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NEW DATES NEW DATES NEW DATES

2012!


NEW (AGAIN)
EIGHT WEEK MEISNER FOUNDATION
with Mike Bernardin
January 30th to March 22nd

for the first time since 2010, Mike Bernardin offers this unique opportunity to fully invest in the foundational experience of the Meisner Technique.
Repetition, Activity and knock-at-the-door exercises, and their application to text. All explored and thoroughly tested, during three classes per week, over an intense eight week period.
And not merely learning, but practicing Meisner's revolutionary exercises over a ten week period, you will find emotional and physical freedom, strengthen your responsiveness to your partner, learn to analyse scenes clearly, and commit fully to the life of your character.

And in the application to text, to experience the freedom that comes with living in the moment, moment by moment, without judging yourself as an actor...

This course is for professionals and for actors just starting out, whether the Meisner Technique is familiar to you or totally new.

January 30th - March 22nd    Numbers are limited - four places remaining 

Monday, Tuesday Thursday afternoons, 14.30 - 17.30Uhr

cost 1071 Euro 

register on workshop@actors-space.de


Members of the GVL or FFA  will usually receive support for upto 30% of the cost of the workshop.  Also eligible for the Bildungspraemie... Apply now for 500Euro Gutschein against all Actors-space workshops and courses


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MEISNER YEAR-LONG ACTOR

 TRAINING PROGRAMME:


first group started September 2010
second stream started March 2011 
third stream started October 2011
Register now for the next intake! April 2012
 

Einjähriges Ausbildungsprogramm in Meisner-Technik in Berlin

Actors-Space Berlin, die führende Adresse für Meisner-Technik in Deutschland, erweitert wieder sein Kursangebot: eine drittere intensive einjährige Ausbildung in Sanford Meisners kompletten Unterrichtsprogramm!  

Durch die Auseinandersetzung mit Sanford Meisners einzigartiger Schauspielphilosophie, lernst Du auf eine rein praxisorientierte Weise, ehrlich und präzise zu sein, Dich vollends auf das Verhalten Deines Partners einzulassen und Moment für Moment wahrhaft zu leben.  Zusätzlich zu diesen Kernstunden gibt es regelmäßigen, auf die Prinzipien des Meisner-Unterrichts abgestimmten Unterricht in Stimmerziehung, Bewegungslehre und Kameraschauspiel.

Neben weiteren Unterrichtseinheiten wie Szenenanalyse, Vorsprechtechnik und Rollenstudium, wirst Du im letzten Trimester die Gelegenheit haben, als Mitglied des Actors-Space Ensembles in einer Theaterproduktion mitzuwirken.

Dieses Ein-Jahres-Programm wird Dir tiefes Vertrauen in Dein Handwerk geben und Dich dazu befähigen, in jedem Moment Deines Spiels spielerisch, spontan und authentisch zu sein. 

Dies ist die einzige Meisner-Schauspielausbildung  in Deutschland, die sämtliche Übungen getreu dem New Yorker Vorbild unterrichtet.

Weitere Informationen und Anmeldung unter:

01785 385 063    oder     workshop@actors-space.de


Actors-Space Berlin, home to Germany's leading professional Meisner classes,  embarked two years ago on our first year-long, foundational acting programmes. Due to a huge interest in our offer, we are preparing to open a fourth stream of this training, to begin after Easter 2012. Three semesters of twelve weeks each, and a final intensive course leading to a theatre production at the end of the year. In addition to the core acting classes, you will benefit from regular voice, movement and camera training, with the Actors-Space faculty of top coaches.  This is a unique opportunity for anyone who is serious about the craft of acting, and is looking to train, or re-train, the necessary skills.
 
Meisner's unique approach to acting will teach you, in absolutely practical ways, to relate deeply to your partner's behaviour and respond truthfully, from moment to moment. 
 
You will discover how to work from your character's point of view, improvising freely within the character's circumstances. Through the year you will work repeatedly with scenes and monologues to test and deepen your understanding of the work. Studying text analysis, the creation of character and good audition practice, you will have the chance in the final semester to participate in a full theatre production, as part of the Actors-Space Ensemble.
 
This year will instil deep confidence in your skill as an actor, allowing you to be playful, spontaneous and authentic in every moment of your work. This is the only Meisner actors programme in Europe that offers a full experience of all the exercises as they are taught in New York.
 
