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Relaxation; contacting yourself; concentration; focusing awareness;
centering; moving and sounding; sense memory; contacting your
environment; shaping movement for the stage; contacting each other;
interrelating social and aesthetic realities.
(For more advanced students) Advanced sense memory; animal work;
emotional memory; gesture and communication; sensory and text;
bodily alignment and character; voice as an organic function;
breath support; speech as decision making.
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The actor as writing machine. This seminar combines elements of
screenwriting through improvisation, preparing a role and taking
action by using personal power.
We will use exercises to explore the depths and layers and challenge
ourselves and to spark our imagination to say things in a way
no one else can. We shall work with improvisation (plot point
+ generic improvisation) as a working method to create a text
that has an original quality.
Anton Chekov said: "If you want to work on your art, work
on your life."
In this workshop we are going to focus on both.
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SCRIPT
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I (The Actor’s Blueprint) Polarization exercises; analyzing
speech for diction; rhythm; melody; imagery; the organization
of action in plot; action and character; defining beats; scene
analysis; play analysis
II (The process of action) Defining character action, emotion
and character; characterization (the conscious and unconscious)
transformation (putting yourself into the character and the use
of your own experience); exploration in rehearsal; making choices;
honing the performance. In these workshops you will laugh, you
will cry, you will remember events in your life, dream incredible
dreams and begin to realize your true potential as an artist.
Participants should come with a script on which to work (ENTIRE
SCRIPT REQUIRED)
Scripts for stage are recommended (including classics) and screenplays
are accepted. Students should find a scene of 3-5 minutes or a
monologue of 1-3 minutes. Aside from a notebook and a pencil,
WEAR SOMETHING COMFORTABLE. When you get up to work on your 3-5
minute scene, you will spend over an hour on stage and sweat and
move and get the script in your body.
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Work
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Do
you need a text for a SCRIPT ANALYSIS seminar? |
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This
is a list of vastly different playwrights as a point of
departure for your reserch. These authors are translated
into Italian, English, Portuguese, French, etc.:
WEDEKIND, FRANK (1864-1918)
WASSERSTEIN, WENDY (1950 - ) "Talking With", "Uncommon
Women and Others"
SCHILLER, FRIEDRICH (1759 - 1805)
SHEPPARD, SAM (1943 - )
McNALLY, TERENCE (1939 - )
IONESCO, EUGENE (1909 - 1994) "Macbett", "The
Bald Soprano"
DeVEGA, LOPE (1562 - 1635)
CHEKOV, ANTON (1860-1904)
ALBEE, EDWARD (1924 - ) "Zoo Story," "Who's
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most frequently referred to by Margotta (no particular order): |
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Films
most frequently referred to by Margotta (no particular
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1.
Brecht: "The Good Woman (sometimes translated as "Good
Person") of Szechuan"
2. Brecht : "Mother Courage"
3. Shakespeare: "King Lear"
4. Beckett: "Waiting For Godot"
5. Beckett: "Endgame"
6. Shakespeare: "Hamlet"
7. Brecht: "The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui"
8. Ibsen: "Hedda Gabbler"
9. Tchekhov: "The Seagul",
10. Shaw: "Major Barabara"
11. Williams: "Rose Tattoo" |
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Kazan: "On the Waterfront"
2. Kubrick: "Paths of Glory"
3. Levinson: "Rain Man"
4. Zemeckis: "Death Becomes Her"
5. Zhang: "Raise the Red Lantern" (China)
6. Koller: "Journey of Hope" (Switzerland\Turkey)
7. Lean:"Lawrence of Arabia"
8. Antonioni: "L'Avventura" (Italy)
9. Fellini: "Prova D'Orchestra" (Orchestra Rehearsal),
(Italy)
10. Stevens: "Giant"
11. Malick : "Days of Heaven"
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Recommended
reading: Victor Frankl, "Man's Search For Meaning"
In italiano:
"Uno psicologo nel lager" ISBN: 88-7946-714-X EAN: 9788881550463 |
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