MOVEMENT

Whether on stage or screen, an actor's body must be relaxed, coordinated, expressive and fully connected to the vocal, emotional, and intellectual truth of his or her character.  The actor must also have an ability to fulfill a director's physical instruction quickly, easily, and professionally, bring offers to the floor or set regarding outer action and a character's physicality, and maintain a healthy, strong, and released body throughout a long play, season, or shoot.

To produce these physically capable and expressive professionals, The Actors' Program has movement classes that aim to:

  •  Help the actor release tension, lose ingrained physical habits and become more flexible

  •  Build the strength and stamina required for the physical demands of performance

  •  Facilitate confident, free, and varied physical expression that relates specifically to dramatic play and performance

  •  Broaden the actor's range to inhabit a variety of character energies, physicality, body language, and type

  •  Produce actors who are sitting inside their bodies with confidence and move organically and instinctively within a scene

  •  Enable the actor to physically interact with other actors

  •  Develop an awareness of stage and screen dynamics and an ability to fulfill physical instructions from directors and/or choreographers

  •  Practice ease-full use of props, furniture and costume on stage and screen

  •  Integrate all physical skills learnt into acting techniques, rehearsals, and performance

  •  Teach healthy physical habits and routines that will carry actors through the demands of a performance season or intense shooting block; this includes nutrition, personal warm-ups for performance, and physical release after performance