IRA SEIDENSTEIN       ACTOR / CLOWN  -  DIRECTOR / TEACHER  -  HEALING / CREATIVITY

Photo: PARIS 2008 - after show Un Filet D'Amour

Ira Seidenstein's work has been active combining two feilds - Creativity and Healing for over thirty-years.  He holds an M.A. in Visual & Arts; Ph.D. Candidate in Education; Gradute of Berkeley Psychic Institute; Trained at Dell' arte School; Trained as an Iyengar yoga teacher with the founder of the Australian School of Yoga.

Ira worked in over 100 productions. He uses a practical body-mind-spirit approach to acting Quantum Theatre. Quantum has clear grounding in anatomically correct physical training based on yoga, acrobatics, Core Body Mechanics of Quantum Theatre. Since 2002 Ira has trained with Frank Theatre in Frank/Suzuki Performance Aesthetics and Suzuki Actor Training Method and integrates this with Quantum Theatre.

After more than 20-years of original research Ira created: Quantum Theatre: Slapstick to Shakespeare (est 1993), and ISAAC - International School for Acting AND Clown (est 2005), and Director of FrankenKlowns.

Ira's M.A. thesis was "The Actor's Body in the Space of the Theatre" and the Ph.D. thesis is "What is Nature of Embodied Practices, Creativity, Integral Learning in Performer Training?" Each thesis was based on Quantum Theatre, and, the Ph.D. uses the social theory of Peirre Bourdieu.

Ira is a former teacher at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Australia; and Resident Teacher & Choreographer for Australia's national Bell Shakespeare Company, and was Artistic Director for Sweden's national circus high school. Ira is mentor to numerous independent artists.