The Creative Actor 15th-28th July* 2012

This 'essential' training gives a comprehensive experience and understanding of the art of acting. A 'must do' workshop for anyone who wants to seriously deepen their knowledge of dramatic and comic art.

We will be working with carefully developed progressive exercises and techniques that release the creative power of the actor, including:

Re play of daily life - by observing the world, the actor has to convey authentic daily life situations and incident (without exaggeration or distortion). This work with space, timing and action is a vital building block for later performance and creation.

Neutral Mask (essential dramatic presence) this mask allows the actor to simplify and modify their own physical habits and idiosyncrasies through a series of special improvisational exercises. The actor learns to unlearn and uncovers the body´s full dramatic potential as a blank page, which later can take on different dramatic states and characters.

Children (play, energy, imagination, state and innocence) - the innate play instinct that we all share is the driving force of theatre. Through this liberating work the actor becomes released from inhibitions and self-consciousness. Freedom and spontaneity are accepted as our natural state. We then start to channel this ability into more sophisticated play and games (dramatic and comic creation).

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Mask Theatre (including mask making) - developing the expressive power of the performer through movement, stillness and the dramatic attitudes of the mask. By using masks in training the ability of the physical actor becomes greatly increased.

Theatre Creation and Performance - Identifying the motors in the dramatic or comic situation. Dynamics of a scene, rhythm and crescendo.

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