The Directors Studio Announces Upcoming Classes
Every major profession requires its practitioners to maintain their training. The law, public accounting, education and medicine are four fields in which professionals earn continuing education credits to maintain a license to practice. Should skilled, career actors approach their work with any less discipline? We think not.
The team at The Directors Studios has brought together several of the finest voice, movement, and acting instructors to reenergize the working actor. Whether you're in a show or auditioning for one, you will maintain and strengthen your skills as a performing artist.Voice & Speech with Lucinda Holshue6 Mondays, Feb 22 - Mar 29, 5:00 - 6:30 PM
$120
This is a class for working actors who want to continue to develop their instrument. The work will center around deepening breath support & capacity & finding a specific warm-up for your voice, incorporating exercises that develop clarity, musicality, resonance, & imagination. Specific concerns/questions of each artist will be addressed . Voice & speech exercises which can be directly applied to acting texts will be explored.
Acting the Song with Michael Pearce Donley
6 Saturdays Feb 27 - Apr 3, 3:00 - 5:00 PM
$160
It's about communication. In musical theater, musical excellence and strong acting work together to delight, startle, challenge, or break the heart of an audience. In this highly interactive and practical class, students will be able to better communicate the full breadth of their songs, utilizing subtext, gesture, facial movement and eyes, while also strengthening their musical understanding and skill.
6 Saturdays Feb 27 - Apr 3, 3:00 - 6:00 PM
$235
This class will explore the basics of European clowning, being honest and vulnerable without relying on gags, gimmicks or tricks. Exercises are designed to release your inner-clown and allow that which is innately ridiculous about yourself to shine. We will explore comic timing, the art of being playful, and physical comedy.
Active Analysis & Psychological Gesture with Tom Cornford
Mar 23 - 26 12:00 - 4:00 PM, Mar 27 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
$260
With one of England's most exciting new drama teachers, participants will explore the creation of a character around the notion of IDENTITY. Michael Chekhov's Psychological Gesture and Stanislavski's Active Analysis will be used to explore material related to the theme of character and identity. The workshop will give participants first-hand experience of working psycho-physically on the creation of character and of improvising and devising.
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