Body and Creative Flow

Slava Kushkov Movement scientist, choreographer and movement director. His work has been shown in Germany, Italy, Austria, Russia, Switzerland, Serbia and China.

Slava Kushkov studied at the Humboldt University in Berlin (DE) and at the State Linguistic University in Pyatigorsk (RU) and already applied sports medicine approaches to artistic practice during his studies. He is currently researching attention and awareness in movement concepts and their teaching at acting schools. As a movement artist, he leads courses for performing artists worldwide and teaches at the HfMT in Hamburg and as a guest lecturer at the University of Arts in Berlin, Schauspielschule Freiburg, Hochschule für Schauspielkunst “Ernst Busch”, Akademie der Künste in Ludwigsburg, etc. He has further training and experience in body-work methods such as the Talmi-Method®, Suzuki-Training and other functional breathing, body and movement approaches and techniques, including meditation through "no-spine" knife throwing. He has been an inspired martial artist for 30 years and successfully integrates these approaches into scenic work and physical camera acting. He is a co-founder of the Martial Arts Convention Berlin and a member of the KULA Compagnie. Since 2021 he has been artistic director of the company “ART//2020 - darstellende Kunstsicherung” and the Bregenzerwald Festspiele.

Nora Schüssler, Director, author, movement scientist. Her work has been shown in Germany, the USA, Greece and Great Britain.

As a movement lecturer, she runs courses for actresses, artists and musicians in Munich, but also works with theatres to support productions with functional structural bodywork, such as 2023 at the Landestheater Memmingen. She studied directing at the HFS Ernst Busch and ethics of textual cultures at the University of Augsburg and wrote her doctoral thesis on theatre aesthetics of the 21st century. She has worked as a director and dramaturge mainly in southern Germany, collaborating with Wiebke Puls at the Kammerspiele München and writing and directing for Mathilde, the smallest theatre in the city of Munich. In 2022/23, she was the artistic director and body lecturer for a collaboration between students from the UDK Berlin, the August Everding Theatre Academy and the AdK Ludwigsburg.