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Acting Technique
Acting Techniques aims to provide students who have substantial or significant performance experience an opportunity to explore, in depth, advanced acting techniques, while further developing interpretive and imaginative skills.
The class aims to build creativity and the ability to inhabit a broad diversity of characters and performance styles.
Course Information
Course Objectives
- Explore and experience moment-to-moment work: freeing yourself from selfconsciousness, responding to impulses, practicing deep listening and accepting what is naturally occurring in the moment
- Understand and implement the responsibilities of the actor in a rehearsal process
- Gain the tools necessary to prepare for a rehearsal process, and the development of a character, through studying the popular Nigerian Actors.
- Learn how to analyze and utilize the text to build a strong character and illuminate the meaning in the play
- Understand and use Actions; make compelling choices that affect your scene partner(s)
- Learn character building techniques and tools
- Nurture a love and respect for the collaborative process that is theater, and for working as an ensemble.
Course Outine
- Acting for Film/TV
- Scene Study
- Actors Directing Actors (AOS)
- Comic Improv
- Improvisation
- Emotional Memory: Making It Personal
- Directed Scenes
- Working With Directors