Jurij Alschitz
Quantum-Training
Jurij Alschitz introduces
QUANTUM PEDAGOGY for Theatre
The Actor in Superposition
A two-day seminar for actors, directors, and teachers who feel that linear thinking no longer corresponds to contemporary creative processes, and who are seeking a different way of working with knowledge, presence, and responsibility.
For many years I have worked as a teacher and trainer, and increasingly I feel that classical models no longer explain what truly occurs between teacher, student, and the learning process itself. Quantum training is my personal field of reflection and practice — an attempt to reconsider knowledge, the lesson, training, and the responsibility of the teacher.
This seminar does not offer answers. It offers a change of position and an experience that each participant undergoes in their own way.
Dr. Jurij Alschitz
Why quantum?
Because linear thinking is no longer sufficient. Fixed methods and ready-made structures often fail to respond to the complexity of contemporary creative work. Quantum pedagogy begins where learning is no longer understood as the transmission of knowledge, but as the creation of a shared field — of attention, energy, and relationships.
Quantum Training contextualises ‘quantum concepts’ with acting practice and explores how the application of quantum physics principles can change the actor’s perception and methods.
This is the first public format in which quantum pedagogy and quantum training are brought together. This unique research by Dr Jurij Alschitz does not simply establish a new method or technique, but rather opens up a change of perspective, which leads to a shift in how learning and creative work are understood.
SEMINAR STRUCTURE
DAY 1 — QUANTUM PEDAGOGY
The first day is devoted to rethinking pedagogy itself. In this context, we want to consider conducting rehearsals as a pedagogical process.
At its core are four fundamental questions that challenge habitual views on teaching, learning and rehearsing.
- Quantum pedagogy — what is the essential difference?
We will compare educational approaches, but not at the level of terminology. Our interest will focus on the level of thinking and in relation to the different processes. It is not a question of rejecting existing educational systems, rather of examining their limitations and the need for a different perspective in contemporary creative education. - Knowledge in quantum pedagogy.
We reconsider the concept of knowledge itself.
How does knowledge arise? Can it truly be transmitted?
What distinguishes lived, embodied knowledge from information? - The role of the teacher. The role of the director
In quantum pedagogy, the teacher/director is no longer the central authority of control and certainty.
The teacher is not the one who “possesses” knowledge, but the one who creates the conditions in which knowledge and creation can emerge. - The student and the lesson.
The student is approached not as an object of instruction, but as a living, developing system.
A lesson is not a sequence of predefined steps, not the execution of a programme, and not a movement toward a predetermined outcome.
A lesson is an event — an experience that continues beyond its formal end.
How can these processes be applied in directing?
This introduction to quantum pedagogy will not offer ready-made tools. With this first ‘quantum step’, Jurij Alschitz will take the liberty of provoking your system in order to bring about a change in your mindset, to provoke changes in perception – for the role of the teacher and the nature of learning itself.
DAY 2 — QUANTUM TRAINING
On the second day theory becomes direct experience.
- Traditional training and quantum training.
We compare two approaches to training not by the form of exercises, but by the logic of participation:
the presence of the teacher, shared responsibility for the process, and attention to the working field.
Quantum training is impossible if the teacher is not personally engaged in a state of training. - Training the teacher. Training the director.
Where does the quantum process begin?
Special attention is given to what is usually invisible.
The leader in quantum training is neither an external observer nor a controller of results.
This is training of presence, of uncertainty, and of responsibility. - What is an exercise?
An exercise functions only when both teacher/director and actor are inside the process — not above it. - The student in quantum training. The Actor in Superposition.
The actor does not search for a single correct solution and does not fix a final form.
Instead, actors learn to:
– hold multiple possibilities,
– remain in continuous choice,
– be simultaneously in presence and absence. - Training as a living process.
Quantum training is a process in which all participants undergo a profound transformation.
During this day, participants:
– work with examples of quantum exercises,
– Observe how the field of work changes when the leading position shifts,
– explore the teacher’s / director’s responsibility for the process itself.
Course dates and Registration
Saturday 18 April
Sunday 19 April 2026
always at 15:00 – 17:30 UTC+2 | Berlin time
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Quantum Training (18+19 April 2026)
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