Co-Arts Trainings
Vocal Training and Its Gesture
Speech technique with Márta Kelemen & Michael Chekhov Acting Technique® with Levente Turóczi. 13-14 February 2027. Two-day intensive course on natural breathing, voice production, and the atmosphere-generating power of sound.
Quotes on Speech and Voice
"Speech as 'embodied gesture' is the highest of all... Speech that is not embodied gesture is as if it did not stand on solid ground."
"The paradox is that actors must train their voice so that they can sacrifice it. The actor's voice must learn to dissolve into the impulse of thought and feeling."
Participation Fees & Registration
Participation in this intensive training requires filling in the registration form and transferring the course fee. The training is limited to a maximum of 16 participants.
Discounted Participation Fee
Full Participation Fee
Key Course Information
- Dates
- 13-14 February 2027
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- Event page on Facebook
- Tutors
- Márta Kelemen (Speech & Voice Technique) & Levente Turóczi (Chekhov Technique)
- Capacity
- Maximum 16 participants
- Registration Deadline
- 4 February 2027 (Early Bird: 31 December 2026)
- Clothing
- Loose, comfortable training clothing recommended
Detailed Course Syllabus & Programme
Two Complementary Pillars of the Two-Day Intensive
The course is built upon two organically connected pillars: the voice and speech workshop based on anatomical and phoniatric principles with Márta Kelemen, and the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique® with Levente Turóczi.
The Voice as Gesture Module
Participants discover and experience the harmony of the threefold unity of the body: thinking, feeling, and willing:
- the atmosphere-generating power of voice
- gestures associated with individual sounds
- archetypal sounds of psychological gestures
- the character-shaping power of voice through perception and radiation
All explored through the exercises of the Michael Chekhov technique (e.g. Joerg Andrees, David Zinder, Christiane Goerner, Sarah Kane), working individually, in pairs, and as an ensemble.
Speech Technique & Voice Training Module
Participants discover their natural breathing, voice production, and articulation in order to command their vocal instrument in accordance with stage presence and dramatic situation.
Rhythm, breathing, vocal, and articulation exercises activate and develop individual, partner, and ensemble work:
- the whole body,
- the entire creative personality,
- and all faculties involved in human vocal production and speech creation,
used in theatrical performance or in daily professional life.
The exercises are drawn from Hungarian and international methods (including Linklater, Voice Gym, Alexander, Montágh, and Fischer).
Daily Schedule
Course dates: 13-14 February 2027
- 13 February 2027 – 10:00 - 18:30
- 10:00 - 13:00 – Voice as Gesture (Levente Turóczi)
- Lunch break
- 14:30 - 16:15 – Voice as Gesture (Levente Turóczi)
- Break
- 16:30 - 18:30 – Speech Technique & Voice Training (Márta Kelemen)
- 14 February 2027
- 10:00 - 13:00 – Voice as Gesture (Levente Turóczi)
- Lunch break
- 14:30 - 16:30 – Speech Technique & Voice Training (Márta Kelemen)
- Break
- 16:45 - 18:00 – Voice as Gesture (Levente Turóczi)
Who Is This Course For?
The workshop is open to theatre professionals and enthusiastic practitioners alike:
- professional actors and acting students
- amateur actors and performers interested in physical and vocal methods
- theatre professionals and artists (directors, writers, dramaturgs, designers)
- artists working in other performing arts disciplines (singers, musicians, dancers, circus artists)
- speech therapists and voice pathology professionals
- students of speech and language pathology
- voice coaches and speech teachers
- anyone dedicated to personal vocal and expressive growth
Practical Information & Requirements
The workshop is strictly limited to 16 participants.
Participants are advised to arrive in comfortable, loose clothing to move freely during physical exercises and experience how the body operates as an instrument of speech.
Participation requires completing the online registration form and transferring the workshop fee.
Registration deadline: 4 February 2027.
About the Training
The Michael Chekhov Acting Technique® equips the actor with practical tools that lead directly to the genuine expression of their personal creativity and artistic capabilities.
It simultaneously develops conscious presence, creative will, and refined sensitivity.
This process activates both familiar and latent capacities in the performer, taking them beyond their habitual limitations into a state of total ease and naturalness. Its impact is immediate.
The actor learns to trust their own inspiration and capabilities, approaching everyone as a free creative artist.
One of its primary tools is imagination – awakening the imaginative faculty and creating living atmosphere. The actor can use an imaginary body or psychological gesture to build and inhabit a character, discovering its movement, speech, inner feelings, and the world in which the character exists.
Tutors
Levente Turóczi
Márta Kelemen
Moments from the Atelier
Vocal Training and Its Gesture
Vocal Training and Its Gesture
Vocal Training and Its Gesture
Vocal Training and Its Gesture
Vocal Training and Its Gesture
Participant Feedback
"All-encompassing expertise combined with a safe, supportive atmosphere. I was enriched with experiences and insights that are truly unique and special."
"You know that feeling after trying a new kind of movement: 'Wait, I have a muscle there too?' After a Chekhov course, that was exactly how I marveled at my mental muscles. Sometimes the realization hit in the moment, sometimes as a delayed effect in an ordinary everyday situation. It is a fantastic sensation to experience myself and my surroundings differently."
"During the workshop you receive something intangible that liberates you, no matter which ring of the tree of life you happen to be on—at the base, at the top, or right in the middle. You tire physically, but you become liberated mentally. From outside, from the infinite space of the universe, you draw in liberating energies, and once you have settled them inside yourself, you add a little of your own essence and open out toward the world around you."
"Why do I recommend it? Because you cannot imagine in advance what you will receive here. And when you finally do, you feel you have been enriched by something extraordinary, something entirely new. You do not leave a training as the same person you were when you arrived, which I find truly exciting."
Application and Contact
Are you interested in the course, or would you like to receive more detailed information about the speech technique and psychophysical workshop work? Fill in the application form or get in touch with us!