HELMIME Mime Workshops

Description

With different mime techniques, we can create illusions, make invisible visible and play with imaginary objects, partners and powers. To succeed in these, a mime needs strong body control and knowledge of movement patterns that are rarely used in everyday life: waves, isolations and the fixpoint, not forgetting nonverbal expression and storytelling.

Would you like to have a mime workshop, class or consultation for your performing arts company or for example your work or hobby group? We give mime workshops of different length to different groups also by your wishes, just contact helmime@auraco.fi!

Past workshops

10–11 Jun 2023
Contemporary Mime Workshop, TribalDanceCenter, Helsinki
1–2 Oct 2022
Mime Workshop, TribalDanceCenter, Helsinki
1–2 Oct 2022
Contemporary Mime Workshop, TEP39, Prague, Czechia
19–20 Oct 2019
Contemporary Mime Workshop, TribalDanceCenter, Helsinki
14–15 Apr 2018
Mime Workshop 2, Studio Attitude KS, Helsinki
20–21 Jan 2018
Mime Workshop 1, Studio Attitude KS, Helsinki
25–26 Nov 2017
Mime Workshop 1, Studio Attitude KS, Helsinki

Teachers

Kati Lehtola

Kati Lehtola is a dance and mime artist who studied mime in Die Etage, a school of performing arts in Berlin. Her main teacher was Anke Gerber, who is one of the most respected mimes in Germany and Central Europe. Alongside different styles of mime (like Marcel Marceau’s or Étienne Decroux’s), the studies were composed of dance, Commedia dell’Arte and other forms of physical theatre. The education gave a strong technical base and a bit anarchistic attitude towards mime. Kati also has a blog about mime in Finnish.

Eliška Kasprzyk

Eliška Kasprzyk is a Czech artist who finished her master’s degree in nonverbal theatre at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 2018. Meanwile she was teaching in two new circus centres in Prague for two years, while performing with a physical theatre/circus company Vít Neznal a kol. She has also played violin and sung in a folk-core band in Prague, and given her own workshops focusing on opening creativity, voice and body as a complete instrument of an actor and creator. She likes to dive deep into our subconsciousness to find out the real treasures that we can use in performing but also in our ordinary lives.

Tomaš Kasprzyk

MgA. (MA) Tomaš Kasprzyk is a mime, a teacher and a drummer. He started learning and performing as a mime when he was 5 years old. He learned the basics from his father Miro Kasprzyk and advanced mime techniques from the Czech mime Michal Hecht. He studied mime at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (HAMU), Department of Mime, where he did his master’s degree under Radim Vizvary and had workshops with Lionel Menard, Greg Goldstone, James Donlon, Anke Gerber, Steve Wasson and Corinne Soum. He also worked on a performance with the legendary mime Milan Sladek. Nowadays he mainly focuses on teaching contemporary mime and the core of acting and improvisation to non-actors and professionals as well.