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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
Through an objective process, students discover three or four character types derived from their "look" and personal qualities. Then working on targeted material, actors learn to fulfill each character in order to present themselves as a complete, castable, acting package.
Emphasis is on the actor rather than performer improvisation. Organic behavior and emotional truth are valued over cleverness. Teaches physical and vocal risk-taking, impulse work and a personal sense of truth. Numerous improv formats are motivated by both internal and external circumstances.
The classic "outside-in" discipline employing a unique collection of celastic masks in the French tradition. Precise character development from the mirror leads to full-blown characters. Behind the "safety" of the mask, actors learn to work boldly and break through habitual limitations.
Designed to promote lively, truthful, "dangerous,” moment-to-moment work. Emphasis on risk-taking, impulses, awareness, bold choices and follow-through. Eliminates actor tension, stale performance habits, personal cliches and artificial behavior.
Intermediate/Advanced – SB
8+8 Thursdays, 12:00 PM (Pacific)
Begins January 25
Actors will experiment with the body and voice of multiple characters, making vocal and physical and speech “adjustments” for those characters and assessing the outcome. The organic connection between physical and emotional life is emphasized throughout.
Learning what do just before an entrance – how to make strong choices and internalize them right before a character enters. Based on the actor’s choices of intention and obstacle, the right emotional preparation carries the actor through the scene without any need for pushing or falsification.
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.
"Thank you for the privilege of being in the room with the benefit of your wealth of knowledge, experience, discernment and creativity. I have been hungry for a good teacher for decades and having found one I can respect and learn from every time I'm in the room, I feel truly blessed. Thanks for allowing me to occupy space in the room in which you are charging the ions!!!”Laura Birrell, Actress