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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
Any Level - Online
10 Sunday mornings
Begins June 18th
The revolutionary approach to developing a character’s emotional life employing the power of the actor’s imagination to create vibrant, lasting images and feelings. You actually experience the character’s experiences. Never lie again! Creates powerful, compelling performances.
Int./Adv. – Santa Barbara
6 Sunday Mornings (PST)
Begins June 18
Emphasis on the connection between sound and meaning in Shakespeare. After a sensitizing process, students "sound" the text, putting on Shakespeare's "vocal mask" in order to discover and connect the palpable emotional life. Linklater based. Exercises, monologues, scenes.
Int./Advanced – Santa Barbara
6 Sunday Nights at 6:30 pm PST
Begins June 18th
Your comic choices must be based in a clear reality—maybe an offbeat, distorted and absurd reality, but a believable one nonetheless. It’s all about belief in high stakes involving desperation and the unpredictable. Truthful commitment to comedic needs and circumstances is funny!
Advanced/Pro - Los Angeles
6 Monday nights
Begins June 19th
Acting on impulse in the now. Being compelled to respond from pure awareness, from intense looking and listening. Acting from necessity in the moment. Behavior that happens, not behavior that is planned - alive, dynamic, electric performance.
All Levels – Santa Barbara
10 Thursdays at 12 pm PST
Begins June 15th
The revolutionary approach to developing a character’s emotional life employing the power of the actor’s imagination to create vibrant, lasting images and feelings. You actually experience the character’s experiences. Never lie again! Creates powerful, compelling performances.
"You are a shining example of everything a teacher should be; inspired and inspiring, positive, challenging, interested, supportive, unbelievably skilled, intelligent and talented at what you are teaching us, and maybe the most important thing, you seem to love it! We are all so fortunate to have you turn your light on us, sweep us up into your beam, and inspire and help us in all the ways that you do. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!”Elizabeth Cross, Actress