Russian Études (or, Scheduled F*ck Around Time)
with Annelise Lawson
Drop In: 6:30-9:30 pm*
Thursday, September 7th & Tuesday, October 24th
*All Drop-In Classes require Pre-Registration.
$30
OR TAKE THE WHOLE ENCHILADA! Tuesdays, 6.30-9.30
November 28th - December 19th
Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th St, Manhattan
$295
SIGN UP TODAY!
with Annelise Lawson
Drop In: 6:30-9:30 pm*
Thursday, September 7th & Tuesday, October 24th
*All Drop-In Classes require Pre-Registration.
$30
OR TAKE THE WHOLE ENCHILADA! Tuesdays, 6.30-9.30
November 28th - December 19th
Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th St, Manhattan
$295
SIGN UP TODAY!
Class Description:
Ever started rehearsal and felt stuck by how something "should" look? Get rid of that icky sense of "ought" and investigate the profound beauty of the f*ck around! Rediscover your imagination and let it guide you. Using this rehearsal tool developed from Stanislavski’s final experiments, students will explore scenes through the framework of their own impulses and artistic curiosities. We'll begin by rebuilding our relationship to imaginative play through a series of exploratory improvisations - or études. We'll then turn these exercises loose on text - investigating the unanswered questions through spontaneous play. Pull even the most intimidating texts off their pedestals and make them your own. F*ck around and find out!
Ever started rehearsal and felt stuck by how something "should" look? Get rid of that icky sense of "ought" and investigate the profound beauty of the f*ck around! Rediscover your imagination and let it guide you. Using this rehearsal tool developed from Stanislavski’s final experiments, students will explore scenes through the framework of their own impulses and artistic curiosities. We'll begin by rebuilding our relationship to imaginative play through a series of exploratory improvisations - or études. We'll then turn these exercises loose on text - investigating the unanswered questions through spontaneous play. Pull even the most intimidating texts off their pedestals and make them your own. F*ck around and find out!
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Teacher Bio:
Annelise Lawson (Co-Founder and Director of Administration and Enrollment) is an actress and director. After first studying with Christopher Bayes at the Yale School of Drama, she’s since collaborated with him both in the rehearsal room and out – training with him as a teacher’s apprentice and going on to become a founding member of The Pandemonium Studio. As a teacher, Annelise’s work focuses on developing technique and style through students’ personal sense of fun. Her areas of expertise include Clown, Commedia dell’arte, and the Russian Étude method – an improvisatorial rehearsal tool designed unleash an actor’s imagination into the world of the text. Outside of The Pandemonium Studio, Annelise teaches Chekhov and Shakespeare at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and the New School for Drama. Annelise has previously taught at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts (New Studio), Shakespeare Academy at Stratford, the Stella Adler Conservatory, and the international LungA Arts Festival in Iceland. As an actress and maker of collaborative theater, her recent credits include How to Live on Earth (Director, Yale), Masha in Three Sisters (Two River Theater), Anna in Babes in the Woods (world premier, Signature Theater), Edmund in MONUMENT (HERE Arts Center; LungA Arts Festival), Masha in Dmitry Krymov’s √3 Sisters (International Festival of Arts & Ideas). Other credits include Arcadia (Yale Repertory Theatre) The Oresteia, Our Lady of 121st Street, ...And Sometimes Why?, The Troublesome Reign of King John, The Tempest, In Arabia We’d All Be Kings, (Yale School of Drama); Middletown (Yale Summer Cabaret); The Secretaries, (Yale Cabaret), and The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe (First Folio) She holds an MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama, and certificates in Acting from American Conservatory Theater, the British American Drama Academy, iO Chicago, and the Moscow Art Theater. |
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