The basis of (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner is the experience and experiencing of action (speaking, playing) with yourself (with your inner partner or partners), as a rule, on your own. After some self-reflection, each one of you should be able to recall the experience of talking to yourself or playing on your own with your self. (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner is about studying and learning how to engage in similarly authentic, spontaneous, playful and co-playful action (behavior and experiencing); generating this behavior in public in the presence and attention of “spectators” in a situation of “public solitude” (Stanislavsky), where we do not contact the onlookers in any way (visually or physically), “as if” they weren’t present.
-Ivan Vyskočil, creator of the discipline
Autumn 2026
Courses and Workshops
A warm welcome back to our regular practitioners and to those of you who haven’t been with us for a while. To those of you who would like to join us for the first time...Tervetuloa! Välkommen! Bienvenue!
Culture Current is offering two workshops this season.
If you’d like to develop your (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner practice, join us for (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner for Continuing Practitioners for weekly practice on Thursday evenings. The sessions will be led by a varied group of experienced IwIPers.
We’re also offering an experimental (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner Workshop this season: Space, Object, Word in the Ocean of Suchness on Monday evenings, led by Alexander Komlosi. Anyone who’s attended the Monday workshop before is most welcome (space is limited).
You may attend all workshops you are eligible for. Please note that each workshop is exclusive to the students who have registered for it. No hopping between workshops. ☺ Sign up is first come, first serve!
Later this season, we'll be organizing an (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner Intensive with a guest teacher from the Czech Republic. Keep an eye on our socials and newsletter.
Next Spring, we’ll be offering a full introductory course for those of you who would like to give (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner a try. If you’re interested in attending a weekend taster this autumn, please be in touch and we’ll do our best to arrange it.
Looking forward to seeing you on stage soon! Now scroll down for info about this season's workshops.
1) Space, Object, Word in the Ocean of Suchness — An experimental (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner Workshop
The moon reflected
In a mind clear
As still water
Even the waves breaking
Are reflecting its light.1
In this workshop, we will explore (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner from two perspectives: philosophical-existential and performative. We will practice “standard” IwIP and experiment with various interventions through three frames: space, object, word and explore the possibilities of IwIPing in the ocean of 'suchness' (non-dualistic reality as it truly is without any conceptual overlay).2 This approach is inspired by the workshop leader’s experience with Zazen, writing prose fiction, and decades of experience performing questions through and inspired by IwIP practice.
We will begin with the following questions:
- In a performative interaction like (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner, is there a way to be and act through what is without holding on or pushing away, without any conceptual overlay, beyond judgement and dualism? As we give to this journey and to one another (including our inner partners), what do others and this journey give us?
- How might interventions in standard IwIP practice through space, object and word expand our psychosomatic imagination and action possibilities in a performance situation and develop ourselves as authorial performers? How might we apply insights gained from this process to our artistic and creative work and play? Do these experiments aid us in posing and responding to our philosophical-existential questions?
- How can we do this difficult and challenging work through joy?
Workshop leader: Alexander Komlosi
Eligibility: You have participated in the IwIP Workshop or Monday sessions before. Preference will be given to those who have participated in the Monday group the last two years.
Workshop languages: We will alternate between Finnish and English as needed.
Timetable
:
Mondays once a week, 17.30-20.
September 7th — December 7th, 2026. Weeks 37-50. No session October 12th (week 42). Total 13 x 2,5h sessions (total 32.5h)
Group size: Min 5, Max 9.
Location:
Helsinki (venue to be announced).
Workshop Fees
:
Regular rates
Culture Current supporting members: 330€
Non-members: 340€
Discounted rates
Culture Current supporting members: 240€
Non-members: 250€
In order to qualify for the discounted rate, you need to be able to provide proof of being unemployed (a registered job-seeker), a pensioner, or a full-time student. Please pay the regular rate if you can afford it 🙂
No refunds or credit once the payment has been made. No credit or refund for any sessions you miss. If any sessions are cancelled by CC, you will receive a credit or refund for those sessions.
Payment will be due latest by 8.9.2026. Culture Current ry will bill you. If you would like to request paying in installments, please ask before we bill you.
Become a Culture Current Member!
If you are not a Culture Current supporting member and would like to become one, membership starts at 25€/year. It entitles you to discounts on CC's courses and more. You can join by clicking here.
Sign-up Deadline: 31.8.2026
Sign up is first-come, first serve!
The course will be confirmed by 1.9.2026.
Sign-up at THIS LINK.
2) (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner for Continuing Practitioners
What? Weekly IwIP practice sessions. We can also do some experiments with IwIP!
Aimed for: Anyone who as participated in an introductory IwIP course and would like to develop their practice.
Eligibility: You have participated in an introductory IwIP course (about 8 sessions).
Goals:
- Expand and diversify your IwIP practice
- Dramatic play
- Develop your performing self and performative fitness
- Explore performative being
- Cultivate personal and group well-being
- Develop improvisational skills
- Fun
Workshop leader: Alexander Komlosi and other experienced IwIPers (to be announced).
Language: We will teach in English and Finnish as needed. You are welcome to use any language while you practice.
Timetable
:
Thursdays, 17.30-20.
September 10th to December 10th, 2026. Weeks 37-50. No session October 15th (week 42).
Total 13 x 2,5h sessions (total 32.5h)
Group size: Min 5, Max 11
Location:
Helsinki (venue to be announced).