Fees: start at 4165Euro for the core Meisner programme, with additional modules payable separately.
Fees may be paid in instalments throughout the year. Sponsorship of your fees might be available from GVL, the FFA or the Arbeitsamt, depending on your status. The Bundesministerium fuer Bildung und Forschung also give a Bildungspraemie which will pay up to 500Euro of these fees, if you qualify.

Call 01785 385 063 or register on workshop@actors-space.de

Look at the Year Long Programme website (in German)

www.meisner-actor-training.de



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Meisner technique & Text work: six week introduction

Weekly class from January 25th to February 29th

Following an introduction to the fundamental exercises in the Meisner technique, this is the next opportunity to develop its application to our work, and specifically to experience its effect on text.

We will examine how to "let go" of the apparent demands of the script, and let the text be influenced organically, honestly by the moment-to- moment events in the scene. In basic scene analysis, discovering which are the most useful questions to ask, and where in our technique lie the most productive answers. 

Above all, we are looking to that experience of living through each moment in authentic, open contact with the other actors. We will do this through a variety of scenes and texts. The work will be taught by Mike in fluent English and bad German.

Wednesday afternoons, from January 25th 2012 to February 29th

14:30 to 17:30Uhr

Cost: 180Euro

Nach der Einführung in die Meisner-Technik ist dies die nächste Gelegenheit für all diejenigen, die bereits über Grundkenntnisse verfügen und diese detaillierter auf die Arbeit mit Texten anwenden möchten.

Dieser Kurs bietet eine konkrete Herangehensweise an Szenenanalyse, die richtigen schauspielerischen Entscheidungen und Techniken, die authentische Darstellungen ermöglichen, Moment für Moment.

Nach einer Wiederholung der Grundlagen beim ersten Treffen, bekommen die Teilnehmer jeweils Szenen, die sie in den Folgewochen bearbeiten. Der Unterricht findet auf Englisch und echt schlecht Deutsch statt.

Zeiten: Mittwochs, Nachmittags, 25.Januar bis 29.Februar 2012 

14:30 bis 17:30 Uhr

Kosten: 180 Euro 

Anmeldung und Infos unter workshop@actors-space.de 
oder 
01785 385 063

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NEW! MOVEMENT FOR ACTORS! 

"Freeing the Actors Body" with Sara George

Ten week course

Mondays 15.00 to 17.00Uhr

January 30th to April 2nd


Suitable for people new to Sara's work, but also developing from her last eight week course, in this workshop she focuses on strengthening, softening, and expanding the instrument. The actor can experience heightened emotion while remaining grounded and free of unnecessary physical tension. We work with three core techniques. The Williamson Technique explores the three stages of the physical process of acting: sensation becomes experience which then translates to behavior, movement and sound.

The Laban Technique offers a wide spectrum of movement vocabulary giving the actor an understanding of tempo, intention, and intensity of movement.

The Mayans Technique works with the seven different energy centers of the body and explores how tapping into them can offer power, joy, openness, and personal and artistic freedom and versatility.

The introduction to and collaboration of these three techniques gives the actor a comprehensive movement vocabulary that supports a fully embodied performance.


Cost: 120Euro for the ten weeks (this is not a drop-in class)

Sara George: at the foundation of her movement training there is Ballet, Salsa, East Coast Swing, Belly Dance, Tai Chi, Hatha, Vinyasa, and Iyengar Yoga. In 2006 Sara was invited to join the Grace and Glory Ensemble, an International theater company dedicated to the dramatization of epic stories such as Gilgamesh and Quetzalcoatal. In 2009, she moved to New York City and completed the two year conservatory program at the William Esper Acting Studio. There she studied the Meisner, Williamson, Mayans, and Laban Techniques. New York credits include the International Actors Theater, a company dedicated to experimental classical work and a vocal technique called Audio Kenetics. Sara also collaborated with Hands Together Theater, a company that works with a resident playwright creating site specific pieces of theater.


MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR CASTING OPPORTUNITY

ANDRE BOLOURI
Tuesday afternoons 14:30 till 17:00Uhr
Starts January 31st
Many actors find castings and auditions intimidating, even humiliating experiences, and learn to dread them. This is wrong! These are wonderful opportunities, invitations to do the very thing we all want to do – to Act! How to make the best of this meeting and feel secure enough to give your best work... Let it be fun! Let it be a Good Thing! André will take you through analysis under time pressure, asking the most productive questions, and learning to recognise the most productive and simple solutions..
Cost 180 Euro

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Elisabeth Baulitz – Aufstellungsarbeit:
Open classes
26.1., 30.1. und 9.2. für offene Klassen: Drop-in-Aufstellungswerkstatt für alle Themen (Rollenaufstellung,Stück-Drehbuchaufstellung, berufsbezogenes Thema) zum Preis von 20€, Zehnerkarte für solche Events 150€, mit und ohne Anmeldung kommen möglich,
von 11.00 bis 13.00/13.30.

