The Laz Process
An approach to performance in life where the instrument is the body.
developed by Laurance "Laz" Rudic
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There is a moment
before thought
before intention--
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Where the body is already
responding
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This work begins there.
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Playing self to know self
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It is not a technique, but a way of entering the moment fully--where action, response and expression arise from a state of embodied awareness.
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It is a practice of embodied presence grounded in sensory awareness for performers and life artists.
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This work is the culmination of decades of exploration in performance, shaped by the stage, refined in workshops and rooted in a lifelong insistence on presence.
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The Work
Sensing before feeling
The foundation of this work is sensory awareness. By attending to internal and external sensations, the performer discovers clarity before emotion or feeling take hold.
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Presence
Attention to space both internal and external allows action to emerge from the present moment, rather than from habit and anticipation.
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Relational Awareness
The work explored connection--with the environment, with others, and within oneself--dissolving the separation between actor and role.
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Safe Exploration
Participants are invited to encounter strong emotional states within a grounded and supported framework, without force of judgement.
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Embodied grounding
The body is not an instrument to be controlled, but a field of awareness through which experience unfolds.
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A Living Practice
This work cannot be separated from life.
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It requires a commitment to embodied awareness beyond the studio or stage--to come to one's senses again and again in the midst of daily life.
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This is often where resistance appears.
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It was through this practice, off stage, that the essence of the process revealed itself--not as an idea, but as a lived experience. Only then did it become fully available in performance.
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The Laz Process
The Laz Process is a practice in which performance reveals what is present when the sense of "I am doing this" falls away.
In this condition, fragmentation no longer structures perception. What becomes available is not something new but what is normally obscured by this fragmentation: a continuity of perception, action and response that is not divided by a central sense of self.
This is not a technique for achieving a state. It is a practice in which interference is reduced, allowing direct experience to become apparent in real time.
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Workshops
Workshops are open to actors, dancers, singers, writers, and artists interested in deepening presence through lived experience.
This is not coaching or technique based training.
It is a practice-based exploration of presence through the body, where attention, perception and action are explored in real time.
Improvisations that awaken spontaneous response
Guided explorations of space, sensation and movement
Integration of inner and outer awareness
Reflection grounded in direct awareness
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There is no pressure to perform.
The emphasis is on discovering what arises, rather than end-gaining and producing a result.
The work is intended for those with an existing artistic practice or a genuine curiosity about their own perceptual and creative processes.
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About Laurance "Laz" Rudic
Laurance "Laz" Rudic is a performance artist, actor and teacher presently based in Berlin. His work explores embodied presence and the role of the body as the primary instrument in performance and life.He started acting in theatre at the age of nine, and at the age of 16, played the leading role in a BBC film. During his training in acting school, he quickly found himself at odds with formal approaches to technique and structure, which he experienced as imposed and disconnecting. Rather than adopting these methods, he resisted them, sensing early that they led away from direct experience.A decisive shift came through his encounter with the performer and choreographer, Lindsay Kemp, whose work immediately resonated as a turning point. In Kemp's presence, Laurance encountered a form of living performance rooted in spontaneous physical improvisation, emotional immediacy, and a fully embodied stage presence.
The effect was immediate and unmistakeable--a sense of recognition that this was the direction he had been searching for, beyond the constraints of conventional training and its emphasis on structure and interpretation.From that point on, his development moved away from constructed methods toward sensory awareness, and presence as the basis for action. This shift deepened over twenty.five years of work with an innovative repertory theatre company based in Glasgow, and was further developed through over 20 years of creating workshops in Egypt.Developed through lived practice rather than theory, The Laz Process is an ongoing exploration of how perception and action arise from the body in the present moment.
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"The Laz Process" is the original work of Laurance Rudic
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