Description
This is a course designed to develop your instrument: cultivate your visceral imagination, availability, spontaneous responsiveness; equip you with tools for making deep, specific, personal connections to the essential human dilemmas that drive world theater. Beginning with structured improvisation, Meisner and pre-verbal physical exercises; and moving on to the Physically Extraordinary texts, the work will focus on reliable techniques for creating a specific preparation, deep and responsive listening, following through with physical impulses safely. We will end the term with a unit in Heightened Text (including but not limited to Shakespeare), where we will learn skills to embody language and characters that demand extraordinary physical and vocal form.
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