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Acting

Minimum Age: 8 years AND Above Pre-requisite: No prior experience in Acting is required

During this course students will develop skills in all aspects of acting like voice, movement, text, improvisation, and performance.

COURSE TOPICS, CONTENT

The Voice: Actor uses breathing support and vocal techniques.
Content: Warm-ups, Breath Control, Voice Types

Having a strong and healthy voice is essential as an actor. Your voice is one of your strongest assets and it is trainable. By proper training one can improve your range, dynamic, volume, lung capacity, articulation and resonance.

  • Alignment/body work is very important for voice. If your body is aligned and grounded it means that the sound can be released without impingement. When you are aligned you forced to let go of any personal habits and tensions which in turn helps free your voice.
  • Stretching is great to free up the muscles and let go of tensions. Yoga is fantastic.
  • Spinal Rolls: standing up roll down through the spine a vertebrae at a time, then roll back up again. Hum as you rise.
  • Roll shoulders
  • Massage your jaw to release any tensions.
  • Breath Support
  • Resonance and freeing the voice
  • Articulation

Character: a character outside of yourself, find truth as an actor and character
Content: Character Building

Character games are a handy tool for creating, developing and experimenting with characters. They can be a useful starting point for your own creations or a means of exploring a particular type of character.

Movement & Physical Theatre: Utilizing of physical tools and engaged by actor or actress. Learn how to tell stories with and without using words?
Content: Mime & Pantomime

Encourage response to stimuli with honesty, spontaneity, and creativity. Focus on sustained and relaxed awareness, resulting in more dynamic play and interactions.

Improvisation & Storytelling: An actor should tell or communicate a story through imagination, objective, and sequence
Content: Listening and Awareness, Story Building, Fairy Tales

The Text & Performance: Given a circumstance and events students will be taught how to combine all elements to express truth and believability on stage.
Content: Given Circumstances, Events, Interpretation and Dynamics, Scripting & Scripted Scenes, Rehearsing, Audience and Fourth Wall.