Acting for Teens

This is an acting class that will give the student the opportunity to expand their understanding of different acting techniques. This is a student-led class! The student could be a beginning actor or an advanced. I will be sure to build the curriculum around them. As an educator, I aim to create a classroom environment that inspires students to be brave and make choices. I teach multiple techniques such as Chekhov, Meisner, and Hagen. In each class, there will be a short reading assigned. This will be uploaded to Outschool before every class. This reading will focus on different concepts that the lesson will be built on. We will start our lesson with some sort of engaging exercise that practices this new concept. In the second half of the class, the students will read a play. We will try to read through one scene per class. Plays that this class will read are, Little Women, Midsummer Night's Dream, Our Town, and many others! The schedule is subject to change to reflect the students who are enrolled but a tentative schedule is as followed:

Week ofJuly 5th: Introduction to Uta Hagen: The basic object exercise: 
Students will demonstrate their understanding of Uta Hagen’s The Basic Object Exercises exercise by rehearsing and performing a 2-minute slice of their life.

Week of July 12th: Introduction to Michael Chekhov: Psycho-Physical
Triangle flow: Students will learn to demonstrate abstract emotions through movement and ensemble. 

Week of July 19th: Introduction to Meisner: Finding Authenticity
Word repetition exercise: Students will repeat a simple observation back and forth with a partner in hopes to build authenticity and spontaneity. 

Week July 26th: Introduction to Stanislavsky: Communication 
Sending and receiving rays: One student is the sender and the other the receiver. The sender will lead in various movements while the receiver follows in hopes to build an ensemble.