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Lars Schmidt Facilitator, Project Developer, Sustainability Educator, Artist
As founder of Art, Ecology & Education, The Pollinators and initiator/co-developer of Integral Ecoawarenss Training and Practice, Lars is a pioneer and visionary in the field of facilitating transformative processes and projects for integrated, sustainable living. He has explored the creative process in many different art forms. He studied acting, dance and singing, as well as photography, in Germany and the US, worked internationally as actor for film, television and theater, as acting coach, photographer, musician/singer/songwriter, filmmaker and poet.
Due to his love for nature and curiousity about personal processes he has been living and working on organic farms in France and Italy, is engaged in permaculture and living systems theory and has been working with Past Reality Integration Therapy (PRI) for several years.
Lars continues to be a researcher and learner, engaging in and including fields as versatile as body- and energywork, argentine tango, various forms of percussion and herbology. His work offers authentic access to knowledge and insight about an integrated way of perceiving, thinking, acting and relating – regarding life as a creative, self-organizing process and providing the opportunity to develop a lifestyle which is sustainable, meaning- and delightful.
CV 2008
| - Integral Ecoawareness Training and Practice develops
| since 2007
| - development of workshops and methods on the communication of integrated perceiving and thinking
- various international networking and exchange activities
- work as environmental/sustainability educator and artist
| | 2007 | - lauch of www.art-ecology-education.org
| 2007
| | 2006
| - creation of 'Art, Ecology & Education' concept
| | 2006 | - work as environmental educator and freelance artist (music, dance, photography)
| | 2006 | | 2006
| | | 2004 – 2006 | - stay and work on different organic farms in France and Italy
| | 1996 – 2005 | - studies and collaborations with Susan Batson (as assistant and as translator at international acting workshops)
| | 2001 - 2004 | - work as freelance director (film/theater), acting coach, actor and musician/singer/songwriter in Berlin
| | 2001 | | | since 2000 | - work as acting instructor at Black Nexxus Acting Studios, NYC and Deutsche Schauspielakademie, Berlin
| | since 1998 | - work as freelance filmmaker and musician/singer/songwriter and poet in Germany and the US
| | since 1998 | - work as actor (film, television, commercials, theater) in Germany and the US
| | 1997 – 1999 | - freelance photographer and assistances in New York City
| 1996
| - move from Hamburg to New York City, studying acting, dance and singing
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| | Education | 2008
| | since 2007
| - studies of bodywork/massage practices and dance (tango)
| since 2006
| - studies of Permaculture at the Academy for Permaculture, Germany
| since 2005
| | since 2000
| - engagement in afro-cuban music and percussion
| 1996 – 2001 | | | 1996 – 1998 | - studies of dance and singing in New York City
- dance: Dance Space, Broadway Dance Center and Alvin Ailey Dance Center
- singing: Nova Thomas
| | since 1996 | - different assistances for photographers in Hamburg and New York
| | 1994 – 1996 | - Stage School of Music, Dance and Drama, Hamburg
| | 1994 | - internship at photojournalist-agency Zone 5, Hamburg
| | 1992 | - graduation from highschool
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List of work| | Director / Director of Photography (Selection)
| | 2005 | - ‘Drinking Water’, short film
director: Lars Schmidt/Stefa Roth, photography: Lars Schmidt
| | 2002 | - ‘The Fox condemns the Trap, not Himself’, short film
director: Lars Schmidt, photography: Lars Schmidt
| 2002
| - ‘Der Tiger’, play by Murray Schisgal
director: Lars Schmidt, Brotfabrik Theater, Berlin
| | | | | | Acting Instructor | | 2005 | - collaboration with Susan Batson and Juliette Binoche, Paris
| | 2003 | - Black Nexxus Acting Studio, New York
- Deutsche Schauspiel Akademie, Berlin
- Workshop for Camera Acting, Berlin
| | since 1998 | - assistant of Susan Batson at international acting workshops
| | | | | | Actor (Selection) | | 2003 | - ‘Miracoli O'fino’, TV commercial
| | 2002 | - ‘From Heaven to Hell’, short film
director: Katja Brauer, Filmakademie Baden-Würtemberg, Germany
| | 2001 | - ‘Fünf-Tage-Woche’, short film
director: Nico Jäger, Filmakademie Baden-Würtemberg, Germany
| | 1999 | - ‘Vichy Mineral Water’, TV commercial
| | 1998 | - ‘Picknick im Schnee’, TV movie, Germany
director: Tomy Wigand, ndf Filmproduction
| | 1998 | - ‘Skyview Motel’, play by Filippo Anselmi
director: Marcia Haufrecht, Common Basis Theater, New York
| | | | | | Music and Lyrics | | 2003 | music and lyrics: Lars Schmidt
| | 2000 | music, lyrics and S-8 films: Lars Schmidt, CB’s Gallery, New York
| | | | | Photography | | | - independent works and series; commissioned work
| | | | | | Drawings |
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