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SUMMER THEATER INTENSIVE & ACTING SCHOOL NYC |
SUMMER
THEATER INTENSIVE 2008
Acting classes & workshops-Actor
Training at it’s Best!
Acting Classes With Master
Teachers & Classes
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Actors and Directors |
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Summer
Faculty 2008
Andrew Wade RSC
"Shakespeare
to Oscar Wilde"
Coach SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE |
Quote Summer
2006 Student:
Thank you so much for the beautiful opportunity and
all the wonderful memories! I
recently finished "Anna in the Tropics" at FIU and I could never
have tackled the role of Ofelia (a 50 year old Cuban Woman) without
the skills I developed at your school! I hope we can work together again very
soon ! Also, many of my classmates are very interested in your Summer Intensive
after seeing the transformation the six of us had
last summer.
- Emily-Jayne Frail , Florida
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Introducing.....
"MOVEMENT MARATHONS"TM
"Where Williamson, Michael Chekhov and Viewpoints
Meet!"(C)
"Act from your feeling Imagination" John
Patrick Shanley |
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Monday
10-12am Wednesday 5:30-7:30pm
10 weeks $300 Feb 11 – April 19
Early Registration Discount $50 by Feb 9. |
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to Expand and Develop Kinesthetic Awareness, Experiential Sensation The
body in space and time, Creative Imagination, Emotional freedom, Physical
and Vocal ease, Ability to send, receive , and transform, freedom from Tension,
Expansive and Experiential Contact and Ensemble play. |
Movement
Marathon©
WILLIAMSON Physical Technique
VIEWPOINTS and Michael Chekhov
E-mail us for the next Free class
By reservation only Call: 212-736-3309 or e-mail
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| NEW RASABOXES
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Actors Become “Athletes of the Emotions”
 
 Summer Intensive 10 day Workshop
Dates TBA
Cost $550
Discount Early Registration by June 30th $50.00
 Ten
days 40 hours
Summer Intensive RASABOXES Workshop
Master Teacher Paula Murray Cole
e-mail or call to Register : 212 736-3309
ams@actorsmovementnstudio.com
Click Here: http://www.actorsmovementstudio.com/rasaboxes
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NEW
Spring Class 2008 Michael Chekhov for the Actor
 “The
essence of our profession… is to give. What is it
that we in the
theater
give? … We give our body, voice, feelings, will, imagination – we
give a form of pulsating art to life itself; we give it to our characters and
we give it to our audiences. Nothing, absolutely nothing remains for us save
the pleasure of having given pleasure. And yet it is only by this miraculous
process that our love grows and our talent is fulfilled and replenished.”— Michael
Chekhov
Michael Chekhov for the Actor
Classes is Chekhov Technique of Acting
Ten Week Intensive
Michael Chekhov Technique for actors:
Chekhov
on Chekhov ©
Anton and Michael
The text: The Three sisters
Application
of: Michael
Chekhov Technique
Wed 11-1pm Saturday 11-1Pm
10 Weeks $300
Early Registration Discount $50. Register by Feb 9
This class will explore Michael Chekhov’s "psycho-physical" approach
to acting, through the basic principles and exercises outlined in Chekhov’s
book “To the Actor”, including psycho/physical
exercises, character work and ensemble improvisation. Each
class begins with a warm-up specifically designed to develop the organic connection
between the actor's inner life, creative imagination and expressive body. Through
the rigorous practice of Chekhov’s core exercises students will explore;
Radiating and Receiving, Archetypes, Imaginary Centers, Imaginary
body, Character Atmospheres, Overall scenic Atmospheres, Qualities of Movement,
Imaginary Palace, and Psychological Gesture, along with on camera adjustments and
more… Chekhov's
technique consists of a wide variety effective acting tools, which can inspire
endless possibilities for enlarging the actor's creativity
and artistic expression - the actor can then bring this
sensibility to the creation of a character, exploration of the text, and inspired
performance.
