What is “Kinetic Mind” ?

“Kinetic Mind” is Polina Klimovitskaya’s methodology, the foundation of approaching acting and the creative process. The training itself is physical and somatic explorations and exercises that involve body and spacial awareness, movement, music, voice, stillness, and allowing the barrier-free connection between our inner and outer space.

Through practice and discovery, we find that when higher consciousness absorbs the biological mind, we get a happy marriage.

Number one, we become aware of our fingers, our elbows, our feet, and so on (and we don’t take them for granted). Then, when we start to see the independent unique life of each part of the body – each toe, the pinky finger, thumb – we honor them and we allow them to actually speak for us. We develop that kind of listening and responding.

As we establish this continual listening, the body starts to trust that we respect it, that we hear it, and the body responds to our suggestions. From there comes the beginning of transformation into the character – it’s a suggestion. You cannot show Hamlet; you suggest something simple, a different idea, to the very nature of your being.

What we discover, as we create this beautiful dialogue, is a connection between the conductor, the mind, and the orchestra, every bodily cell, each a different instrument in the our trillion-musician orchestra. We become aware of our long-established mechanical habits, and we live with a different mind.

Transformation in acting and art is about switching into different mode of functioning; tt’s not about showing or signifying. Your body, your whole being (body is a being) responds to the suggestion and starts to play with it. The game we play is the game our cells play and dance to differently. You live and dance with it instead of controlling it. You dance with it, flirt with it, and allow it to take you over; it’s a wave that you ride and you let it take you where it will. To do so is the challenge for actors, for creative people.

This training develops an overall awareness that many would point out as presence and craft. It helps each individual develop a unique aesthetic awareness necessary for art – grace, a sense of all-encompassing space, shapes of dramatic expressiveness, and the ability to experience oneself without judgment. Above all, it develops in the actor or artist a full person who can embody and emanate that which is beyond words.