THE ESSENTIALS IN TWELVE STEPS: MICHAEL CHEKHOV’S ACTING TECHNIQUE

 

 

Exploring how movements and their psychological impact on the actor’s body create authentic emotions. 

 

Please bring both a monologue and a scene to work on, soft-soled shoes and clothes suitable for movement. 

 

 

 

Experimenting with earth, air, fire and water in movement and engaging the actor’s imagination to embody a character using the four qualities of movement. 

 

Please bring both a monologue and a scene to work on, soft-soled shoes and clothes suitable for movement. 

 

 

 

Deepening movement and gesture by working with what Chekhov calls the feeling of ease, form, beauty and entirety, lifting individual creative work into the art of the actor. 

 

Please bring both a monologue and a scene to work on, soft-soled shoes and clothes suitable for movement. 

 

 

 

Continuing to investigate the relationship between gesture and its psychological impact to find gestures that authentically express a character’s objective. 

 

Please bring both a monologue and a scene you would like to work on, soft-soled shoes and clothes suitable for movement. 

 

 

 

 

Developing in the imagination the character’s physicality and then embodying it. 

 

Please bring both a monologue and a scene to work on, soft-soled shoes and clothes suitable for movement. 

 

 

 

Using the imagination to develop the character’s inner life and constitution by finding its form, colour and location in the body. 

 

Please bring both the monologue and the scene used in the Step 5 workshop, soft-soled shoes and clothes suitable for movement. 

 

 

 

Exploring the consonants and vowels connected with a character, including in his/her name, and bringing the same sound qualities into the character’s speech. 

 

Please bring both a monologue and a scene to work on, soft-soled shoes and clothes suitable for movement. 

 

 

 

With the help of archetypes, finding the character’s Psychological Gesture, developing it further with quality and colour and tempo. 

 

Please bring both a monologue and a scene to work on, soft-soled shoes and clothes suitable for movement. 

 

 

 

Discovering the main atmosphere of a play and a scene, layering it into the performance, exploring how it connects the individual characters and the actors with each other and the audience. 

 

Please bring both a monologue and a scene to work on, soft-soled shoes and clothes suitable for movement. 

 

 

 

A day on the principles of polarity and triplicity in both a play, scenes and monologues as well as the development of a character. 

 

Please bring both a monologue and a scene to work on, soft-soled shoes and clothes suitable for movement. 

 

 

 

Exploring words as physical gestures to give fresh life to any text, creating authenticity and discovering relationships. 

 

Please bring both a monologue and a scene to work on, soft-soled shoes and clothes suitable for movement. 

 

 

 

Drawing together the threads already explored in previous workshops on character and performance and creating an alive, inspired, imaginative and authentic performance. 

 

Please bring both a monologue and a scene, soft-soled shoes and clothes suitable for movement.