Unleashing the Creative Self
and becoming character
a character embodiment workshop
3 DAYS, NYC, DECEMBER 4/5/6 530PM-930PM
The essence of our job as actors is being in character—inhabiting a total mind-body experience of the needs, beliefs, fears, gifts, demands, cruelty, body tensions and so on, of a character’s reality. Embodied in the here and now, without judgment. Our job is centred around character and our ability to embody a character-experience.
This workshop focuses on the fundamental elements of our craft, changing the way we use ourselves and our energy in service of revealing character. The workshop allows the participants space to explore their own creative skill, and energetic abilities of transformation. We are cultivating a pathway to our own intuitive flow and inner genius. The playful inner child who revels in their creative freedom.
Stepping into another character’s world brings insight for the actor on how they habitually organize their own reality. Actors have found this holistic character embodiment approach to be nourishing as an artist as well as on their healing journey as people.
Tools are presented as essential character building blocks and the actor is allowed to experience how their creativity and essence puts together the pieces and moves within different character structures. Character is a system for organizing reality and directs our perceptions and actions. The actor will receive a practical, working model of character and how to apply it in their work. Focus is placed on the actor’s ability to transform their lens of reality and move from an entirely different place, developing the energetic skill of stepping into a character’s shoes.
The goal of this workshop is to sensitize the actor to their own creative impulse. To lower the noise (judgment, criticism, distraction, control) and allow the actor to make contact with their own inner creative signal. This is not a scene study class. This work centres on the creative and energetic aspects of our craft and the stuff of character, allowing all actors to work at the same time and for the whole of class. Moving from the remembering, controlling self to the experiencing self.
This workshop borrows techniques and fundamentals of group therapeutic processing work to strengthen the actors conviction in themselves through contact with and support of the group through time for sharing and connecting. This workshop is a community of artists growing together.
All levels are welcome. Please contact me to set up a consultation to see if this class is the right fit for you.
COST: $300 (Early bird discount $250 by Nov 6th)