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Acting Class - How to achieve Internal Motivation
Wed, Mar 06, 2019 -
Internal Motivation
Wed, Aug 22, 2018 -
More 'Outside-In'
Wed, Aug 22, 2018
Adv. Beginner/Advanced - Online
11 Sundays at 10 AM (Pacific)
Begins October 1
A dynamic, consistent approach to preparation, rehearsals, scene work and character creation. Actors will own a dependable, specific process that will be used on all material in all media (including auditions).
Int/Advanced LA - Online
11 Sundays at 12:15 (Pacific)
Begins October 1
Students discover and learn to play three to five surprisingly diverse character types that perfectly match their "look" and presentation. Actors emerge with much greater self-knowledge and confidence in their auditions.
Int/Advanced - SB
11 Sunday Nights
Begins October 1
Acting on impulse in the now. Being compelled to respond from intense looking and listening in the moment. Behavior that happens, not behavior that is planned – translates to alive, dynamic, electric performance.
Adv. Int/Advanced - SB
8+8 Sundays, 12:15 PM (Pacific)
Begins January 21
Multi-Scene Study! Offers actors the rare opportunity to work on character progression and development, the “thru-line of need” throughout an entire play or screenplay. Develop your character’s emotional score throughout the script.
Intermediate/Advanced - SB
10 Thursdays at noon
Begins October 5
A thorough introduction for the actor new to camera work, plus a great deal of new material for camera veterans. This is a vital class for those wishing to do consistently dynamic and surprising work on camera
Int./Pro – Santa Barbara
12 Thursdays at Noon
Begins September 22
Owning Shakespeare featuring “Sounding” of the text, an emotional exercise and enables the actor to connect with Shakespeare’s characters in a visceral way, internalizing the needs and pains of his characters without sacrificing the elevated language or the impact of the work.
"Most acting classes offer scene study and critique, but it is much more unusual to run into someone who is willing and able to guide the actor through several scenes from a feature-length script, with cameras, in order to create the experience of developing a character in a real film. This difference has clearly made a difference — at least if the performances I observed at Maravilla are any indications. The talent on display was noticeable, but even more impressive was the discipline, as well as the strong sense of an entire cast and crew working as a team. Come to think of it, the best analogy would be to an actual film set, which is, I suppose, the point."Donelan