movement for actors & dancers
movement for actor classes this spring!
Enrich - or discover - your physical acting skills and become a storyteller through movement and physical theater. Together we will create a safe space to move, play, act, take risks, and collaborate as an ensemble. All are welcome, no experience needed.
Classes start 3:40-5:30pm Thursday May 7th
Location: Pacific View Arts Center, Encinitas, CA
movement for actors
Movement for acting is a rich field of exploration and application.
Somatic approaches help actors engage sensation, awareness, visualization, imagination and meaning-making to move in relationship to gravity and space, connect to their core and sequence movement through their bodies.
Ensemble approaches help actors connect to and create with others, with movement enabling intuitive, sensitive, empathetic cooperation to take place without the need for words.
The Laban/Bartenieff system helps actors dive deep into exploring physicality for character, and to have the creative tools and understanding needed to expand their range of expression.
movement for dancers
A Bartenieff informed somatic approach is hugely beneficial for dancers, especially those who have been trained with an “outside in” approach. Reconnecting dancers with sensation and visualization, and helping them connect with their inner patterning, offers them an internalized approach to embodying such concepts as grounding and fluidity.
A Laban-informed approach offers a dazzling spectrum of dynamic qualities, spatial relationships, and engagement of the whole self to bring to dance making and performing. It is especially helpful for choreographers exploring and expanding their artistic range.
For Laban-resource dance films, see Living Architecture: Rudolph Laban & the Geometry of Dance and Mapping Space: Choreographic Resources for Dance Education.