Four-week themed group-work:
20.2. ,27.2., 5.3. und 12.3. für den 3. Vier-Wochen-Kurs "Mein Beruf und ich".
Systemische Aufstellungen ermöglichen auf sehr einfache Art und Weise den Zugang zu persönlichen Kraftquellen für das eigene – in diesem Fall das berufliche - System. Im Mittelpunkt dieses Kurses stehen Fragen wie: Was brauche ich persönlich als Ressource für das Neue Jahr? Was hilft mir, um in meinen Beruf einzusteigen bzw. einen neuen Zugang zu finden? Was für Hindernisse stellen sich mir wiederholt in den Weg? Welche Bilder habe ich von mir selbst? Welche Bilder helfen mir, welche nicht? Was kann ich tun bzgl. Konflikten mit Kollegen, der Agentur, meiner Rolle... Jede/r Schauspieler/in kann an einem persönlichen Thema zum Beruf arbeiten.
55€

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Wolfgang Wimmer

“Who do you meet when I walk through the door?"
February 18th and 19th
Weekend Workshop on discovering (and working with your Myth/Personality/Type)


A vague or inaccurate view of yourself can lead to a great deal of confusion in your work. We are not interested in limiting an actor to “type casting”. But understanding which qualities which are most forwardly present in your personal energy can be the key to a happier working experience, from head-shot photos, through castings and agent meetings, all the way through to the job itself.
Wolfgang will guide you through various exercises, to explore, discover and review what image belongs uniquely to you, enabling you to be fully present in your work, instead of trying to be “whatever they want me to be”...
Cost: 160 Euro
Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th February, times upon application


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Réka Kincses and Mike Bernardin – creating a film project from scratch, using Aufstellung principles
MEISNER TECHNIQUE meets AUFSTELLUNGSARBEIT – Ein Filmprojekt für Schauspieler
Nach einem bereist erfolgreichen Durchlauf im September 2011 werden wir das Experiment im Februar 2012 widerholen. Ein Drehbuchautor wird uns begleiten, so, dass wir zu drehen bereits geschrieben Szenen haben werden.

Jeder Schauspieler, besonders die von uns, die mit der Arbeit von Sanford Meisner vertraut sind, weiß um den unermesslichen Wert des Vertrauens in die eigenen Instinkte. Der Intellekt wird erst im zweiten Schritt benutzt.

Systemische Aufstellung, so wie sie von Réka Kincses praktiziert wird, hat sich als extrem hilfreich erwiesen, um im Probenprozeß & bei der Drehbuchentwicklung einen direkten& intuitiven Zugang zum Text zu finden. Durch diese Methode wird uns das Unbewusste als Quelle der Kreativität unmittelbar zugänglich.

Grundthemen der Figuren können klar erkannt werden aber auch ihre Möglichkeit der Entwicklung und Veränderung.

Angewendet auf Theater- und Filmregie ermöglicht die Aufstellungsarbeit eine anti-intintellektuelle Herangehensweise: das unbewusste Wissen des ganzen Ensembles wird für den Regisseur sichtbar. Es ist ein perfektes Modell für die Beziehung, die zwischen Regie und Schauspielern herrschen sollte.

Das Ziel dieses Workshops ist es die Schauspieler als Hauptquelle in die Entstehung einer Story einzubinden. Die Schauspieler ins Zentrum des kreativen Prozesses zu stellen ist eines der Hauptanliegen des Actors Space. Diese Herangehensweise setzen wir hier in die Tat um. Wir werden zusammen mit den Schauspielern aus dem Nichts ein Netz von Figuren und Beziehungen zu entwickeln.

Mit Hilfe der bekannten Übungen aus der Meisner Arbeit wird Mike die Teilnehmer auf einander einstimmen und sie für ihr kreatives Zentrum öffnen, damit sie jederzeit in Rékas Aufstellungsarbeit einsteigen können.

Der gesamte Prozess wird mit der Kamera begleitet. Die tägliche Evolution des Plots bedarf eines intensiven Prozesses von Fragen, Improvisation und Gesprächen. Wir entwickeln Geschichtsstränge, thematische Verbindungen und werden dann Szenen schreiben, die aus dem gemeinsamen Prozess entstehen.

