The Foundations of Michael Chekhov’s Approach to Acting and Performance and Steiner’s approach to Speech and Voice

A sequence of one-day/weekend workshops in three parts September 2024 - June 2025

with Sarah Kane

These one-day/weekend workshops provide an opportunity to explore practically the core elements of the highly artistic acting techniques developed by the Russian actor Michael Chekhov in the middle of the twentieth century augmented by Steiner’s creative approach to speech and voice. Both approaches aim to inspire and empower actors for their future work by building a living and sensitive bridge between the movement and the speech of an actor.

The workshops are grouped in three parts over the year, with Acting on a Saturday and Speech on the following Sunday. Although they are designed as a series and build from one to the next, each workshop is an entirety in itself and can be taken individually.

Part 1: September - December 2024

ACTING AND THE IMAGINATION

2. ENLIVENING MOVEMENT: MOVEMENT QUALITIES
Saturday 19 October 10.00 - 17.30
This will be a day of connecting movement and the imagination, exploring four archetypal qualities and improvising with them, as a step towards transforming into character.

ENLIVENING SPEECH: SOUNDS
Sunday 20 October 10.00 - 17.30
Can words carry atmospheres and their colours? The workshop will explore how the wealth of English vowels can be used to colour and transform any piece of text.

3.ENLIVENING SPACE: ATMOSPHERES
Saturday 14 December 10.00 - 17.30
Giving actors the tools with which to develop a sense of the life of the space they work in is one of Chekhov’s great contributions to the art of acting: we will be investigating those tools with the help of the imagination.

COLOURING WORDS
Sunday 15 December 10.00 - 17.30
Please bring clothes and shoes suitable for both movement and speech workshops as a well as a piece of text such as a monologue or poem known by heart, so that it can be used in the exploration of any aspect of the techniques in practice.

Workshop Fees: 1 workshop day: £55
1 weekend workshop (Saturday & Sunday): £95

TO FOLLOW:
Part 2: MOVEMENT
January - March 2025
Saturdays: FROM MOVEMENT TO GESTURE IN ACTING
Sundays: FROM MOVEMENT TO GESTURE IN SPEECH
Part 3: CHARACTER
April - July 2025
Saturdays: CREATING CHARACTER
Sundays: CREATING A CHARACTER IN VOICE AND SPEECH

To book: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/e-yeqvvv