For Actors, Artists, Directors, and Creators

AUTONICA
SYSTEM COURSE

A Path Toward a Conscious Creative Process in Theatre and Film

Today, acting classes in Moscow are sought not only by actors and creators who want to maintain and develop their professional skills, but also by people who wish to understand themselves more deeply and learn to act and exist in reality — rather than simply play a role. That is why acting courses are increasingly becoming not only a form of training, but also a space for discovering inner freedom.

The Autonica System Course is an intensive practice aimed at exploring the nature of action, deed, attention, and authentic stage and cinematic existence.

Over the course of four months, participants work with impulses, reactions, perception, partner interaction, different types of creative thinking, and processes that arise on the border between the conscious and the unconscious.

The classes are based on the methods of the Autonica system, which allow participants to gain a deeper understanding of the mechanisms through which stage and cinematic existence emerge, as well as the inner process of the creator.

The course is structured as a sequential process. Through exercises, lectures, home assignments, and research practices, participants move toward an awareness of the ways of existing on stage and on screen.

The course concludes with a training presentation of the completed Autonica stage and the awarding of a certificate of completion.

This course is not only about the profession — it is also about a deeper understanding of the nature of creativity.

  • Duration: 4 months of intensive practice + 1 additional month.
  • Classes: 40 sessions throughout the course.
  • Option to participate selectively by month.
  • More than 90 academic hours.
  • Twice a week: one evening class on a weekday and one morning class on the weekend.
  • Class duration: 2–3 hours.
  • Location: central Moscow.
  • Course Finale: a training presentation at the end of the course.
  • Outcome: acquired skills and a certificate of completion.
  • Number of Places: a small working group.
  • Course Fee: listed at the bottom of the page.

Stages of Work

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The Foundation of the Course

THE AUTONICA SYSTEM

It is an original system for the study of creativity and human existence.

It regards theatre and cinema not as representation, but as spaces for understanding the human being, their inner experience, and their capacity for action.

The system was created by Roman Akimov as the result of nine years of research and is now represented by three books: The Union of Opposites, I Am Nobody — I Am Everything, and Seven Thunders.

At the center of Autonica is not the artistic result, but the living process of human becoming, in which creativity becomes a form of life.

A Conversation with Dima Dmitriev about the Autonica System

Roman Akimov

Artistic Director of Theatre OM
Author and Leader of the Course
Theatre director, teacher, and international researcherORCID: 0009-0006-2957-689X

Founder of the independent professional Theatre OM and creator of the Autonica system. Roman Akimov graduated from the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts — GITIS.

His professional practice brings together theatre directing, teaching, and many years of research in the fields of the philosophy of creativity, anthropology, phenomenology, and depth psychology.

Autonica became the result of a nine-year path of research and practice, culminating in the publication of the first books of the system in 2026 and opening the public stage of its development.

Roman Akimov carries out international research and educational work. His projects and initiatives in the fields of theatre and artistic education have received awards, acknowledgements, and support from cultural organizations.

His work is aimed at restoring the existential dimension of theatre — a space where art becomes a form of investigating the human being and their inner experience.
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