MEISNER YEAR-LONG ACTOR TRAINING PROGRAMME: Starts Sept
20th
Einjähriges Ausbildungsprogramm
in Meisner-Technik in Berlin
Actors-Space Berlin, die
führende Adresse für Meisner-Technik in Deutschland, erweitert sein Kursangebot:
eine intensive
einjährige Ausbildung in Sanford Meisners kompletten
Unterrichtsprogramm! Beginn dieser Ausbildung ist der 20. September
2010.
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.
The
Actors-Space Berlin, home to Germany's leading professional Meisner
classes, is extending its programme to a year-long, foundational
acting training. Three semesters of twelve weeks each, and a summer
intensive course leading to a final theatre production. 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.
André
Bolouri moved to New York from California in 2008 to study the Meisner
Technique with William Esper at his studio. William Esper is considered
the leading teacher
of the Meisner technique in the US. He not only studied with Sanford
Meisner but was also appointed by him to teach at the Neighborhood
Playhouse.
Andre
Bolouri translated W. Esper´s book “The Actor´s Art
and Craft” into German which should be published in 2010.
Since
2000 Andre has worked regularly with an international theatre ensemble
– the ´Grace and Glory Ensemble´ including actors
from the National Theatre London, Russia, Israel,
Italy, France and the U.S. They focused on classical theatre, and he
directed the company at its base in California for three years.
His
work there as an actor included Romeo, Hamlet, Gilgamesh, Pinocchio,
and he directed The Tempest, Gilgamesh, Quetzalcoatl and Twelfth Night,
among others. He also trained
the company as well as young aspiring actors in the Chekhov technique,
improvisation, rhetoric, voice and speech and movement.
Between
1998 and 2005 Andre worked and studied with Yoshi Oida as assistant
director in Hamburg at the Thalia Theater, as well as in Paris.
He
trained with Frieder Kranz for three years in the Chekhov technique and
performed with his Berlin Ensemble ´the studio´ –
based on this technique, in ´Rashomon´. For
two years he experienced the advantages and disadvantages of being
employed by a Stadttheater, in this case Bremerhaven, where he took the
opportunity to start teaching and co-founded the ´Theater
Jugendclub´, training and
directing it for two years. He performed a solo of “Der Ansager
einer Stripteasenummer gibt nicht auf”, touring Germany. He
played Paul in ´Fireface´at the former Kleist-Theater
Frankfurt that got invited to Theater
festivals in Germany and Europe. In 2004 he worked as assistant
director to Ismael Ivo at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Other
Workshop experiences include Keith Johnstone (Improvisation, Berlin),
Kristian Lupa (Stanislawski, Krakow), Zygmond Molik (Grotowski,
Berlin), Per Brahe (Masks, New York).
Andre's original training was between 1995 and 1998 when studied at the Fritz Kirschhoff School of Acting.
He continues to work for TV, commercials, movies and theatres as an actor.
27.09.2010 till 03.12.2010 NOW OPEN FOR BOOKING
For actors and newcomers who are unable to commit to the year-long programme
"Acting is the ability to live truthfully under imaginary circumstances"
Sanford Meisner
This is the only opportunity to join Mike Bernardin's acclaimed Intensive Meisner Foundation Course before this year - see what other actors have said!
No workshop or drop-in class, this is a genuine training - in
ten weeks of intensive study, Meisner's revolutionary approach has
the power to transform the totality of your acting forever.
During these ten weeks we will study three times a week together,and
practice Meisner's foundational work. You will develop your connection
with your fellow actor, and your emotional openness and spontaneity.
You will learn how to abandon your self-consciousness and stiffness,
and worry less how you appear to audience or colleagues.
You will act authentically, working deeply from
your character's point of view, improvising freely, and working moment
to moment. And as we introduce script work, we will study
Meisner's unique approach to text analysis, and yet remain focused on
how to stay powerfully simple and truthfully present in the scene.
Mike Bernardin will be the principal teacher for all sessions, and the work will be in English and German.
Numbers
on the course are strictly limited. This fixed group will meet and
study at our spacious Studio in Kreuzberg. Each class will be three
hours, generally between 10.00 and 13.00Uhr, or between 14.00 and
17.00Uhr.
To
reserve a place, or if you have any other queries about the course,
please email us and we will try to answer your questions. This course
is suitable for experienced professionals or actors just starting out.
Final acceptance on the course is by interview and invitation only.
This is a very practical opportunity to gain a real grasp of this approach, and set your acting on a totally new path.... The
course costs 1071 Euro (inclusive of 19% tax).
Payment by instalments is
possible.
You can pay by any means except credit cards.
IMPORTANT! THERE IS ABILDUNGSPRÄMIEAVAILABLEFROM THEBUNDESMINISTERE für BILDUNG und FORSCHUNG, WHICH WE ARE TOLD WILL PAY UPTO HALF OF THE COST OF THIS WORKSHOP, AS LONG AS YOU ARE NOT REGISTERED AS "ARBEITSLOS". Please call 01577 35 22 897 to receive details...
