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The study of acting should begin with physical action - a specialized, structured, flexible and adaptable physical action that is enlisted in the direct service of the expression of thought and feeling. I call this integrated physical action an expressive action).-Michael Lugering. A group of actors work through a series of carefully structured exercises and improvisations that unlock the physical, raw materials that make human expression possible. Whether the actor is expressing love, loss, rage or joy, unlocking these universal will provide the building blocks for captivating and dynamic acting.
A group of actors demonstrate a variety of improvisatory techniques and exercises designed to expand the actors imagination and expressive power. Rooted in impulse, spontaneity, and creativity, the improvisations will lead you to new and unfamiliar methods of expression never thought possible and many of which you have never experienced in your personal life. These basic exercises can easily be modified and adapted for on-going growth and development. All the while, your acting repertoire increases and becomes more nuanced and sophisticated.
Joan Melton, an internationally recognized actor trainer and author, interviews Master Teacher Michael Lugering in a theoretical discussion of recent discoveries in philosophy, somatic psychology, neuroscience and aesthetics that underpin the integrated voice, movement and acting method presented in this series.
A group of actors demonstrate a series of voice and body exercises that unite a series of moving, breathing and sounding actions in an integrated full-bodied acting workout. These smart exercises do more than simply build essential skills in alignment, movement, respiration, resonance and range, but simultaneously prepare the actor for the expression of the bodyss richest and most powerful thoughts and feelings. The goal is the development of a flexible and dynamic voice and body that is hard-wired to express thought and feeling.
Karen Black, the Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner shares 40 years worth of insights into the craft of acting. This in-depth interview covers everything from perfecting regional accents to finding a characters inner needs, all from one of the most respected performers of her generation. Black gave the world an array of unforgettable screen characters and worked with such world class directors as Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Altman, Bob Rafelson, Jack Clayton and John Schlesinger. Her many memorable feature films include Five Easy Pieces, Easy Rider, Nashville, The Great Gatsby, Family Plot, The Day of the Locust, Portnoys Complaint, Airport 75 and Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. Also includes a bonus feature with Film critic Ben Mankiewicz as they reflect on Blacks noteworthy career, her legacy and her contribution to a profoundly significant era in American cinema.
Soviet Acting Models relates how Stanislavsky began his study of acting by watching the great actors of his day and the change that occurred as Soviet actors observed human behavior and discovered that by defining actions through Movement with Purpose, their acting became quickly doable and specific.
Teaches: Acting Models; Stella Adler in the Stanislavsky Tradition before the Soviets; the Two-Part Model of an Action.
Tells the amazing story of the progression of Stanislavsky acting training in the United States and how some of the major Stanislavsky-influenced acting techniques relate to each other and to Stanislavsky from the Outside In.
Teaches: Stanislavsky studying actors; Moscow Art Theater & the Russian Revolution; Stella Adler; Group Theater & the American Great Depression; Lee Strasberg; Sanford Meisner.
Rehearsal Models apply the Models on-set and reinforce that what we react to in life is external and not from inside us. The addition of the Truth Model demonstrates how prop use in rehearsal carries over to performance. The Teacup Poodle Model demonstrates how actors, can create an image outside of them for a desired response.
Teaches: What makes a professional "professional"; The writer's, director's & actor's Materials; The difference between feelings & emotions; How feelings are communicated; How Acting Models are applied to acting; Loading; the Teacup Poodle Model; acting advice from Stella Adler.
Another revolutionary shift in technique to help students understand exactly what feelings and emotions are and their specific roles in creating emotions in the audience.
Teaches: What exactly are feelings and emotions? Who feels them? Who are they for?
These Models provide both structure and vocabulary which allow them to be applied to your acting, directing or writing and then effectively shared and repeated. Continue the discovery that our bodies can reflect what our minds are thinking by revealing how we place our attention in different locations including the past, present and future.
Teaches: Attention on your own body; attention on your immediate surroundings; attention outside your immediate surrounding; attention "one with the universe."
Reveals the "materials" that actors, directors and writers use in their professions and the division of labor this allows. A must for working effectively on a set.
Teaches:The writer's material; The director's material; The actor's material.
