Teresa Rojas
Office No. 1602 Tuesdays and Wednesdays 5-7
and by appointment Phone: (305) 237-3262 / 63
THE WORKSHOP
COURSE OUTLINE
This course will focus on doing experiments in improvisation, striving to free the student-actors from routine playing and bringing them close to creativity, attempting to free their individualities from the shackling clichés and theatrical conventions which prevent the actor from feeling him/herself a living person who can live the organic life of the role. Throughout the intensive sessions the student-actors will “learn anew from the beginning,” understanding that acting is an art that demands continual renewal and perfection.
The student-actors will practice the method of physical actions, based on the indivisible unity of the physical and spiritual life of a person and built on the right organization of the physical line of the actor’s life on the stage. The purpose of this method is to penetrate, through the logical and correct fulfillment of physical actions, into those complicated, deep feelings and emotional experiences which the actor must call out of him/herself in order to create the given stage image. Through this method the student-actors learn to identify the essence of the role. One of the greatest actors of the Russian theatre, Davydov, in his conversations with students, always repeated over and over again; “First it is necessary to find the trunk of the party then its main branchesy then the much smaller twigs, later the shoots and leaves, andfinally the veins on the leaves...” The student-actors should learn to understand the unbreakable tie between the inner life of a person and its external expression.
Student-actors will have the opportunity to direct, and/or write their own scenes during this class.
