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Methodology

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In order to be a real actor, one must be a real [hu]man. A real [hu]man can be an actor and a real actor can be a

[hu]man. Everyone should try to be an actor. This is a high aim. 

G.I Gurdjieff

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HOLISTIC 

characterized by the belief that the parts of something are intimately interconnected 

and explicable only by reference to the whole 

OED

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Living Acting Studio provides tools for living and acting in the 21st century.

The studio employs a holistic & Integrative approach to contemporary acting training & coaching which sees successful acting and optimal living as interrelated and mutually beneficial processes.

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Pedagogical Framework & Principles

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PRESENCE, PLAY & ACTION

  

The training is built upon three pillars of inter-dependent and ever-evolving principles;

Presence, Play & Action, each comprised of its own key areas of study.

These principles are encountered individually and concurrently to form a continuum around your developing process.

This means that in a class or workshop the focus or point of entry may begin in any one of these areas as a gateway into all three.

 

The aim is to guide and support you in becoming a whole and fully integrated living actor-creator.

 

Please note all teaching is delivered through English

Presence

be & feel

"If you forget yourself, you become the universe." 

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- Hakuin

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  • ​Tuning your instrument: Warm-up

  • Ritualising the Work Space

  • Relaxation & Creative Calm

  • Spontaneity within a structure.

  • Physical & Vocal Centring & Release

  • Being is Doing. Neutrality & Homeostasis 

  • Accessing primary impulse and organic action.

  • Absorption of circumstances through the 5 Senses

  • Reciprocity: Giving & Receiving

  • Observation & Perception

  • Circular Concentration & Directed Attention.

  • Self with Self & Self with Others

  • Stage & Screencraft fundamentals.

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Play

relate & respond

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity"

 

- Carl Jung

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  • Free play & open improvisation

  • Theatre Games

  • Improvisation within a Structure

  • Physicalising Memory & Imagination

  • Relationship & Reciprocity 

  • Exploring the 'What If' in the Given Circumstances

  • Character Play

  • Animal Studies

  • Expressive Movement

  • Impulse & Action

  • Working with Objects

  • Ensemble Building

  • Rhythm & Musicality

  • ‘What Is’ meets ‘What if’. 

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Action

perform & transform

An act hath three branches—it is to act, to do, to perform."

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- Shakespeare

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  • Text Analysis

  • Active Analysis

  • Character Analysis

  • Scene Study

  • Dramatic Structure

  • Scoring a role.

  • Action, Intention & Justification

  • Physical Action

  • Vocal Action

  • Verbal Action

  • Action through Song

  • Generating an Acting Score

  • Working creative repetition: For the first time every time.

  • Working with Obstacles

  • Working with objects, garments & activities

  • Advanced Stage & Screencraft.

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