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)
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Hello!
This autumn Culture Current begins its thirteenth season of (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner. What a prime number!
A warm welcome back to our regular practitioners! Those of you haven’t been with us for a while, do come join us again!
In addition to the three courses below, in the next two seasons, we’re planning a special guest IwIP teacher visit from the Czech Republic, a beginning course next spring for those of you who are itching to give (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner a try for the first time, and a couple of special surprises. Stay tuned…
Looking forward to seeing you on stage soon!
- Alex
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Alexander Komlosi
Chairman, Culture Current
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Autumn 2025
Courses and Workshops Currently Accepting Applications
1. (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner for Continuing Practitioners
- Weekly IwIP practice sessions for continuing IwIP practitioners. Teachers: Alexander Komlosi (lead teacher), Ingrid André, Riina Huhtanen, Vesa Kantola, Esko Nuutila, Hanna Raiskinmäki, Jenni-Elina von Bagh.
- Once a week on Wednesday evenings. September 17th — December 10th, 2025.
- You are welcome to apply if you have participated in at least an introductory IwIP course (minimum 8 sessions).
- Sign up deadline September 7th, 2025.
2. (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner Saturdays
- IwIP sessions for continuing practitioners led by Hanna Raiskinmäki.
- Twice a month on Saturday mornings. September 20th— December 20th, 2025.
- You are welcome to apply if you have participated in at least an introductory IwIP course (minimum 8 sessions).
- Sign up deadline September 14th, 2025.
3. (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner Workshop
- Weekly IwIP practice sessions in a co-led workshop format for continuing IwIP practitioners. Some sessions will be led by Alexander Komlosi, some co-led by the group.
- Once a week on Monday evenings. September 15th — December 8th, 2025.
- You are welcome to apply if you’ve participated in the IwIP Workshop before (Monday sessions).
- Sign up deadline September 7th, 2025.
You may attend all courses you are eligible for.
Please note that each course is exclusive to the students who have registered for that course. “Hopping” back and forth between courses is not permitted. ☺
Sign up is first come, first serve!
Please scroll down for more info and links to sign up…
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1. Inter)acting with the Inner Partner for Continuing Practitioners
What?
Weekly IwIP practice sessions.
Aimed for: Anyone interested in IwIP.
Eligibility: You have participated in an introductory IwIP course (minimum 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 IwIP practice and improvisational skills
- Fun
Teachers: Lead teacher: Alexander Komlosi. Alex will lead or co-lead at least half the sessions. Other teachers (based on availability): Ingrid André, Riina Huhtanen, Vesa Kantola, Esko Nuutila, Hanna Raiskinmäki, Jenni-Elina von Bagh. Most sessions will be led by a pair of teachers. See bios at end of page.
Language: We will teach in English and Finnish as needed. You are welcome to use any language while you practice.
Timetable
Wednesdays, 17.30-20.
September 17th —December 10, 2025. Weeks 38-50.
Total 13 x 2,5h sessions (total 32.5h)
Group size: Min 5, Max 11
Location
SFV-huset G18, Georgsgatan 18, Helsinki and another location in the center (to be announced).
Course Fee
Regular rates
Culture Current supporting members: 330€
Non-members: 340€
Discounted rates
In order to qualify for the discounted rate you need to be either unemployed (a registered job-seeker at TE-Toimisto) or a full-time student. Please be prepared to provide proof if requested.
Culture Current supporting members: 270€
Non-members: 280€
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 by 22.9.2025. 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. Most of our regular students are supporting members. More info and apply for membership by clicking here.
Sign-up Deadline: 7.9.2025
Sign up is first come, first serve! Please sign up as soon as possible. The sooner we have a confirmed group, the sooner we can all rest easy 🙂 Preference will be given to folks who have been practicing IwIP in the past two years.
The course will be confirmed by 10.9.2025.
Sign-up at THIS LINK.
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2. (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner Saturdays
What? IwIP practice sessions twice a month.
Aimed for: People interested in developing their IwIP practice.
Eligibility: You have participated in an introductory IwIP course (minimum 8 sessions).
Goals:
- Expand and diversify your IwIP practice
- Develop your ability to give supportively critical and encouraging reflections on others IwIP practice.
- Dramatic play
- Develop your performing self and performative fitness
- Explore performative being
- Cultivate personal and group well-being
- Develop IwIP practice and improvisational skills
- Fun
Teacher: Hanna Raiskinmäki. See bio at end of page.
Language: Hanna will teach in Finnish and English as needed. You are welcome to use any language while you perform and practice.
Timetable
Saturdays from 10AM-12PM.
Every two to three weeks on Saturday mornings. September 20th— December 20th, 2025.
20.9, 4.10, 18.10, 8.11, 22.11, 29.11, 13.12, 20.12.
(Weeks 38, 40, 42, 45, 47, 48, 50, 51.)
