Upcoming workshops:
The Artist’s Way (12 week course)
Take risks, lighten up and rediscover your creativity within a supportive environment!
The Artist’s Way is a 12 week course exploring inner creativity. For some that inner creativity could be getting in touch with their artistic dramatic side, while for others it might look like being more creative in their personal or work life.
Based on a best-selling book The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, this course explores and seeks to overcome what blocks the full expression of our creativity and playfulness. The basic assumption of The Artist’s Way is that you do not have to learn how to be more creative; instead you need to free your natural creativity. Our creativity can be blocked, and also unlocked.
The Artist’s Way, is a road map to reclaim creativity, each week offering a different dimension to re-connect to. It is a ‘gentle’ book that can have a big impact, particularly when it’s worked through in a facilitated group setting with the opportunity to deepen into the learning through additional exercises and experiences.
Who is the course for?
This course is open to all- whether you see yourself as an artist or not. We use the word "artist" in the broadest sense. The word "artist" actually is defined as "someone who is a creative person (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)."
Come to this course if you would like to :
Dates: January 4th- March 22nd 2017 (12 Wednesdays)
Times: 18:30-20:30
Place: central Edinburgh (details TBC)
Cost: £180 (possibility to pay in 2 or 3 instalments)
Book early to avoid disappointment as spaces are limited to 8 only!
For more info and to sign up write to: martasz78@yahoo.co.uk
Deadline December 21st!
Take risks, lighten up and rediscover your creativity within a supportive environment!
The Artist’s Way is a 12 week course exploring inner creativity. For some that inner creativity could be getting in touch with their artistic dramatic side, while for others it might look like being more creative in their personal or work life.
Based on a best-selling book The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, this course explores and seeks to overcome what blocks the full expression of our creativity and playfulness. The basic assumption of The Artist’s Way is that you do not have to learn how to be more creative; instead you need to free your natural creativity. Our creativity can be blocked, and also unlocked.
The Artist’s Way, is a road map to reclaim creativity, each week offering a different dimension to re-connect to. It is a ‘gentle’ book that can have a big impact, particularly when it’s worked through in a facilitated group setting with the opportunity to deepen into the learning through additional exercises and experiences.
Who is the course for?
This course is open to all- whether you see yourself as an artist or not. We use the word "artist" in the broadest sense. The word "artist" actually is defined as "someone who is a creative person (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)."
Come to this course if you would like to :
- Explore how your life can be your art
- Engage sensitively with the creativity of your inner child
- Learn to acknowledge and celebrate your creative achievements
- Explore ways to dissolve blocks to self-expression
- Understand what motivates and inspires your creative muse!
- Be in charge of your own process and support others through theirs
- Have some fun and be surprised by your own blossoming
Dates: January 4th- March 22nd 2017 (12 Wednesdays)
Times: 18:30-20:30
Place: central Edinburgh (details TBC)
Cost: £180 (possibility to pay in 2 or 3 instalments)
Book early to avoid disappointment as spaces are limited to 8 only!
For more info and to sign up write to: martasz78@yahoo.co.uk
Deadline December 21st!
Improvisation for Devising Text-Based Theatre
In this 3- weeks workshop we will explore improvisation techniques for devising text-based theatre. We will explore the roles of improv games and exercises whilst using familiar texts as a base for creating new and exciting scripts.
This workshop is suitable for:
Actors and directors interested in improv techniques and/or devising theatre, looking to enrich their rehearsal process;
Writers interested in script development process that involves improvisation;
Solo performers that interested in improving their interaction with audience;
Anyone else that would find improvisation skills useful at various work or life situations;
No previous improvisational skills required.
Edinburgh:
Dates: (3 Wednesdays) November 9th, 16th and 23rd from 18:30-21:30
Venue TBC
Cost: £80
For more info and to book a space contact me: martasz78@yahoo.co.uk
Meisner Technique Acting Workshop
“Acting is the ability to live truthfully under imaginary circumstances”-Sandford Meisner
The Meisner Technique is one of the most popular approaches to acting.
Over the course of 8 weeks you will learn how to: unleash truthful, emotional performances; let go of self-consciousness; expand your acting range; build self awareness; develop the ability to act moment to moment.
Working through the series of step-by-step series of improvisational exercises will train you to be thoroughly responsive, emotionally alive, spontaneous and absolutely grounded in the reality of what is happening at any given moment with any given person. These foundational exercises will get you out of your head and into being absolutely present to the world around you and the people with whom you share it.
Although initially Meisner developed its techniques to train actors, it has worked for people of all professions who want to be more spontaneous, assertive and live here and now.
Who could benefit from this course?
Actors who want to learn/develop new acting approaches;
Actors who feel out of practice & want to re-hone their skills;
Anyone seeking a systematic approach to acting
Anyone looking to unlock their emotional potential & conquer self-consciousness
Anyone interested in improving their relationships with other people;
Dates: 25th January- 15th March (7 Wed) 7:00-9:00 pm (please note there is no class on Feb 15th)
Place: Wee Theatre space (G21) at Edinburgh Palette 151 London Rd, Edinburgh
Cost: £150
Spaces limited!
To book a space go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meisner-technique-acting-workshop-tickets-30845247967
For more info and to book a space contact me: martasz78@yahoo.co.uk
Workshops offered for groups:
- Meisner Technique- Meisner's work was based on the principle that acting is the ability to live truthfully under imaginary circumstances.His training method relies on accessing actor's impulses through which real responses and and real behaviour are accessed in the moment.
- Viewpoints- it's a movement philosophy cultivated by Anne Bogart that explores the issues of time and space allowing actors to function spontaneously and intuitively to generate bold, new work by developing flexibility, articulation and strength in movement. By practising Viewpoints actors learn to create a role and understand a script through the body and senses.
- Improvisational Techniques- fundamental improv skills needed for all acting and character work including improv games based on teaching of Viola Spolin.
- Musical Theatre Scenes and Songs- scene study focusing specifically on the acting challenges particular to the musical theatre form with emphasis on deepening character relationships and objectives through dialogue and song.
- Text Analysis and Script Development- study of different methodologies of script analysis to develop greater skill in interpretation.
- Character and Ensemble- expanding character through analysis of behaviour and motivation using variety of techniques including drawing and object exercises and playing on subtext. The workshop also includes simple exercises to create ensemble.
Coaching for individuals:
- Audition Preparation and Cold Reading
- Solo Performance
- Movement and Physical Expression
- Expanding your Acting Range with Character Work
- Making a Song Your Own
All workshops and individual sessions are always tailored to suit specific needs and levels-from beginners to advanced.