So trifft die emotionale und geistige Offenheit, wie wir sie aus der Meisnerarbeit kennen auf ein System von kreativer Stoffentwicklung und Regieführung, die diese Qualitäten fordert.

In den letzten beiden Tagen werden diese Szenen dann unter szenisch gedreht. Das gedrehte Material wird den Schauspielern am Ende zur Verfügung gestellt. Auch wenn es kein Demoband Workshop ist, kann das entstandene Material natürlich für die Showreels genutzt werden.

Alle Teilnehmer an diesem bahnbrechenden Workshop müssen sich für die vollen 10 tage verpflichten. Kurze Abwesenheit ist nur im Ausnahmefall & nach Absprache möglich.

Zeiten: 13.- 26.02 2012/ 10-16h Kosten: € 585 / Zuschauer € 300.

           

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ONGOING CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS...
     




New weekly Drop-in Class - with Mike Bernardin
Starting Monday January 23rd - evenings from 18:30Uhr
A chance to work in more detail. This class functions on the same drop-in 10er Karte system as the other open classes (see below), but is ONLY OPEN to actors who are bringing something on which they wish to work: a scene, a casting monologue, an exercise, emotional preparation...
The groups will tend to be smaller, the work more intensive and more varied. No free first session for this class.


DROP-IN CLASSES
MONDAY EVENINGS 18.30 - 21.00Uhr
(new class, see above)
TUESDAY MORNINGS 10.30 - 13.30Uhr and
THURSDAY EVENINGS 18.00 - 21.00Uhr
every week.

First visit is free, whether you participate or just watch (except for the new class). After that, participation in the drop-in classes is with a ten-class card, which costs  215Euros or 25Euro for one-off payments.

The 10class card is valid for both Drop-in classes. There is no expiry limit on the card so you remain free to drop-in as often or as little as you are able. If you are unsure if you want to make this commitment, please feel free to come and watch a few classes before deciding. There is no charge for observing the work.

The drop-in classes are an open space to work on any aspect of your acting - practising Meisner's approach to scene work, emotional preparation, auditions and just solid technique, which makes so much difference to the actor's readiness for work. The Technique develops your availability and openness, and trains you to stay out of your own head, by focusing your attention instead on your partner.

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YOGA FOR ACTORS:
with Erinbell Fanore:
Every TUESDAY and THURSDAY 09.30 till 10.30Uhr

Erinbell offers all actors a 60minute Yoga class on these two mornings. These regular sessions, tailored specifically for actors, are a perfect start to the day, and a great support to you as you participate in other classes at the Actors Space.

Cost for participation is 10 Euro per class or
for a flat fee of 25Euros you can come to one weekly class, or
for 35Euros monthly you can come to both weekly classes 

For more details or to enroll please call 01577 51 92 375

You can find out more about Erinbell on her own web page
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THE ACTORS-SPACE COMMUNITY:
DOING IT FOR YOURSELVES - THE GUERILLA GROUPS

We are also still encouraging you to be part of the Guerilla Technique Group, on Thursday mornings, from 10.30am  and Tuesday afternoons from 14.30

This is a really important part of the Actors-Space. No teacher. Just you, using the space, and meeting each other to practice and sharpen the tools you have learned in class. Repetition, Activities, Knocks, Emotional Preparation, Text...
Cost per session, 2Euro in the coffee pot...  Come and make the Technique YOURS.

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AMERICAN ACCENT, AMERICAN CHARACTER:
with KAREN CIFARELLI:

every WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
at 17:00Uhr

Karen Cifarelli leads a regular, group for solid, personally tailored coaching on your american accent. 

Perhaps your spoken English is excellent, but you lack confidence that it will serve you at castings. Working steadily over a period with you, Karen will give the specific feedback and tools to strengthen your american accent. 

More than that, you will find that your accent is not simply a bolt-on accessory: working with Karen you will discover how your accent leads you into a specific, organic, fully present American Character.

An affordable, practical, weekly session to make you confident and ready for International Castings.

Cost: 15€ per class. 48€ for four classes. Wednesday afternoons 17.00Uhr

Numbers are limited to 8 maximum - this is not a drop-in class, but you can reserve your place in advance by email on accent class booking
or by calling 01637 299941

Karen Cifarelli trained with renouned American acting coach Eric Morris at the New American Theater in Los Angeles. She has worked for Walt Disney Co., the Jacobson Company and American Zoetrope as casting consultant and in development. Besides giving acting and American accent coaching in Germany, she works as casting consultant, producer and actress. She is the owner of Cifarelli Talent Consulting in Berlin. Some projects she has worked on include: Underdogs, SOKO Leipzig, Running Scared, Tamanama, Must Love Death, and award winning Köy.