Sponsorship of
your fees is also available from GVL, the FFA or the Arbeitsamt,
depending on your status.
PRACTICAL CAMERA WORKSHOP,
with Mike Bernardin AND Wolfgang Wimmer:
Weekend Intensive,October 8th, 9th and 10th
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? How can I allow the camera to grant
me MORE freedom, rather than stealing my creativity away? What do I do
about the close up? And can a director who tells me what to do in a
scene really be a collaborator?
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 8th October, 18.30 - 21.00Uhr, Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th, 10.30 - 20.00Uhr
Cost for this Weekend Intensive: 297,50Euro (includes 19% taxes)
MAXIMUM PARTICIPANTS 10 ACTORS
Financial Support available to members of GVL and FFA
Actors-Space Berlin:
ONGOING CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS...
DROP-IN CLASSES - WEDNESDAY EVENINGS.
18.00Uhr to 21.00Uhr, every week.
at THE ACTORS-SPACE, Eingang C, Room 110, (1. OG), Aqua Carré, Lobeck Strasse 35, 10969, Berlin
Nearest station Moritzplatz (U8) and Prinzenstrasse (U1)
From this time
onwards, participation in the drop-in classes is ONLY possible with a
ten-class card, which now will cost only 215 Euros (incl. 19%tax), instead of 28Euro per
session.
There
is no expiry limit on the ten class 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.
For any actor facing the challenge of an emotional scene, it's good to
have effective tools, and to know oneself well enough to be able
to rely on those tools under pressure. Most importantly we need to be
able to open ourselves up to that vein of experience in us which is
emotionally attuned to the scene.
This workshop offers some very practical exercises
that can unlock the imagination and give you almost unlimited access to your
emotional life.
There are two Parts to the Workshop:
Part One is the Introduction to Emotional
Preparation. We will work together in a mutually supportive environment,
exploring the blockages and challenges within ourselves, and finding different
routes past those blockages. We will undertake to find deep emotional resources
in ourselves, so that you feel equipped when it matters, and not
lost.
Part Two is the application of these
tools and exercises to texts. We mostly will work on "Monologues", and
especially those taken from Edgar Lee Masters' book "Spoon River Anthology".
This course is open to anyone who has already done Emotional Preparation
work.
It's very intense work, and very rewarding for any
actor, especially if you are interested in pursuing a fuller understanding of
the Meisner Technique.
INTRODUCTION TO EMOTIONAL PREPARATION:
NEXT DATES - MAY, TO BE ANNOUNCED
Cost 220Euro (plus 19% tax) = 261,80 Euro insgesamt
EMOTIONAL PREPARATION IN TEXT WORK:
NEXT DATES - MAY, TO BE ANNOUNCED
Cost 250Euro (plus 19% tax) = 297,50 Euro insgesamt
Participants booking both courses: 420Euro (plus 19% tax) = 500Euro total
Throughout the Spring we will meet weekly to work on
scenes and strengthen our technique to support that work. We will
develop our skills in analysing the text, making
strong actor's choices, and working improvisationally towards deeply
felt, truthful performances. There will be three groups, each with a
fixed number of participants. The places are offered on a
first-come,
first-serve basis.
Tuesday mornings, 10.00 till 13.00Uhr
(FULL)
Tuesday evenings, 18.00 till 21.00Uhr (FULL)
Wednesday afternoons, 14.00 till 17.00Uhr (FULL)
Thursday mornings, 10.00 till 13.00Uhr (FULL)
The Cost is 168Euro (plus 19% tax) = 200 Euros for ten classes.
PLEASE NOTE: This is only for actors who have already taken an
introduction to text. See above for details of the introduction
class, and the opportunity to join one of the four groups..
AMERICAN ACCENT, AMERICAN CHARACTER:
with KAREN CIFARELLI:
every TUESDAY AFTERNOON at 14.00 to 15.30Uhr
AND
every Thursday EVENING at 18.00 to 19.00Uhr
Karen Cifarelli leads a regular, open, drop-in 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 perfect 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. Numbers are limited to 8 maximum - this is a drop-in class, but you
can reserve your place in advance by email on accent class booking
or by calling 01577 35 22 897
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.
ACTOR'S TOTAL VOICE WORKOUT:
with ANNETTE GOERES:
Every TUESDAY AFTERNOON: 15.30 to 17.30Uhr
Actors-Space
is delighted to host Annette Goeres:- highly regarded for her approach
to vocal health and development, leads this regular vocal workshop
for professional actors.
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 twelve
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.
Workshops
have no more then 12 participants, who should be professional actors,
or have completed their training at a university,
theater, or acting school
Cost
for participation is 15 Euro per class. This is a drop-in class,but
with a maximum of twelve spaces. You can check to reserve a space on voice class bookingor call 01577 35 22 897
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.
