Fundamentals of Character Building – Module 3
Character Building – Center – Michael Chekhov Acting Technique® – Module 3
Every character has one or more centers that determine all their actions. Activity originates from here, radiating intentions outward. The determining role of the character's center on its atmosphere, actions, emanation, and environment. Directions, intentions, constant and changing centers, the relationship between actor and character, the role and use of masks, and the impact of the center on the scene and audience.
Date & Registration
- Date
- 21 November 2026
- Location
- Kiscelli Education and Cultural Center, Budapest, Kiscelli utca 104.
- Duration
- one training day, 10:00-17:00
- Organizers
- Michael Chekhov Studio, Levente Turóczi, Kiscelli Education and Cultural Center
- Price
- 28 000 Ft / module, 115 000 Ft for all 5 modules
- Registration
- Online registration form
- Facebook Event
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Character Building – Center (character and actor center)
Every character has one or more centers that determine all their actions. Activity originates from here, radiating intentions outward.
The determining role of the character's center on its atmosphere, actions, emanation, and environment. Directions, intentions, constant and changing centers, the relationship between actor and character, the role and use of masks, and the impact of the center on the scene and audience.
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Registration: Online registration form
The Michael Chekhov Acting Technique® focuses on the creative power of the imagination and the living presence of the human threefold unity (thinking, sensing, acting). During the exercises, it activates not only abilities that the actor consciously uses, but also surfaces hidden potential to enrich their existing expressive palette.
The Michael Chekhov Acting Technique® views the actor not merely as an individual player, but as a whole created together with other actors and the environment (space, time, lights, sounds, scents, colors…).
The complete 5-module training provides comprehensive, essential knowledge of the Michael Chekhov method, placing practical exercises into participants' hands that can be applied immediately in daily work.
Each module spans one full training day, 10:00-17:00, forming a comprehensive standalone unit on its topic. Choosing any single module offers immediate insight into the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique® and its unique practical approach. Through individual and group exercises, participants experience and internalize the method through the unity of thinking, sensing, and acting. Completing several modules provides comprehensive mastery through direct personal practice.
The modules explore individual and ensemble character-building opportunities through the practical application of core elements of the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique®.
Participants completing the entire training series receive a certificate of completion.
About the Training
The Michael Chekhov Acting Technique® provides the actor with practical tools that lead directly to the genuine expression of their personal abilities and individual creativity.
Simultaneously, it develops the actor's conscious presence, creative willpower, and sensory perception.
This process activates every known and hitherto hidden ability of the actor, carrying them beyond their perceived limits into a state of complete "naturalness". Its effect is immediately tangible.
The actor learns to trust their own inspirations and creative capacities, viewing everyone as a free creative artist.
One of its primary instruments is imagination — activating imaginative power and cultivating atmosphere. The actor can engage an Imaginary Body or Psychophysical Gesture to form and explore character, discovering movement, voice, inner feelings, and the surrounding world in which that character lives.
Workshop Introduction – Michael Chekhov Acting Technique®
About the modular training: Fundamentals of Character Building
The modules can be completed in any order.
Each module comprises one full training day.
The training can be conducted in both Hungarian and English. For training days held in other languages, an interpreter is required.
Modules can be taken individually, grouped together, or completed all at once over consecutive days.
About the Trainer
I am Levente Turóczi.
Trainer, clown, actor, coach
For more than 15 years I have been working in drama and play pedagogy and the development of emotional intelligence. I lead trainings for actors, executives, educators, adult education professionals, and university students. I have served as a scout leader, monk, computer scientist, teacher, and foundation director.
Currently I work as a trainer, actor, and clown (Kvazi clown).
I graduated in Clown Specialization from the Baross Imre Circus Arts School Artist Academy and obtained my Chekhov teacher qualification at the Michael Chekhov International Academy in Berlin.
Background and experience:
- **Authentic Play and Joie de Vivre** – Angela Halvorsen Bogo – 2016 – **Physical theatre, play and presence, clown technique**
- **International Clown Camp** – Szarvas – 2017 – **Actor training**
- **Commedia dell'Arte** – 2018 – **Actor training**
- **Suzuki** – 2018 – **Physical theatre, actor training**
- **Commedia dell'Arte** – 2018 – **Actor training**
- **Clown workshop** – Davide Larible – 2018 – **Clown and actor training**
- **Contact improvisation** – Kontaktland – 2018 – **Contact dance**
- **Land-Art** – Kontaktland – 2018 – **Art created with and within nature**
- **Lecoq workshop** – Paola Rizza – 2022 – Physical theatre, actor training
Registration and Contact
Register for the Center module via the online registration form, follow the Facebook event, or get in touch with us!