Acting Process ~ Authentic Presence & Play

Over a gentle, slow arc , begin to find (and tell) your story.  Mining for metaphor and poetry in your experience, learn a series of performance and directing techniques; together we will discover the unique lens through which your personal telling takes shape.  Some will wish to keep it just their own, and some may wish to be witnessed by an invited audience.  Others still may prefer this in a group setting, to share the process with those also embarking on personal story-telling.   

Partnering technique utilizing subtle repetition on rhythmic beat, leaving no time to self-edit, and only the space to "listen" or receive nuanced detail from the other person on every turn.  Discover deep presence and attunement to unconscious need, intention, action and tactic - the tools of breaking down behavior (of character or of oneself) into understandable parts.  Links to Stanislavski's system of truthful acting (based on Freud's early psychoanalytic theory).

Teachers, Public Speakers, or Anyone wishing to feel more connection to their true presence while on Voice - release habitual strain held in the body, identify blocks of self-critique, and access your pure and powerful Voice.     

De-Structuring Tremoring techniques move breath into all areas of the body, finding deep physiological and emotional release.  

Re-Structuring creates empowered, supportive muscular breath management for a resilient, resonant Voice - an instrument of connection.

Learn techniques for letting go of old patterns of overexertion or strain in daily functioning, restoring efficiency of movement with deep presence and resilience in the breath and voice.  Release patterns of strain in basic tasks like walking, sitting, speaking; and reroute to a congruent, attuned functioning in loving relationship to Body and Self.  Discover your true connection to the earth and how much more ease is possible!

Learn tools for breaking down what's really underneath that character's behavior... and your own!  Working through a role, a dance, a song, or other mode of artistic expression of your choice, learn the tools of Naturalistic Acting, based on psychoanalytic theory of the Superobjective: the hole in the soul, the need that drives you and your character.  Learn tools for kinesthetic imagination, sensory work of the Actors Studio, and open yourself to empathetic embodiment of another person's or being's point of view. 

Learn Bertolt Brecht's Epic Theatre theory and application, framing the choices a character makes and commenting on the choice to make obvious, the systemic injustices of the world and the ways in which one must adapt for their own survival.   Learn tools of juxtaposition, gesture, breaking the fourth wall, and Framing Action that incite the viewer into making change.  Performance technique celebrates non-believability to prevent viewers from being sucked into the lives of characters and forget to take action.