Course Fees
:
Regular rates
Culture Current supporting members: 330€
Non-members: 340€
Discounted rates
Culture Current supporting members: 170€
Non-members: 160€
In order to qualify for the discounted rate, you need to be able to provide proof of being unemployed (a registered job-seeker), a pensioner, or a full-time student. Please pay the regular rate if you can afford it 🙂
No refunds or credit once the payment has been made. No credit or refund for any sessions you miss. If any sessions are cancelled by CC, you will receive a credit or refund for those sessions.
Payment will be due latest by 8.9.2026. Culture Current ry will bill you. If you would like to request paying in installments, please ask before we bill you.
Become a Culture Current Member!
If you are not a Culture Current supporting member and would like to become one, membership starts at 25€/year. It entitles you to discounts on CC's courses and more. You can join by clicking here.
Sign-up Deadline: 31.8.2026
Sign up is first-come, first serve!
The course will be confirmed by 1.9.2026.
Sign-up at THIS LINK.
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IwIP Teachers’ Bios (alphabetical order)
The individuals below have been studying IwIP for many years under the tutelage of Alexander Komlosi and other experienced IwIP practitioners. They have lead workshops in the discipline as part of Culture Current's activities, some also in university and other professional contexts. We continue to study and practice together and learn from one another.
Ingrid André works across dance, art and psychosomatic practices engaging a shift in perception. She is curious about remaining present to one’s interiority and expressing what lies beyond familiarity. She discovered IwIP in 2015 while working as one of the performers in a contemporary piece with Hanna Räiskimäki and gradually joined the practice. In IwIP, Ingrid finds an insightful mix of performance, well-being and artistic research while always being surprised by the dialogues within herself. Ingrid is engaged in artistic collaborations in France and Finland while working to bring performative and art practices to social organisations that promote mental health via creative practices.
Henna Hakkarainen is an actor and theater teacher from Helsinki. She mainly teaches poetry recitation and clowning. She has been practicing (Inter)ating with the the Inner Partner for about 10 years. She is interested in dialogical encounter as well as in human inner dialogue.
Riina Huhtanen is a dancer/choreographer and an osteopath. She is interested in somatic practices. In her art, she explores subtle body techniques and the shared space created by movement and kinesthetics between the viewer and the performer. She was introduced to (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner in 2007, and has been practicing it regularly ever since for the last 7 years.
Alexander Komlosi has been studying (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner since 1998, first under Professor Vyskočil, the founder of the discipline, at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague for 13 years. He trained under him as an IwIP teacher and wrote his doctoral dissertation on the intersections between IwIP and modern acting methods. He has been leading IwIP workshops and courses internationally and developing its pedagogy since 1999 at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, University of Arts Helsinki – Departments of Drama Pedagogy, Swedish-speaking Acting, Dance, and Open University; Tampere University – Näty, Aalto University, Faculty of Theatre and Dance at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Takomo Theatre, Valtimon Theatre, and the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki, Adult Education Center Helsinki, Columbia University, New York University/Tisch, Yale University, Rose Bruford College, and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and as part of Culture Current’s program. He has trained and taught the other IwIP teachers in Finland, encouraging them to take IwIP in their own directions in the arts and beyond. He has learned much studying IwIP with these friends and colleagues as well 🙂 He has worked internationally as an actor. His most recent performance work was part of Anna Estarriola’s exhbit, Stage Circumstances and Piles of Things, at Amos Rex. He recently completed an MA in Creative Writing Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia, UK. Now, he is focusing his creative energies on prose fiction.
Esko Nuutila had a long career as a university scientist and teacher, and now works in a startup as a software developer. He has been practicing IwIP intensively since 2015 under the supervision of Alexander Komlosi. Esko is interested in somatic fitness in its various forms. In addition to practicing IwIP, Esko teaches tai chi chuan and is a certified Feldenkrais practitioner.
Hanna Raiskinmäki is an actor and a Shiatsu practitioner. She has been practicing IwIP for 15 years, and leading classes for about 10 years. The most important teachers and colleagues in IwIP have been Alexander Komlosi and Milja Sarkola as well as the whole working group which has been meeting regularly for ten years. She has been experimenting IwIP with her theater and performing arts work. The latest experimentation has been and still is in actor Joanna Haartti’s convened Viiksi Instituutti in Teatteri Takomo.
Heidi Richert is a documentary filmmaker and an avid ice-swimmer, the practice of IwIP has been an important part of the last eight years.
Jenni-Elina von Bagh is a choreographer and dancer-performer based in Helsinki. She works in different collaborations in the field of contemporary performance and creates her own choreographic works, both nationally and internationally artistically travelling between dance, theatre, and arts. Her most recent works are “Void- A Psychodrama” (2021) and “A Prologue” (2020). She has been practicing IwIP for over 10 years, and has lead classes for a few years. She finds IwIP to be a source for personal well-being, but most importantly, a rich source for practicing creativity and personal / collective artistry. She recently served as Artistic Director of Zodiak – Center for New Dance.
Photo credit: Diego Ginartes, © 2022 Kulttuuriyhdistys Culture Current ry
- Zazen by Eihei Dogen. Translated from the Japanese by Steven Heine in The Zen Poetry of Dogen: Verses from the Mountain of Eternal Peace, 1997, Turtle, USA. ↩︎
- From The Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana: An Appreciation in The Journal of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives, Vol 35: 4, Winter 2020. ↩︎
