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Saturday 19 October 10am - Sunday 15 December 5.30pm
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 SPEECHTo book: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/e-yeqvvv
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Saturday 23 November11am - 12pm
with Graham Kennish
A 1+ hour (free) Zoom workshop to learn a practical anthroposophical method of handling anxiety and stress, through the Goethean observation of one’s own inner emotional state, with the language of gesture. You will leave with a practical exercise that you will have created yourself, to use in daily life.
Graham Kennish is a Steiner science teacher trainer, a driving instructor and a psychotherapist (MBACP Accredited) holding workshops and individual sessions in Goethean Psychology.
Free of charge, but donations to cover Zoom costs are welcome.
For further information and booking your chosen date, please contact: kennish46@gmail.com or 07973 680959
www.goetheanpsychology.co.uk
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Saturday 30 November11am - 12pm
with Graham Kennish
A 1+ hour (free) Zoom workshop to learn a practical anthroposophical method of handling anxiety and stress, through the Goethean observation of one’s own inner emotional state, with the language of gesture. You will leave with a practical exercise that you will have created yourself, to use in daily life.
Graham Kennish is a Steiner science teacher trainer, a driving instructor and a psychotherapist (MBACP Accredited) holding workshops and individual sessions in Goethean Psychology.
Free of charge, but donations to cover Zoom costs are welcome.
For further information and booking your chosen date, please contact: kennish46@gmail.com or 07973 680959
www.goetheanpsychology.co.uk
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Tuesday 3 December7.30pm - 9pm
Mandala: In Light of Self
with Aya Husni Bey
We will be approaching the Winter Solstice which is a &me when we are called to turn within and connect to our inner light. During these sessions we will work on creating a mandala. The Mandala begins with a centre, then grows and expands from the centre. Concurrently the layers of expansion in relation to the centre also contract, and hold the centre. The effect unveils the Self radiating outwardly, illuminating and secure.
Aya Husni Bey, Transpersonal Art Counsellor MCGI MBACP, and HeartMath Coach. I have 25 years experience supporting the wellbeing of people of all ages, within their social, mental, emotional and physical means in Laos, North Africa, and for the UN in the Middle East, and I am currently running a Private Practice in the U.K. I am a carrying group member of the Association for Anthroposophical Therapeutic Arts (AATA), and a Core Group Member of The Alliance for Childhood.
Full rate £25 per session, invest £50 for 2, or 150 for 6 sessions.
Book 2 Sessions £45 (save £5) Book all 6 sessions £125 (save £25)
Bring a plus 1 for 2 or 4 sessions at a 15% discount each.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/illumination-tickets-993343957517 -
Saturday 7 December11am - 12pm
with Graham Kennish
A 1+ hour (free) Zoom workshop to learn a practical anthroposophical method of handling anxiety and stress, through the Goethean observation of one’s own inner emotional state, with the language of gesture. You will leave with a practical exercise that you will have created yourself, to use in daily life.
Graham Kennish is a Steiner science teacher trainer, a driving instructor and a psychotherapist (MBACP Accredited) holding workshops and individual sessions in Goethean Psychology.
Free of charge, but donations to cover Zoom costs are welcome.
For further information and booking your chosen date, please contact: kennish46@gmail.com or 07973 680959
www.goetheanpsychology.co.uk
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Tuesday 10 December7.30pm - 9pm
Mandala: In Light of Self
with Aya Husni Bey
We will be approaching the Winter Solstice which is a &me when we are called to turn within and connect to our inner light. During these sessions we will work on creating a mandala. The Mandala begins with a centre, then grows and expands from the centre. Concurrently the layers of expansion in relation to the centre also contract, and hold the centre. The effect unveils the Self radiating outwardly, illuminating and secure.
Aya Husni Bey, Transpersonal Art Counsellor MCGI MBACP, and HeartMath Coach. I have 25 years experience supporting the wellbeing of people of all ages, within their social, mental, emotional and physical means in Laos, North Africa, and for the UN in the Middle East, and I am currently running a Private Practice in the U.K. I am a carrying group member of the Association for Anthroposophical Therapeutic Arts (AATA), and a Core Group Member of The Alliance for Childhood.
Full rate £25 per session, invest £50 for 2, or 150 for 6 sessions.
Book 2 Sessions £45 (save £5) Book all 6 sessions £125 (save £25)
Bring a plus 1 for 2 or 4 sessions at a 15% discount each.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/illumination-tickets-993343957517 -
Saturday 14 December10am - 4pm
with Sue Davies
In this workshop we will explore innate human qualities using the colours of the rainbow, and connecting them to symbols and ideas from the Vedic tradition of the 7 energy centres known as the chakras: Base chakra - Trust; Sacral chakra - Creative Potential; Naval chakra - Courage; Heart chakra - Compassion; Throat Chakra - Truth; Third Eye - Vision; Crown chakra - Creative Spirit.
This workshop is intended to be deeply nourishing, nurturing us through a colour journey as we enter into the Christmas Season.
No art experience necessary,
£95 per person and £20 for art materials
At Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Place, Marylebone, London, NW1
Sue is a BACP accredited Therapeutic Arts Counsellor and Group Facilitator. She has a private practice, designs and runs tailor-made workshops, including for corporate clients, and is a visiting Tutor and Supervisor for students at Tobias School of Art & Therapy.