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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
Summer Classes
The Working Actor’s Lab
Advanced Intermediate/Professional
Santa Barbara - 10 Sunday nights
June 16 – August 18
An advanced workshop, where individual programs are custom designed to help each actor acquire any skill or breakthrough any limitation to achieve maximum freedom and power. Through individually assigned exercises, scenes and monologues, actors focus on specific areas of need. Where do you need the most work?
The Working Actor’s Lab
Advanced/Professional
Santa Monica – 10 Monday nights
June 17 – August 19
Individual programs are custom designed to help each actor breakthrough any limitation to achieve maximum freedom and power. Prior to the first class, participants discuss and agree to their special focus for the term. Through individually assigned exercises, scenes and monologues, actors focus on specific areas of need.
Dirty Acting With Text
Advanced/Professional
Sherman Oaks - 10 Tuesday nights
June 18 – August 20
What is Dirty Acting? Acting on impulse in the now. Acting from necessity in the moment. Behavior that happens, not behavior that is planned - alive, dynamic, electric performance. This class is devoted to what it means to “act dirty” with text, to be as alive, surprised and surprising as any improviser.
The Transformational Actor
Advanced Beginner/Professional
Santa Barbara – 10 Thursday nights
June 13 – August 22
A working approach to the creation of dynamic, detailed characters. The Transformational Actor provides organic processes acquired through exercises, improvisations and text work. At the end of the session, actors own a dependable process towards characterization that can be used on all material in all media.
Testimonials
"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
The SB Independent