Best Selling theater textbook author Robert Cohen describes and illustrates his hour basic principles of acting. He employs a simple exercise in which students first recite the American Pledge of Allegiance, the learn to act this text as part of a dramatic situation. These four points ( Goal, Other People, Tactics, Expectations ) are an essential starting point for the study of all acting methods and styles.
Academy Award winning actor Michael Caine, internationally acclaimed for his talented performances in movies for over twentyfive years, shares his personal insights into the art and science of film acting. Mr. Caine gives you a once-in-a-lifetime chance to rob him blind! The man who's hypnotized the camera lenses for a quarter of a century reveals the most closely guarded secrets on script preparation. Working with the director, forming a character, voice, sound, and movement. Pearl by pearl he lays out the Caine wisdom on everything from set politics to set decorum, the film bureaucracy and more!
A 60-Minute workshop led by Maria Aitken. Uses examples from Coward, Wilde, Sheridan and Congreve. This program reveals the spark that transforms a routine reading into a vibrant one in a scene from Private Lives, which by the time Aitken has finished with it, it has attained something close to brilliance.
Callow, one of Britain's foremost actors, shows the way to attain clarity and hilarity in some of the most delighfful roles ever conceived for the theater. With the text as his inspiration, he shapes an actor's sensibility, coaching a performance that will show full knowledge of the age. A workshop directed by Simon Callow, using scenes from The Relapse by Sir John Vanbrugh.
Totally and incisively in charge, her unscripted preamble is a dramatic lesson in itself; with all the right places to create a dramatic effect you can cut with a knife. Her dissertation on the difference between tragedy and comedy is masterly.
The "video Bible"? for Actors and is the A-Z on everything you need to know to make it in Hollywood. Mike Fenton, with over 35 years of casting experience and renowned casting director of titles such as The Godfather II, Back to the Future I, II & III, Total Recall, E.T., shows his expertise covering in depth, topics such as Entertainment Business Primer, Resumes, Headshots, Video Demo Reels, Managers, Agents, Auditions and more. Learn from the expert who for over a decade cast 50% of all motion pictures in Hollywood! Take an inside look with the ultimte insider as his unique style of honesty, candor and truthfulness exposes a number of insider secrets to success in Hollywood. Get the answers to hundreds of questions such as: how Hollywood works, Hollywood etiquette, how to avoid career detrimental mistakes, (what the most common mistakes actors make), resumes (how to create the industry standard CSA resume), headshots (making your headshot land you an audition), making your demo reels effective (What to do and What not to do), agents (How to get one), managers (Do I need to get one and what they can do for me), auditions, cold readings, showcases and generals (How to get the Job) and auditioning techniques that will get you work. Through real auditions Mike illustrates and provides the tools needed to increase an actors chance to "get the job". Valuable advice, questions and answers and some of the most interesting stories ever told by the ultimate industry insider.
The "video Bible"? for Actors and is the A-Z on everything you need to know to make it in Hollywood. Mike Fenton, with over 35 years of casting experience and renowned casting director of titles such as The Godfather II, Back to the Future I, II & III, Total Recall, E.T., shows his expertise covering in depth, topics such as Entertainment Business Primer, Resumes, Headshots, Video Demo Reels, Managers, Agents, Auditions and more. Learn from the expert who for over a decade cast 50% of all motion pictures in Hollywood! Take an inside look with the ultimte insider as his unique style of honesty, candor and truthfulness exposes a number of insider secrets to success in Hollywood. Get the answers to hundreds of questions such as: how Hollywood works, Hollywood etiquette, how to avoid career detrimental mistakes, (what the most common mistakes actors make), resumes (how to create the industry standard CSA resume), headshots (making your headshot land you an audition), making your demo reels effective (What to do and What not to do), agents (How to get one), managers (Do I need to get one and what they can do for me), auditions, cold readings, showcases and generals (How to get the Job) and auditioning techniques that will get you work. Through real auditions Mike illustrates and provides the tools needed to increase an actors chance to "get the job". Valuable advice, questions and answers and some of the most interesting stories ever told by the ultimate industry insider.