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"My experience at the Summer Theater
Intensive of 2005 was incredible . I learned so many things not only about the
dramatic craft but about myself, too. I experienced how to "let go" and
be. I am a big fan of Williamson technique and Michael Chekhov technique. Catherine
Fitzmaurice was also very helpful, I learned all these amazing exercises which
help me open my voice even more."
Student 2005 - Ina Imprescia opera singer |
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SUMMER
THEATER INTENSIVE Students 2005
"The Actors Movement Studio Summer Theater Intensive was a unique
experience because not only did it allow me to tap into emotional resources I
had not previously explored, but it also provided a one-of-a-kind bonding experience
that has yet to be repeated. I am fascinated by Michael Chekov technique and
I still use viewpoints in my current projects. It was a pleasure to play Oscar
Wilde in the Salon because not only did it give me a chance to really perform,
but it also gave me the opportunity to learn a lot about what went on in the
personal life of a genius whose work is a classic and a must for everyone who's
interested in theater and life in general. My experience that summer is one I
could not speaking of for several months after it was over and it is one that
I still think of when people ask me for recommendations for where to spend their
summer." - Amir Levi
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Williamson Technique
 The body and voice…are already one instrument that is activated by the
same source with one result: the production of behavior. Integration [of the
body and the voice] is not an issue. As a physical specialist, I’m often
asked to ‘just deal with the actor’s body.’ Experiential life
and physical life, acting impulses and physical impulses are all part of this
single relationship. Sensory contact, experience, and behavior are all parts
of one event occurring in one indivisible place, the actor’s body.”
- Loyd Williamson, Movement for Actors
Williamson Technique
I & II
Mon & Wed,
10-12pm
10 Weeks $ 500 2 Classes
10 Weeks $300 1 Class
Early Registration Discount 50 by Feb 3 |
To register
Call: 212-736-3309 or e-mail
ams@actorsmovementstudio.com
Spring Schedule Click
here
Soul of the American Actor – Interview click
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The Williamson Movement Technique
Addresses how the imaginary world and craft of the actor comes alive in
the body. Through deep exploration of breath, sensuality, dramatic movement,
alignment, intimacy exercises and ensemble work, the actors engage in a process
of physical awareness as to how their body functions in their art form. The actor’s
imagination is activated in every class using fantasy and relationship exercises
thus integrating craft and physical work.
Williamson Technique,
is a series of exercises that train the actor's ability to listen & communicate
with the whole body while developing a stronger awareness of their own experience & the
experience of beingpart of
an ensemble. Two major aspects of the work are freedom & connection.
Total physical freedom in the actor's behavior leads to his or her complete
connection with the relationships & circumstances
of the imaginary world.The actor explores
how experiences flow out of the body into sound and motion
(behavior) using specific movement choreography and vocal exercises. During
this process, the actor becomes aware of those places in their body where tension
occurs and will learn ways to promote the release of that tension thus deepening
breath, enhancing vocal quality, opening the body to receive and respond to contact,
enriching actor’s experience and allowing the body move with
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Movement for Actors
New book
with Chapter by Loyd Williamson |
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The
Williamson Physical Technique:
The Physical Process of Acting |
Excerpt:
"...The body has many tasks in acting, but perhaps the highest and most
sacred of them all is processing the life that flows through actors' bodies when
they are acting. The physical instrument is entrusted with the artist's creation.
Imagine that a rare event occurs: The actor's body falters in processing his
creation. We, the audience, then , may miss out on an experience that might have
stayed with us through our lives. The actor creates the world in which we live
during the play or film; the job of the body is to process the life that flows
from that world. The processing begins as the actor begins making contact through
his five senses with the people and place surrounding him. He must have an almost
animal focus and allow that sensory life to permeate his entire body. The phrase
we will use is, "the actor's inner life is activated by his sensory contact
with the outer world." That activity sends the life out of the body into
behavior. Processing is taking in, activating, and sending out. An actor with
an effective physical technique will spend his life working to process more effortlessly..."
To purchase the book, please contact
us.