Total 8 x 2h sessions (total 16h).
Group size: Min 5, Max 11.
Location
SFV-huset G18, Georgsgatan 18, Helsinki and another location in the center (to be announced).
Course Fees
Regular rates
Culture Current supporting members: 180€
Non-members: 190€
Discounted rates
In order to qualify for the discounted rate, you need to be able to provide proof of being unemployed (a registered job-seeker at TE-Toimisto) or a full-time student. Please pay the regular rate if you can afford it 🙂
Culture Current supporting members: 130€
Non-members: 140€
No refunds or credit once the payment has been made.
Payment will be due by 22.9.2025. Culture Current ry will bill you when the course is confirmed. If you would like to request paying in installments, please note that when you sign up.
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. Most of our regular students are supporting members. More info and apply for membership by clicking here.
Sign-up Deadline: 14.9.2025
Sign up is first come, first serve! Please sign up as soon as possible. The sooner we have a confirmed group, the sooner we can all rest easy 🙂 Preference will be given to folks who have been practicing IwIP in the past two years.
The course will be confirmed by 15.9.2025.
Sign-up at THIS LINK.
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3. (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner Workshop
What? Weekly IwIP practice sessions in a co-led workshop format for continuing IwIP practitioners. About half the sessions will be led by Alexander Komlosi, the other co-led by the group. We will also have warm-ups, group discussions and exercises relating to performative well-being and performative being. If the group agrees, we will have a public open session.
Eligibility: You have participated in the IwIP Workshop before (Monday sessions).
Please Note: As a member of this workshop, you agree to participate in the co-led sessions where we all give and receive feedback from one another. The group has been working in this manner for the past two years.
Aimed for: IwIP Workshop members who would like to continue to develop their IwIP practice, give and receive feedback on IwIP practice from other members of the group and in this way develop pedagogical IwIP skills, and experiment with IwIP.
Goals:
- Expand and diversify your IwIP practice
- Develop your ability to give supportively critical and encouraging reflections on others IwIP practice.
- Dramatic play
- Develop your performing self and performative fitness
- Explore performative being
- Cultivate personal and group well-being
- Develop IwIP practice and improvisational skills
- Fun
Main Teacher: Alexander Komlosi for about half the sessions. Otherwise co-led by all group members based on collectively agreed principles and practices. See bio at end of page.
Language: Alex will teach in English, but you are welcome to use any language while you perform and practice. We alternate between Finnish and English as needed when giving feedback as a group.
Timetable
Mondays once a week, 17.30-20.
September 15th —December 8th, 2025. Weeks 38-50.
Total 13 x 2,5h sessions (total 35h)
Group size: Min 5, Max 10.
Location
SFV-huset G18, Georgsgatan 18, Helsinki and another location in the center (to be announced).
Workshop Fees
Culture Current supporting members: 200€
Non-members: 210€
The workshop fee has already been reduced because half the sessions will be co-led by group members. There are no other discounts for this course.
No refunds or credit once the payment has been made.
Payment will be due by 22.9.2025. Culture Current ry will bill you when the course is confirmed. If you would like to request paying in installments, please note that when you sign up.
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. Most of our regular students are supporting members. More info and apply for membership by clicking here.
Sign-up Deadline: 7.9.2025
Sign up is first come, first serve! Please sign up as soon as possible. The sooner we have a confirmed group, the sooner we can all rest easy 🙂 Preference will be given to folks who have been practicing IwIP in the past two years.
The course will be confirmed by 10.9.2025.
Sign-up at THIS LINK.
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Teachers’ Bios (alphabetical order)
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.
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, weekly for the last 7 years.
Vesa Kantola has film background in directing, producing and script writing long documentaries. He has been teaching at the Helsinki institute of technology as a senior lecturer of visual communication over 25 years. He teaches two courses at Aalto University. He has scientific publications about interactive theatre and gaming in design. He has practiced (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner (IwIP) since 2014 with Alex and co-taught an IwIP course with him at Aalto University.
Alexander Komlosi studied (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner under Professor Vyskočil, the founder of the discipline, at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague for 15 years, and trained under him as an IwIP teacher. He has been teaching IwIP internationally and developing its pedagogy since 1999 through workshops and courses at 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, 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 educational program. He has trained and taught the other IwIP teachers in Finland, encouraging them to take IwIP in their own directions. As an actor, he has performed internationally. His most current performance work is part of Anna Estarriola’s exhibit, 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 over 18 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. Her latest performance experiments have been in Institute Trilogy, convened by Joanna Haartti, in Teatteri Takomo and Extramaterial in Viirus Theater with Jenni-Elina von Bagh. She has led and co-led many IwIP courses.
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 is Artistic Director of Zodiak – Center for New Dance.
Photo credit: Diego Ginartes, © 2022 Kulttuuriyhdistys Culture Current ry