vakhteryplayback

DEVELOP YOUR EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE THROUGH PERFORMANCE AND CONTEMPORARY ART

Activities

Training

We conduct soft skills training and team building. We use the Playback method and performative art practices. With the means of art, we elaborate on the range of requests: team unity, effective communication, public speaking, and emotional intelligence.

Performances

We organize public performances on different topics regularly. Meet the playback mystery and share your story on our performance. Follow the theater’s Facebook or Instagram to be aware of upcoming events.

Corporate events

We will hold a performance on your birthday, for employees or friends. We will elicit your needs and challenges, set the goals, and analyze the results after.

Online events

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been transforming our processes for real-life challenges.
All of the above can happen online with the same atmosphere and quality.

How does it work?

1

You send request

2

We contact you

3

Create program up to needs

4

Event goes live

About playback

Playback is a theater of improvisation, where the audience sets the drama.

You tell stories, and we transform them into a play of sounds, movements, senses, and emotions immediately. Playback builds trust, identifies conflicts, and makes a lot of fun. Our exercise base is an effective soft skills training program on any topic.

About us

We are a playback theater from Kharkiv with more than 6 years of practice.

Actors passed a special learning program of the method. This means 200 hours of training, personal therapy, and permanent practice. Group consists of certified playback trainers and practitioners. Also, actors have proficiency in diverse side spheres: psychology, management, design, and medicine. This experience allows us to work with any social group, realize its challenges and speak the same language. Theater currently resides in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Are you ready for something special?

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Open to ideas and
collaboration

Blues

Usage:
Form for stories of super disagreement, and confrontation, when it is simply impossible to endure. When there is pain, failure, “mourner”.

Technique:
The music starts. One actor comes to the middle of the stage and sits on a chair – this is the soloist. Then the rest go out and sit in the back in a semicircle – this is the choir. The soloist sings the heart of the story two or three times in the form of a simple chorus. Then, the choir picks up the chorus and begins to sing along with the first one, “lighting the fire” and building up energy, 2-3 more times.
The soloist sings the first verse, revealing in it conditionally the first part of the story/setting/what happened “before”. Then, together with the choir, they sing the chorus again. Then comes the second verse, then the chorus again.
After the 3rd chorus, the music stops and the soloist speaks a monologue about the protagonist in this story.
In the end, the final chorus is sung, as energetically as possible with full dedication to the hall.
The moment the actors enter the soloist at the beginning should be spectacular. Everyone comes out in sync and enters the chorus and into movement filling the space. What is important is the contact of each actor with others (visual, emotional), full dedication, and involvement. The chorus can change its mood (and sometimes even a few words). Music can also slightly change your mood. The musician can sing in this form along with the actors.

Notes:
The hero sings/reads a verse. It is possible in this verse to reveal the state before the conflict. Then they all sing the chorus together, and a new verse, and the chorus again. After that, the verse goes into the heat of negative emotions and is interrupted by monologues in complete silence. The hero breaks out of his seat and says everything in simple but harsh language. He returns to his place and, under the chorus, can still throw in, which is not agreed upon.
The choir supports the soloist, picks him up when he runs out on the verse, reaches the notes on the chorus, gives support with his energy, and directs it to the soloist (and does not look at the floor). It sounds spectacular when the soloist gives out a phrase on a strong beat without pulling it into singing, and the choir picks up and sings. You can experiment with vocals – sing, read, speak. At the intro, if you don’t come up with a chorus, you can give out something simple like a howl in your voice.