Risky Business: Courageous Choices (Fall)

Adv. Beginner/Advanced - Online

• 12 Wednesdays at 10 AM, begins October 1st
• Limit 8 actors

            Directors and teachers often ask unspecific actors to “make a choice!”  But most actors at every level don’t understand what choices are available to them and how to prepare and experiment with choices.  Enter “Risky Business: Courageous Choices.”

            This class features acting choices: selecting them, preparing them, fulfilling them, assessing them. The right and risky choice can get the job, deliver surprising and dynamic characters, guarantee that your work is consistently memorable, and offer audiences interpretations of originality and penetrating insight.

            So what kinds of choices are there?  How do you go about testing a choice?  Why do certain choices work and others not?  In Courageous Choices, actors discover the numerous choices at their disposal, exercise appropriate preparation in order to test the choice organically, and learn to evaluate the results with objectivity and artistic judgment.

            A few of the many categories of choices covered include: Intention, Motivation, Obstacle, Emotional Preparation, Physical, Vocal, Speech and Behavioral Adjustments, Transitions, Beats and Units, Text Circumstances, the Hidden Secret, Independent Activities, Text Decisions, Internalizing Props, Costumes, Set Pieces, and more. Students emerge with a mastery of techniques and an exciting rehearsal process.

$660 total (two or three installments available)

10% Early Bird, Multi-class and Couples Discounts are available

Early Bird discount for current and former student ends August 22nd

N.B. All courses progress in a logical and consecutive sequence. Furthermore, students are frequently turned away once the maximum number of participants has been reached. For these reasons, students who begin the session agree to complete the entire session and are, therefore, financially responsible for that session.

Write to [email protected] or call 805.451.6789 

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