The "video Bible"? for Actors and is the A-Z on everything you need to know to make it in Hollywood. Mike Fenton, with over 35 years of casting experience and renowned casting director of titles such as The Godfather II, Back to the Future I, II & III, Total Recall, E.T., shows his expertise covering in depth, topics such as Entertainment Business Primer, Resumes, Headshots, Video Demo Reels, Managers, Agents, Auditions and more. Learn from the expert who for over a decade cast 50% of all motion pictures in Hollywood! Take an inside look with the ultimte insider as his unique style of honesty, candor and truthfulness exposes a number of insider secrets to success in Hollywood. Get the answers to hundreds of questions such as: how Hollywood works, Hollywood etiquette, how to avoid career detrimental mistakes, (what the most common mistakes actors make), resumes (how to create the industry standard CSA resume), headshots (making your headshot land you an audition), making your demo reels effective (What to do and What not to do), agents (How to get one), managers (Do I need to get one and what they can do for me), auditions, cold readings, showcases and generals (How to get the Job) and auditioning techniques that will get you work. Through real auditions Mike illustrates and provides the tools needed to increase an actors chance to "get the job". Valuable advice, questions and answers and some of the most interesting stories ever told by the ultimate industry insider.
The "video Bible"? for Actors and is the A-Z on everything you need to know to make it in Hollywood. Mike Fenton, with over 35 years of casting experience and renowned casting director of titles such as The Godfather II, Back to the Future I, II & III, Total Recall, E.T., shows his expertise covering in depth, topics such as Entertainment Business Primer, Resumes, Headshots, Video Demo Reels, Managers, Agents, Auditions and more. Learn from the expert who for over a decade cast 50% of all motion pictures in Hollywood! Take an inside look with the ultimte insider as his unique style of honesty, candor and truthfulness exposes a number of insider secrets to success in Hollywood. Get the answers to hundreds of questions such as: how Hollywood works, Hollywood etiquette, how to avoid career detrimental mistakes, (what the most common mistakes actors make), resumes (how to create the industry standard CSA resume), headshots (making your headshot land you an audition), making your demo reels effective (What to do and What not to do), agents (How to get one), managers (Do I need to get one and what they can do for me), auditions, cold readings, showcases and generals (How to get the Job) and auditioning techniques that will get you work. Through real auditions Mike illustrates and provides the tools needed to increase an actors chance to "get the job". Valuable advice, questions and answers and some of the most interesting stories ever told by the ultimate industry insider.
An unforgettable hour with the famous casting director, author and teacher. He helped launch the careers of Barbara Streisand, Robert Redford, Lily Tomlin, Dustin Hoffman, Bette Midler and many others.
"Shurtleff On Acting" is a lively documentary on the life and teaching of the remarkable Michael Shurtleff. Join Michael Shurtleff for a dynamic series of acting workshops. Michael shows how to find the core of each scene and teaches how to take the emotional risks along the way. The workshop scenes are complemented by remarkable interviews with Gene Hackman, Elliot Gould and others, unfolding the story of Michael's work with the many of the luminaries of the American stage and screen.
When Streisand, Redford, Tomlin, Midler and Hoffman got their first breaks, Michael Shurtleff was there. When he published his classic book on acting, "Audition" it sold over two million copies. Educated at the Yale School of Drama, Michael Shurtleff virtually invented the position of casting director on Broadway. A casting director of David Merrick, Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins, Peter Brook and others, he has cast over 60 hit shows including, Ethel Merman's "Gypsy," "I Can Get It For You Wholesale," "Irma La Douce," "Pippin," "Beckett," "The Lion In Winter," "The Odd Couple" and "Jesus Christ Superstar." He has also cast many films including, "The Graduate" and "The Sound Of Music."
How do you keep a fresh scene presence? Where does an actor find the emotional truth required to inhabit a role? What do actors need from a director to assist their own process?
Four seasoned professionals talk about their craft. Their emphasis is on making a character come alive and evoking authentic emotional responses on stage. They also discuss approaches to bodily movement, research, work with the scripts, rehearsal techniques and modes of actor / director communication.
"How do you assist natural talent to full expression?" "What is getting to the heart of acting all about?" "How is the power of live performance moved into film and television?" Three prominent teachers discuss these issues as you view scenes from their acting workshops with emphasis on specific improvisational techniques and the building of a character step-by-step.