The screen actor needs to expose their authentic emotions. The camera sees everything and demands absolute truth. This could be a scene from a play they want to write, a short film, a digital sketch, the first episode of a web series, a fleshed out character that is performance ready or whatever work they want to create.Įlia Kazan called acting for the screen “a severe and awesome trial”. Though not mandatory, students have the opportunity to walk away from this class with a finished product. The main objective of the class is to create a safe and liberating space to create your own work. In addition to creating their own work, there is plenty of room for students to expand their creativity in other fields they’d like to explore including directing, producing, writing, camera work, etc. Students will employ writing, acting and improvisation exercises as a group to build out their original ideas with premise, character development, structure and theme. This is a class intended to cater to the immediate needs of the individual artist and hone the skills necessary for creating original characters, stories and ideas.
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ACTING ELECTIVESĬreating Your Own Material is for the artist who is interested in developing original ideas into short and full length plays, sketches, short films or other mediums of storytelling through group improvisation work. The schedule for each term is announced 6 weeks prior to each session start date.
Electives vary each term and in addition to those described below, other classes may be offered. The benefit of the Strasberg acting curriculum is that it allows students to choose courses and create a schedule that reflect their individual needs and goals. Courses are added in a variety of areas to support the evolving demands of the industry and the needs of actors. The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute strives to provide a diverse selection of course offerings to support the development of a well rounded actor. Students use the exercises to create organic behavior, make truthful choices, and learn the way in which improvisation can be used to explore a character’s motivation and deepen one’s understanding of the character and scene. The second part of class focuses on applying the exercises to scene work and learning how the sensory can help fulfill the demands placed upon the actor by a particular script. This part of class focuses on training an actor’s talent.
Sensory work begins with recreating ordinary objects and sensations using the five senses and slowly progresses towards more complex, emotional stimuli.
Sensory exercises are also practiced each class, but become more complicated throughout the course of study. Relaxation is repeated in every class, building over the course of study a keen awareness of one’s body and the ability to relax at will. The work on one’s self employs Lee Strasberg’s relaxation and sensory exercises to train the actor’s concentration and eliminate the actor’s individual habits of mental and physical tension, which limit their ability to express. The technique develops the actor’s ability to respond with real behavior to imaginary stimuli and trains the actor to use their personal experience to fire their imagination.Įach four-hour Method Acting class is divided into two parts: work on one’s self and work on the character. Students are required to take two Method Acting classes per 10- or 12-week term, each with a different teacher. These classes are designed to train the actor in Lee Strasberg’s systematic approach to acting, known throughout the world as The Method. At the core of the Strasberg curriculum are the Method Acting classes.
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