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NEWS: Culture Teatrali Special issue on Theatre and Neuroscience -- article by Madeleine Barchevska (in English)

"BioArt Training :  The First Building Block of a Newly Powerful Theatre.A practitioner's remarks about mirror neurons and the scientific andartistic implications of the discovery."    Published 12/08. 
...read the full article in English (PDF)

BioArt Theatre Laboratories has developed an art-and-science approach to teaching communication skills. It offers both verbal and non-verbal training for executives, teachers, medical and legal professionals, performing artists and communicators in a wide variety of fields.

Easy, practical and non-threatening exercises open the invisible barriers in your nervous system caused by early conditioning and negative stress. Feel empowered as your perceptive awareness is fully restored, sharpening intelligence, stretching your adaptive flexibility. Expand your ability to recognize context and command clarity of personal expression.

Experience growth and refined maturity in both your personal and professional life with BioArt Theatre Laboratories techniques and training workshops. At a personal level, find new confidence and enhanced self-image.  Professionally, the workshops will help you master communication and interpersonal skills, increasing productivity and satisfaction, perspective and insight.

Workshops of six hours developed by BioArt Founder Madeleine Barchevska apply a sequence of exercises that "flip the perceptual switch" in participants' awareness. "Discovering that 'switch' and giving its control back to the person is one of my great joys," says Barchevska.

BioArt Theatre Laboratories provides tailored training:

• Management training: Workshops in Executive Presence
• Keystone Training for Actors
• Keystone Training for Teachers

The BioArt Story

Madeleine Barchevska, the founder of BioArt Theatre Laboratories, Inc., has received recognition from both the French and U.S. governments for her work in cultivating human presence and communicative capacity. Her teaching approach and philosophy have been successfully applied in education, business, diplomacy, and the arts.

Barchevska originally founded BioArt Theatre Laboratories in New York in 1988, as a tool for actors to increase their perceptual impact and aesthetic capacity. After the death of her trainer and teacher, Clyde Vinson, one year later, she broadened the scope of the work to other fields.

In 1993, Barchevska was invited to France by the French consulate in New York, to apply her work in the fields of education, medicine and the performing arts. Later, in 1995, Barchevska participated in the creation of the new academic discipline of "Ethnoscenology", the study of organized human performing behaviors.

BioArt Theatre Laboratoriesis a research affiliate of The University of Paris VIII, The International Theatre Institute and UNESCO. Barchevska has earned awards from the US National Endowment for the Arts, the French Ministry of Culture and others (see below) and has consulted for IBM, MasterCard and VeriFone/Hewlett Packard, Toshiba, AVID, ADOBE, Pinnacle and others .   Over 2000 clients and students worldwide have enjoyed BioArt training.

Barchevska Special Training

BioArt Theatre Laboratories

Board of Directors

• Robert J. Petlock, Denver, CO.
• R. Arlen Johnson, Esq., Milford, MA.
• Ruth A. Stolk, Washington DC.

Art and Science Advisory Panel

• Jean-Marie Pradier, PhD, University of Paris VIII, Saint Denis, Theatre and Ethnoscenology
• Susana Bloch, PhD, Santiago, Chile, Neuroscience
• Lourdes Arispe, PhD, University of Mexico, Anthropology

Grants, Awards and Honors

• Presentation by invitation, University of Bologna (2007), theatre and neuroscience
• Presentation by invitation, ‘Acting for non-actors’, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme/Paris Nord (2006)
• Inaugural Member, International Center of Ethnoscenology (UNESCO) Paris, for the study of the anthropological and biological foundations of organized human performing behaviors and practices (1995)
• Invited member: Groupe de Recherche sur les Comportements Humains Spectaculaires Organisés of the University of Paris VIII for an interdisciplinary approach to teaching behavioral aesthetics (1995)
• Teaching and research project funded by French Consulate, New York (1993)
• Teachers Grant for Research and Development from the Arkandor Foundation, Canada, for work in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on war trauma in civilian populations (1993)
• Permanent member, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Pratiques Spectaculaires, University of Paris VIII (1991)

Barchevska Performance CV

 Past Articles, Italy, June 1, 2007 (English and French translations)