Creative Physicality for Young Actors
For many young actors, performing in a play means little more than learning the playwright’s lines and the director’s blocking – with songs and choreography for musicals. But an actor’s work is so much more.
This 8-week workshop introduces young performers to an approach to the actor’s craft that is rooted in presence of mind and body, providing a foundation of skills to stimulate confidence and creativity in rehearsal and enable the actor to be fully alive in performance.
Pomegranate & Ash | Sara Kaus & Trevor Young Marston | Photo: Joe Patrick Kane
Participants will learn essential, behavior-based skills for taking their work as actors to new levels:
- Physical training: Lay the foundation for a practice that not only tones the body and builds endurance but also develops kinesthetic intelligence, physical creativity, and presence.
- Imaginative action: Investigate the differences between gesture, activity, and action. Learn techniques for developing personal actions that unlock creative potential at the nexus of spontaneity and precision.
- Structural composition: Explore how rich, complex meanings can emerge when detailed, individual lines of action come together to create points of contact, relationships, and story.
For nearly 25 years, Akropolis Performance Lab’s artistic directors have been researching and defining means of performance creation that break barriers between performance genres to open up new avenues into the actor’s creative potential — tapping the wellspring of personal imagination and memory to uncover a unique and personal form of expression through body and voice.
Instructors: Joseph & Zhenya Lavy, APL Co-Artistic Directors, with support from the Company
Dates: Saturdays, Jul 11 – Aug 29, 2015 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Location: Sand Point location to be sent upon registration, Seattle (indoor and outdoor activity)
Tuition: FREE!
Eligibility: Young people who just completed grades 7-12
Attendance: Must be able to attend at least 5 of the 8 sessions; cannot miss July 11 or 18
Availability: 6 min, 16 max
