With Sarah Kane

Please note: the 12 workshops are designed as a whole but can be taken individually. Please bring both a monologue and a scene, soft-soled shoes and clothes suitable for movement.

STEP 1 (PREPARING): MOVEMENT, GESTURE AND THE ACTOR’S BODY

Thursday 1 October 10.00 – 17.00.

STEP 2 (PREPARING): THE FOUR QUALITIES OF MOVEMENT         

Monday 5 October 10.00 – 17.00

STEP 3 (PREPARING):  EASE, FORM, BEAUTY AND ENTIRETY        

Thursday 15 October 10.00 – 17.00

STEP 4 (PREPARING): THE PSYCHOLOGICAL GESTURE                    

Friday 16 October 10.00 – 17.00

STEP 5 (TRANSFORMING): THE CHARACTER’S IMAGINARY BODY        

Thursday 29 October 10.00 – 17.00

STEP 6 (TRANSFORMING): IMAGINARY CENTRES AS THE CHARACTER’S CORE

Friday 30 October 10.00 – 17.00

STEP 7 (TRANSFORMING) THE CHARACTER’S SPEECH                                   

Thursday 12 November 10.00 – 17.00

STEP 8 (TRANSFORMING) THE CHARACTER’S PSYCHOLOGICAL GESTURE

Friday 13 November 10.00 – 17.00       

STEP 9 (CREATING PERFORMANCE) ATMOSPHERES                         

Thursday 26 November 10.00 – 17.00

STEP 10 (CREATING PERFORMANCE) COMPOSITION OF THE PERFORMANCE

Friday 27 November 10.00 – 17.00

STEP 11 (CREATING PERFORMANCE) PHYSICALISING WORDS AS GESTURE       

Thursday 17 December 10.00 – 17.00

STEP 12 (CREATING PERFORMANCE) THE CHARACTER AND THE TEXT              

Friday 18 December 10.00 – 17.00

Sarah Kane has been teaching, performing and directing using both Chekhov’s technique for acting and Steiner’s approach to speech. She has taught and directed regularly in Germany, Spain, France, the USA, China and India. She currently runs regular classes at Rudolf Steiner House in central London.

Cost: £48 per workshop

Booking is through the New Actors Centre website: www.newactorscentre.org

Please Note: In order to attend these workshops, you will need to become a member of the New Actors Centre. It’s £15 for a term or £40 for a year. This gives you access to all their classes at reasonable rates. You can easily become a member here: The New Actors Centre