This Workshop Package is Perfect for the Beginner Actor or Any Actor looking to learn technique and add an Audition Monologue to their Arsenal.
Astoria Acting Workshop is Offering a Package of Workshops including Method Acting Fundamentals: Relaxation and Sensory Work, Movement for the Actor, and Audition Monologue. This package is tailored to give the actor a visceral and well-rounded understanding of Acting technique, based on Lee Strasberg's “The Method”. Actors will learn how to apply their learning to an audition piece.
This Series runs from April 19th to June 14th. Saturday Mornings: 9am -11am & 11am -1pm.
Package Overview:
This package is tailored to give the actor a visceral and well-rounded understanding of Acting technique, based on Lee Strasberg's “The Method”.
Students will bring in or be assigned a two-minute audition monologue before Week 2, in which they will discover how to apply the technique to a piece of text. The actors will have a polished audition monologue by Week 8. This is an 8-week, two-hour weekly workshop series. Workshop sizes are small, and you stay with the group throughout.
Throughout this 8-week period, students will have time to reflect, digest and do their homework in between classes so that they may actively strengthen their skills by making it part of their daily routine.
Homework will consist of practicing relaxation and sensory work at least 1 hour, 4 times a week outside of the workshop. Once the students start working on their monologues, they will be required to do some scene and character analysis through basic script and character analysis tools.
If someone needs to cancel a class, please provide ample notice and there will be 1 makeup class arrangement. No more than 1 cancellation will be permitted.
8 Week Breakdown:
Week 1
Week 1
Week 1
Relaxation & Sensory Work: Getting Familiar with Relaxation and Deepening the Sensory Work - prior to the workshop, actors will have been asked to bring small objects into the workshop which they will use to activate their senses and discover the power of their concentration and imagination.
Week 2
Week 1
Week 1
Relaxation & Sensory Work: Actors will be given their monologues by week two as well as light script analysis, so that they may exercise in the workshop something they can use sensorially that they can apply to their character's circumstances.
Actors will be asked to memorize a line or two of text from their monologue and be prepared to bring it in for Week 3.
Week 3
Week 1
Week 3
Movement for the Actor:
Actors will be introduced to a movement-based exercise leaving the actor feeling present and connected to their instruments, similar to relaxation. The actors will then apply the movement-based exercise to the sensory world of their characters; uniting sensory work, movement, while using the text from the monologue as a filter of vocal expression.
Actors will be asked to continue to work on their monologues and are encouraged to memorize more of the text to bring into the workshop the following week.
Week 4
Week 3
Relaxation & Sensory Work:
We will practice a 20-minute guided relaxation exercise, followed by exploring the sensory world of our characters' circumstances, while working with the text from the monologue to give our text life.
Week 5
Monologues:
Including a 20-minute guided relaxation and sensory work “drop in”, followed by Early monologue work. Students do not need to be off book by this date. Though they are still encouraged to memorize more of the text, in order to continue to deepen the understanding of their characters' circumstances.
Week 6
Movement for the Actor:
Actors will revisit the movement-based exercise awakening the actor's presence and connection to their instruments.
The actors will then apply the movement-based exercise to the sensory world of their characters; uniting sensory work, movement, while using the text from the monologue as a filter of vocal expression.
Actors will be asked to continue to work on their monologues and are encouraged to memorize more of the text to bring into the workshop the following week.
Week 7
Week 7
Week 7
Relaxation & Sensory Work:
Actors will continue to explore the sensory world with their characters' circumstances.
Week 8
Week 7
Week 7
Monologues:
Drop in, including Relaxation and Sensory Work followed by Monologue Work.