YOGA FOR ACTORS:
with Erinbell Fanore:
Every MONDAY 10.00 till 10.45Uhr
Erinbell offers all actors a 45minute Yoga class on Monday mornings. This regular morning session, tailored specifically for
actors, is a perfect start to the week, and a great preparation if you
are taking part in the day's classes at the Actors Space. Cost for participation is 8 Euro per class
For more details or to enroll please call 01577 35 22 897
You can find out more about Erinbell on her own web page
INTRODUCTION TO THE MEISNER TECHNIQUE:
Berlin Three day Intensive, dates to be announced
"What happens to you doesn't depend on you, it depends on the other fellow" Sanford Meisner
Nach Meisner bedeutet Schauspielen wahrhaftiges Verhalten in
imaginären Umständen. Der wichtigste Schlüssel, um
dieses Ziel zu erreichen, ist die Verlagerung der Aufmerksamkeit
nach außen, und vor allem auf den Partner, um spontan, instinktiv
und wahrhaftig von Moment zu Moment reagieren zu lernen.
Dieser intensive Wochenendkurs bietet die Chance, diese
revolutionäre Schauspielmethode zu erforschen, seine
grundsätzlichen Prinzipien zu klären und die Erfahrung des
direkten praktischen Nutzens für das eigene Spiel zu machen.
Die Szene und der Charakter entwickeln sich aus dem Wechselspiel der
Reaktionen und dem erlernten Vermögen, wirklich im Moment zu
sein.
"The
text is a boat, and sits on the river. So you have to have the river,
the emotional life, FIRST, otherwise the boat won't go anywhere."
Ort: Actors Space, Lobeckstraße 35, 10969 Berlin – Kreuzberg.
Kosten: 297,50,-Euro (inkl. 19% Steuer ).
Antrag auf Kostenerstattung bei der GVL oder vergleichbaren Institutionen
ist im Vorfeld möglich.
Repetition,
Independent Activity,
Knock at the Door,
These are the exercises that lay the foundations for Sanford Meisner's unique
approach to Actor Training. This intensive weekend workshop gives you
the chance to explore his revolutionary technique, clarify the
fundamental principles and experience the practical benefits for your
acting....
Kristian Wanzl is a regular partner in the Actors-Space program, a
popular teacher of Chekhov Technique, who has also studied extensively
with Mike to teach the Meisner Technique. This class will be
taught in German
15 Hours total workshop time. Friday, 18.00 to 21.00Uhr, then Saturday and Sunday, 10.00 to 17.00Uhr. Numbers strictly limited
Cost: 297,50 Euro (early booking brings a 30Euro discount) Members of the GVL or FFA will usually receive support for upto 30% of the cost of the workshop.
The work outlined in this introductory class also opens up all the
developmental courses offered at the Actors Space Berlin. register by email now
ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCENE WORKSHOP:
Six-day Intensive,
Berlin, April 19th to 24th
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
FIVE WEEK SUMMER INTENSIVE MEISNER PROGRAMME 16.08.2010 till 17.09.2010
"Acting is the abiliy to live truthfully under imaginary circumstances"
This
five week intensive course will help you to dig a solid foundation into
your acting, so that you emerge with a clear sense of truth and
openness. The core acting module will be three times a week of Meisner
Technique, practicing the foundational values of all good
acting; listening, responding spontaneously to your partner, living
truthfully, moment by moment.
"What you do doesn't depend on you, it depends on what the other actor does to you"
We will work through all Meisner's fundamental
exercises, digging their lessons into our acting, and exploring their
application to text work.
In addition, there will be voice, movement and camera
workshops which will complement the acting module. The programme will therefore
include work on most weekdays during the five weeks, and at least
one weekend.
Maximum number of participants for the programme is
twelve actors. This course is open to professional actors and newcomers, and
will be taught throughout in English and German.
The cost for the full programme will be 950Euro,
including tax. There is a discount available for early
payment, but payment by instalments is also possible, by
arrangement.
It will be possible to opt out of certain modules and so
reduce the total fee, but we recommend a full participation as offering best
value.
Let us know as soon as possible
that you wish to confirm your place on the programme, and we will then discuss
details in the next weeks.
Sponsorship of
your fees might be available from GVL, the FFA or the Arbeitsamt,
depending on your status.
IMPORTANT! THERE IS ABILDUNGSPRÄMIEAVAILABLEFROM THEBUNDESMINISTERE für BILDUNG und FORSCHUNG, WHICH WILL PAY UPTO HALF OF THE COST OF THIS WORKSHOP, AS LONG AS YOU ARE NOT REGISTERED AS "ARBEITSLOS".
Participants in the course must apply for the Prämie themselves, and agree to the self assessment criteria...
I hope you can join us!
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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.