Each Wednesday after the Accent Class, Karen runs her regular actor sessions inspired by her training with the legendary Eric Morris


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ACTOR'S VOICE:
Freie Stimme with ANNETTE GOERES:
TUESDAY AFTERNOONS - AUFBAUKURS
new dates to be announced

Annette Goeres, highly regarded over 20years for her approach to vocal health and development, offers this regular vocal workshop for professional actors in training. This is a unique offer only to be found  at the Actors-Space Berlin


The Workshop is for two hours each week. 

- Learn how to bring more emotional life to your work through your voice.

- Discover and harness your vocal power.

- Explore and learn how to stay in a state of relaxed readiness.

- Learn new tools to encourage you to workout regularly.

The workshop is ongoing and developmental, with a maximum group of 12 actors. The aim is to diagnose the actor's needs, address the reasons for this and organically work WITH the body's natural mechanisms to unblock and release your true voice. Our objective, in voice, as in our acting, is a freeing of the total body and a consequent freeing of the actor's impulse.

Cost for participation is 165 Euro for the eight weeks. Actors-Space "members" receive a discount of 35Euro. This is not a drop-in class.


Call 01785 385 063 or register directly on voice classes

Annette Goeres is a teacher for voice, speech and presentation at the Universität der Künste Berlin at the College of Arts and Music, the College of Music "Hans Eisler" as well as the Folkwang Hochschule Essen. For more than 20 years she has worked as a speech therapist and educator for professional moderators, actors and singers both individually and in groups. Some projects she has worked on are: Im Winter ein Jahr, Coaching mit Karoline Herfurth, Krabat, Sommer 04, Der rote Kakadu, and Napola to name a few.


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ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCENE WORKSHOP:
Six-day Intensive,
Next Dates to be Announced

It's becoming more and more common to be offered castings for international co-productions - do you go to them fearful that you will not pass the "Good English" test? Or perhaps you just want to chance to work in English for the sheer enjoyment of it...

This intensive six-day workshop will give you the chance to work with a variety of top american and english authors' texts: Mamet, Williams, Hare, Penhall, Stevenson, Pinter or even Shakespeare; exploring their use of language, their rhythm, their style, their demands, you will be encouraged to deepen your trust of your own english language. In addition, where appropriate, you will strengthen your British or American accent too, with personal input from both Karen Cifarelli and Mike Bernardin.

Total working time, 30 hours Monday to Saturday 10.00 till 16.00Uhr

Cost for this intensive Workshop: 595Euro (includes 19% taxes)

Financial Support available to members of GVL and FFA

Payment by Instalment also possible:

Call Mike Bernardin: 01577 35 22 897 or  register by email now



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"KEEPING YOUR FREEDOM WITHIN THE FRAME"

PRACTICAL CAMERA WORKSHOP,
with Mike Bernardin AND Wolfgang Wimmer:

Weekend Intensive, DATES TO BE CONFIRMED
Book now to reserve a place on this popular course

The biggest challenge facing actors sometimes comes  AFTER they have begun to taste the creative freedom that  the Meisner Technique offers. In our class work we allow ourselves total liberty both  to investigate and free ourselves from the perceived demands of the scene. But in the workplace the pressure to conform and deliver someone else's vision easily reasserts itself.  Especially when we know that the camera can SEE everything...

What does it mean to act for the camera? What is my job actually? How can I allow the camera to grant me MORE freedom, rather than stealing my creativity away? 

How do we sustain our total inner freedom in the face of these questions? Work with Mike and Wolfgang to begin to untangle the trick of truthful acting for film.

Friday 18.00 - 20.30Uhr, Saturday & Sunday 10.30 - 18.30Uhr
Cost for this Weekend Intensive: 297,50Euro (includes 19% taxes)
MAXIMUM PARTICIPANTS 10 ACTORS

Financial Support available to members of GVL and FFA

Payment by Instalment also possible:

Call: 01785 385 063 or  register by email now



Wolfgang Wimmer looks back over an international, 40-year career, with success in almost every

area of the Film Industry. To his knowledge and experience as Actor, Director, Writer, Cameraman,
Producer and Casting-Director, he added the role of coach, advisor and PR expert for high profile
actors and for international production companies. His vision is to help Actors to work as selfreliant,
professional partners on set, so that your full talent unfolds and becomes available to you
and at your disposal at all times. 




