NEXT COURSES
July 06 - 10  - full July 20 - 24 September 07 - 11 September 21 - 25	Monday  through Thursday 10am - 5pm Friday 9.30 am - 6pm 32 hour course

 

courses with participation the most of our major teaching staff, theatre & film

 

THE OBJECTIVE

of our Introductory Course is to introduce students to the principles and practices of the most important European, American and Russian figures in advanced actor training from Stanislavski until today. The drive of our training is based on your Creative self.

 

 

TALENT

is either there or not, it cannot be taught. Yet in order to act truthfully, it must be Freed. In these sessions we forge with you the first tools of such freedom, the basics you need to feel physically confident before starting structured scene work in our Studio 1 courses.

 

THE WORK  in our Introductory Courses is based on the fundamental principles of Acting International’s method: 

 

   Active analysis – on your feet – of each scene’s chain of events

   Active listening / working-off your partner

   Seizing the vortex of relationships

   Not acting or trying to control emotions

   Stanislavski’s logical path of action to the part

   Verbal and non verbal communicating

   And never forgetting that you need action

 

AT THE END OF THESE COURSES, you will act out 1 or 2 short scenes in English or French.

 

 

Recognizing that dramatic art takes as its material the whole of what you are  in interaction with the world’s nature and culture, we will open you to a new, daring surprising use of yourself -- sensing, thinking, imagining, recalling, feeling, acting/reacting – in space. It will set you on the way to relish real and creative acting.

 

These 32 hour, year- round short- term courses are held twice a week during the fall, winter and spring seasons of each year with all the schools’ teachers in turn. The summer sessions are intensive held over six full days at highly competitive and affordable rates.

 

These courses are open to people of all ages and backgrounds. For beginners it is an introduction to the excitement and demands of acting. For others it is a chance to discover the best of American & European methods of work and/or improve your English or French.

 

 

“Again what is this action? The commitment to achieving a single goal. You don’t have to become more interesting, more sensitive, more talented, more observant – to act better :you do have to become more active. Choose a good objective which is fun, and it will be easy. Choose something that you want to do. The impulse to play; to imagine, got you interested in the theatre in the first place.”

David MAMET 

 

 

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