Take your acting deeper. Access “presence” and “connection.”
Listen to the first 1.09 minutes of this TED talk with Patsy Rodenburg. (She teaches at the Michael Howard Studios in NY and has written many books)
She talks about PRESENCE -Without this as an actor, be it for film or stage, your performance is nothing.
https://www.ted.com/talks/patsy_rodenburg_why_i_do_theater
THE PHYSICS OF ACTING
Led by Tony Sears!
A performance happens when actors exchange energy. Whether it’s for film or stage, if that basic piece of Physics doesn’t happen, no audience in the world will respond. Tired of watching people “act” at each other? This class examines the possibilities of honest performances, carefully crafted with subtextual choices. Learn how to create your own performance, without help from anyone, and put your unique stamp on the roles you create. Weekly Scene Study outlines how an actor can prepare a role, and provides the tools to build a performance for the stage or the screen. Suggested prerequisite: The Creativity of Acting for Film & Stage.
Jun 11 – Jul 23 (7 weeks) Thursdays 7-10pm $201 DRAX 3044 300
TO REGISTER– CALL OR EMAIL:
512-692-0517
Fill out registration form and email to us:
http://www.austintheatre.org/site/PageNavigator/education/stateschool/adultclass/register
Read more about Tony:
Actor/director Tony Sears studied Drama at Furman University, The University of Georgia, and l’Institut des Etudes Européenes in Paris. He spent several years as the Associate Artistic Director of the Hilton Head Island Playhouse (now the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina) before moving to Los Angeles, where he spent 20 years working on both sides of the camera.
He worked in the Art Department of several films and TV shows, including three seasons of the series Star Trek: Voyager, assisting Emmy Award winning production designer Richard James. Sears later returned as an actor in two episodes of Voyager, playing a Starfleet Officer and the Borg Drone, Four of Twelve.
Tony has appeared in numerous roles for film, television, and stage and has directed many theater productions on both coasts. He played Dr. Davies in season six of Lifetime’s Army Wives, and has made guest appearances on such popular shows as Drop Dead Diva, Dallas, Devious Maids, ALIAS, Judging Amy and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He has also produced and directed for the camera, including Public Service Announcements, Industrials, a documentary (The Queen of Sunset Boulevard) and several short films.
Sears first began experimenting with kinetic energy in performance at The University of Georgia, under the direction of the late August Staub. In Los Angeles he trained and later taught with Darryl Hickman, exploring the Actor’s use of moment-to-moment energy. Before coming to Austin, he taught his own acting workshop in North Hollywood, where he experimented with how the creative imagination informs the flow of real-time, organic energy through an organized structure, free of “acting tricks.” Sears encourages actors to tell their story. They may use the author’s words, wear wardrobe’s clothing, stand where the director tells them, but it is the actor who ultimately breathes life into the role.
Sears is currently developing a television series based on characters from the Mary Magruder Katz novels by Barbara Levenson and in pre-production for the feature film, Jimmy & Mia which he will direct in and around Austin, TX.
…and there are many other great classes available at The State Theatre School of Acting. Feel free to contact us with any questions you may have.
See our full Summer Schedule here: http://www.austintheatre.org/site/PageNavigator/education/stateschool/adultclass/summerclasses_2015.html
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Babs George, Director
Brittany Flurry, Administrative Assistant
STATE THEATRE SCHOOL OF ACTING
in association w/ Austin Community College and the Paramount/Stateside Theatres
719 Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701 – Phone: 512-692-0517 – Fax: 512-472-7199
School website: www.austintheatre.org (click on INFO/State Theatre School of Acting)
“But the mystical trait in Duse’s nature was so strong that what started as an effort to free her work from self, inevitably evolved into an effort to free herself from self.”. . .
from The Mystic in the Theatre, Eleanora Duse