University; Tampere University – Näty; Aalto University; Takomo Theatre; Valtimon Theater; the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki; Adult Education Center Helsinki; Columbia University; New York University/Tisch; Yale University; University of Colorado - Boulder; Rose Bruford College; and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; and as part of Culture Current’s educational program. He has taught and trained the other IwIP teachers in Finland, encouraging them to take IwIP in their own directions. As an actor, he has performed internationally. He recently completed an MA in Creative Writing Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia, UK. Now, he is focusing his creative energies on prose fiction.
Esko Nuutila had a long career as a university scientist and teacher, and now works in a startup as a software developer. He has been practicing IwIP intensively since 2015 under the supervision of Alexander Komlosi. Esko is interested in somatic fitness in its various forms. In addition to practicing IwIP, Esko teaches tai chi chuan and is a certified Feldenkrais practitioner. He has co-led numerous IwIP courses.
Hanna Raiskinmäki is an actor and a Shiatsu practitioner. She has been practicing IwIP for over 18 years, and leading classes for about 10 years. The most important teachers and colleagues in IwIP have been Alexander Komlosi and Milja Sarkola as well as the whole working group which has been meeting regularly for ten years. She has been experimenting IwIP with her theater and performing arts work. Her latest performance experiments have been in Institute Trilogy, convened by Joanna Haartti’, in Teatteri Takomo and Extramaterial in Viirus Theater with Jenni-Elina von Bagh. She has led and co-led many IwIP courses.
Jenni-Elina von Bagh is a choreographer and dancer-performer based in Helsinki. She works in different collaborations in the field of contemporary performance and creates her own choreographic works, both nationally and internationally artistically travelling between dance, theatre, and arts. Her most recent works are “Void- A Psychodrama” (2021) and “A Prologue” (2020). She has been practicing IwIP for over 10 years, and has lead classes for a few years. She finds IwIP to be a source for personal wellbeing, but most importantly, a rich source for practicing creativity and personal / collective artistry. She began her tenure as Artistic Director of Zodiak – Center for New Dance in 2023. She has co-led many IwIP courses.
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