Advanced Beginner Play! with Justine Williams
Mondays, 10-1pm
September 18th - November 13th
Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th St, Manhattan
$485
SIGN UP TODAY!
Mondays, 10-1pm
September 18th - November 13th
Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th St, Manhattan
$485
SIGN UP TODAY!
Class Description:
What if acting were just play, and the key to your aliveness and full magnificence on stage was primarily a process of rediscovering and developing your playful impulses with, for and through an audience? In this 8-week acting class, we’ll explore solo exploits, group games and physical training exercises (drawn from the pandemonium arts) to re-awaken your muscles for play, and to establish ways of playing together on stage.
With our playful impulses poised at the ready, we’ll see how characters, stories and theatrical worlds might spring forth through the simple pleasure of our play, and the promise of a good game.
The play principles and storytelling tools established here will ground you in your pursuit of clown, commedia and related forms, and enliven your approach to embodying characters and performative worlds, as well as imagining and creating your own.
What if acting were just play, and the key to your aliveness and full magnificence on stage was primarily a process of rediscovering and developing your playful impulses with, for and through an audience? In this 8-week acting class, we’ll explore solo exploits, group games and physical training exercises (drawn from the pandemonium arts) to re-awaken your muscles for play, and to establish ways of playing together on stage.
With our playful impulses poised at the ready, we’ll see how characters, stories and theatrical worlds might spring forth through the simple pleasure of our play, and the promise of a good game.
The play principles and storytelling tools established here will ground you in your pursuit of clown, commedia and related forms, and enliven your approach to embodying characters and performative worlds, as well as imagining and creating your own.
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Teacher Bio:
Justine Williams is an actor-creator and director who makes performances and films. Her work is informed by 20+ years dedicated to the “pandemonium arts” — training in clown, commedia dell’arte, bouffon, physical comedy, and the playful instigation techniques of Theater of the Oppressed. Justine has been an artist-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Media Lab, and an artist resident/fellow at Queer | Art, The Public Theater, The Orchard Project, Ars Nova, New Georges, Dixon Place, Abrons Arts, NYWIFT and Lighthouse Film Festival. Her work as an actor/director has screened at film festivals such as New Directors/New Films at Lincoln Center/MOMA, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival and Woodstock Film Festival, among others. Justine has been on faculty at the David Geffen School of Drama since 2013, where she teaches acting through play, collaboration and ensemble-devising, and where she facilitates the development of new plays. Based between Brooklyn and Paris, Justine is also a licensed coach and offers private/group coaching for actors/artists on craft and creative life. |
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