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 Summer
TBA
Catherine
Fitzmaurice
Voice Lab
Visiting, Guest Artist
Catherine Fitzmaurice |
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We
are proud to announce that the Actors Movement Studio will be featured in this
week's Show Business Weekly in an article by Linda Armstrong on Classical
Theatre Training. Featured are pictures of our students from our Baroque
Salon this past semester. Read Article here.
"The most outstanding value of a Period Style class is that it produces
actors that move and live within the style of a period with total truthfulness,
vocal freedom, physical grace and ease. Actors learn to create an expansive character
free fro the limits of their everyday physical and vocal habits. Immersed in
the circumstances of the place and time of an era, the actors as an ensemble
create an imaginary world. This Fall they will become Edwardians living in the
opulent era of the Belle Epoch" said Janice Orlandi, co-artistic director
of Actors Movement Studio.
Past
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Anna
Sokolow
"Anna Sokolow is the mentor who to this day remains
the mother of my artistic soul. From my work with Dramatic Movement for actors
with Anna, I discovered the aesthetics of movement, and the expressive beauty
of another Art. For Anna, movement must grow from the actor's inner experience.
She taught actors how to awaken the inner experience by listening to their entire
bodies, and to other artists: musicians, composers and poets, (which for me expanded
to include, painters, singers and dancers)."
--Loyd Williamson
In the 1930s, Sokolow began giving classes to
the Group Theatre, and she continued to work with actors as well as dancers until
the very last years of her life. In the 1940s and '50s, she worked with Elia
Kazan at the Actors Studio, and in 1958, she began decades of teaching actors
and dancers at the Juilliard Dance Division. "My first aim is to free the actor from his self-consciousness," she
once commented. "I make him forget about the clichés about having
to smoke, to touch or handle something.... It may seem to the actor that he is
learning how to move and how to use his body, but what he really learns is to
be simple, honest and human."
To learn more about Anna Sokolow, Click
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Congratulations
Alumni Micah Alberti
on his new TV series!
"Nothing influenced
my work as much as Actors Movement Studio classes. This work had a profound effect
on my ability to respond with freedom as an actor..." -Micah Alberti
Click
here for more info.
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Day time Emmy Award Winner
Tom Pelphrey (Jonathan,
Guiding Light)
Outstanding Younger Actor In A Drama Series
GUIDING LIGHT * CBS
TOM PELPHREY, AS JONATHAN RANDALL
Studied Williamson Technique
for Actors at Mason Gross School of the Arts. Rutgers University |
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Edwardian
Period Style Summer intensive 2008
The style project accompanies either Level IIIA or Level IV Class. The
actor researches and develops a character through historical and cultural etiquette,
manners, protocol, dances, clothes, cultural, and social relationships of the
period. The period characters are created using the principles of the Technique
such as: sensual contact, open range of sound, and physical alignment.
For more
info please click
here.
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Loyd Williamson
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Loyd
Williamson Jr.
Founder of Actors Movement Studio.
He is the creator and author of the Williamson Physical
Technique, and of The Williamson Advanced Period Style Project, "The Salon" ®
He was the principal Movement Professor at The School of the Arts, Rutgers University
from 1979 to 2001; served on the faculty of HB Studio for eleven years; visiting
professor at the Tisch School of the Arts for three years; for The Juilliard
School; and the Princeton Shakespeare Festival. He has taught classes and coached
actors on Broadway, and in Feature Film, Television, Regional theaters, and many
conservatories.
His acting training was with Sandford Meisner in his two year professional classes,
with Harold Clurman, and with Michael Howard. His mentor in actor’s movement
training was Anna Sokolow, with whom he trained for 12 Years, and performed in
her Players Project. He received and MFA degree from the School of Theater, University
of Georgia, specializing in scene and lighting design with major in Directing.
For a brief biography click
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| Related
Links |
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| ActorsLife.com, the professional actors’ online resource |
http://www.ActorsLife.com |
Jason Bennet Actors Workshop
History of Meisner Technique
Fitzmaurice Voice
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www.JBActors.com/ |
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