(Inter)acting with the Inner Partner
Iso Roobertinkatu 20-22 A, 00120 Helsinki
Kahden päivän kokeilutyöpaja ensikertalaisille. Jos et ole koskaan harjoitellut (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner:ia (eli IwIP), tämä kahden päivän intensiivityöpaja antaa sinulle maistiaisen sen perusperiaatteista ja käytännöistä.
Työkielemme on englanti, mutta voit käyttää mitä tahansa kieltä harjoitellessasi. Puhumme useita kieliä ( kuten mm. englanti, suomi, ruotsi, ranska, tšekki).
Työpajassa on neljä IwIP-sessiota kahden päivän aikana. Teemme lämmittelyharjoituksia ja käymme keskusteluja. Olet tervetullut myös seuraamaan avointa IwIP-harjoittajien tuntia joskus maanantai-iltana. Tämä on ainutlaatuinen mahdollisuus!
Tämän työpajan suoritettuasi sinulla on selkeämpi käsitys siitä, haluatko osallistua koko kauden kestävälle IwIP-johdantokurssille esimerkiksi keväällä 2026.
Lisätietoja IwIP:stä ja työpajojen vetäjistä (englanniksi) alla.
What is (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner?
IwIP is a contemporary movement and action-based solo improvisational discipline. It explores the nature of dialogues in and around us. It offers a holistic (psychosomatic) path of studying and practicing the basic principles and dynamics of creative communication and dramatic play. It is a guided process of coming to know yourself by relating to your inner partners in a performance situation.
What does it mean to be and (inter)act dramatically, playfully, personally, responsibly, and spontaneously in a performance situation?
With a trained teacher, you study and practice how this and other questions relate to core dynamics like dialogue, partnership, conductive empathy, acceptance, freedom, vital energy, suspense, dramatic play, creative existence, and authorship. You continually reflect on your practice through written reflections.
In its broadest sense, IwIP is a path of self-understanding, self-acceptance, and self-realization. In a more focused sense, it is a way of developing psychosomatic fitness and (inter)acting and improvisational skills like offering, noticing, perceiving, accepting, understanding, responding. It has enriched professionals in a range of fields — acting, directing, dance, music, drama, film, pedagogy, somatics, psychology. Through IwIP, we work to cultivate performative well-being as an essential foundation for working and living. In this way, IwIP can provide new veins of creative inspiration in life and in art.
Background on IwIP in Finland
IwIP was originally developed at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague by Professor Ivan Vyskočil. In Finland, IwIP has been inspiring performing artists as well as other professionals since 2008 when Milja Sarkola introduced it into the Finnish performing arts scene. Since 2011, Alexander Komlosi, an actor, teacher and writer, has taught it widely in Finland and has trained other IwIP leaders. He has been practicing IwIP for 27 years and teaching it for 25. Hanna Raiskinmäki, the other workshop leader, is an actor and a Shiatsu practitioner. She has been practicing IwIP for over 18 years, and leading classes for about 10 years.
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 Uniarts 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)
Workshop Teachers:
Alexander Komlosi (CZ/USA), MA, MgA, Ph.D, is an actor, prose writer and IwIP teacher. He studied (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner under Professor Vyskočil, the founder of the discipline, at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and trained under him as a IwIP teacher from 1999-2011. He has been teaching and researching IwIP internationally and developing its pedagogy through workshops and courses: 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 Kulttuuriyhdistys Culture Current ry’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. His most recent performative work is part of Staged Circumstances and Piles of Things, Anna Estarriola’s exhibition at Amos Rex, Helsinki (2025). He recently completed an MA in Creative Writing Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia, UK. In addition to IwIP, he is focusing his creative energies on prose fiction.
Hanna Raiskinmäki (FI) (FI) 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.
Ajankohta: la-su 25.-26.10. klo 10-17
(sis. tunnin lounastauko)
Molempiin päiviin tulee osallistua.
Paikka: Näyttelijäliiton harjoitustilat, Iso Roobertinkatu 20-22 A, 5.krs, 00120 Helsinki
Hinta: 85€
Kurssille mahtuu 11 hlö, kurssi toteutuu jos tulee täyteen.
Sitovat ilmoittautumiset 10.10. mennessä.