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NEW DATES:

"FILM FOR ACTORS"

From Story concept to Shooting day...
Eight week course starts October 14th
FULL FULL FULL - look for January dates..

What you know about the whole process of making a film deeply affects how you view your own part within it. This fantastically complex set of interlocking responsibilities demands actors who know how to bring what is actually necessary to their work, and who do not waste their energies (and the crew's time) on unnecessary anxieties or ineffective acting choices...

Actors need to fall in love with film, and the best way to do that is to get to know our fellow film-makers. Each area of film-making creates exciting opportunities for actors, if we understand them properly and act accordingly. We will walk for these eight sessions together in the shoes of each practitioner, looking for the very practical benefit this knowledge has for our acting. The objective is to create a film project from scratch, seeing it through its entire process, and finishing the course by filming at least two pages of the resulting script(s)...

1. The story. From idea to treatment.
2. The script. From treatment to dialogue.
3. What is "dramaturgy" and what do we need to know about it?
4. "Breaking Down" the characters
5. We cast the film
6. We analyse and set the preparation
7. We work on the characters
8. We form the "team" - We start shooting

Each session will feature Wolfgang's extensive experience in all of the departments of filmmaking, and will include practical exercises to reinforce the session's point. All skills
pertaining to acting for camera will be touched upon, but with particular focus on WHY
these things work the way they do.

FRIDAY AFTERNOONS from 2.00pm - The class will last upto at least 4 hours.
Starts Friday October 14th till  December 16th (includes a two weeks break)

Participants from outside the Actors-Space pay 260Euro for the full eight weeks.
Actors-Space members pay a reduced rate of 225Euro
Year-Long Students get a further reduced rate.

call 01785 385 063 or register on  workshop@actors-space.de

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"SCENE ANALYSIS" with Wolfgang Wimmer

Breaking down the shooting script into playable elements:

look for Spring Dates

The script you have been offered, whether for a casting or for a shooting engagement,  requires a careful attention to detail and the willingness to prepare accordingly...
Film scripts especially need a careful rigour, since so much more space is given to the visual information rather than to the spoken word, and actors need to be ready to supply the behaviour which will tell the story truthfully. Come ready to learn which questions are the most productive to ask, and how to recognise when you have real answers...

Participants from outside the Actors-Space pay 120Euro for the four sessions.
Actors-Space members pay a reduced rate of 95Euro
Year-Long Students get a further reduced rate.

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NEW! MOVEMENT FOR ACTORS! 

"Freeing the Actors Body" with Sara George

Ten week course

Mondays 15.00 to 17.00Uhr

January to March


Suitable for people new to Sara's work, but also developing from her last eight week course, in this workshop she focuses on strengthening, softening, and expanding the instrument. The actor can experience heightened emotion while remaining grounded and free of unnecessary physical tension. We work with three core techniques. The Williamson Technique explores the three stages of the physical process of acting: sensation becomes experience which then translates to behavior, movement and sound.

The Laban Technique offers a wide spectrum of movement vocabulary giving the actor an understanding of tempo, intention, and intensity of movement.

The Mayans Technique works with the seven different energy centers of the body and explores how tapping into them can offer power, joy, openness, and personal and artistic freedom and versatility.

The introduction to and collaboration of these three techniques gives the actor a comprehensive movement vocabulary that supports a fully embodied performance.


Cost: 120Euro for the ten weeks (this is not a drop-in class)

Sara George: at the foundation of her movement training there is Ballet, Salsa, East Coast Swing, Belly Dance, Tai Chi, Hatha, Vinyasa, and Iyengar Yoga. In 2006 Sara was invited to join the Grace and Glory Ensemble, an International theater company dedicated to the dramatization of epic stories such as Gilgamesh and Quetzalcoatal. In 2009, she moved to New York City and completed the two year conservatory program at the William Esper Acting Studio. There she studied the Meisner, Williamson, Mayans, and Laban Techniques. New York credits include the International Actors Theater, a company dedicated to experimental classical work and a vocal technique called Audio Kenetics. Sara also collaborated with Hands Together Theater, a company that works with a resident playwright creating site specific pieces of theater.


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Further courses will be proposed at regular intervals, and minimum previous study requirements may be stipulated, depending on the course content. These include longer term closed group training courses, with participation by invitation only. 

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