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4change offers acting classes throughout the year, in five week blocks, either on a Sunday or evenings through the week.
HELLO ACTORS and Colleagues who may have young people wanting an intensive before they begin their auditions:
AUDITION WORKSHOP INTENSIVE 6 HOURS OF EXPLORING FORM AND PROCESS
On 13th November at 12 midday in Warehouse space at Metro Arts i am holding a workshop for those of you who want to work on audition pieces for drama schools.
We will have a day of it:
12-1pm PROCESS: CHECK INi/GOALING/IMPULSETRAINING
1.10pm Shakespeare: FORM/CONTENT: stretching the text; playing with form;
2PM Break
2.20 Shakespeare
3.30 Modern pieces
6pm Finish
six hours of intense work where you will find new approaches, new vigour and passion for the pieces you have chosen;
i only want 8 people, so first in first served,
Cost: $90.00 for six hours
Margi
a letter to actors
September 1st, 2008hello everyone,
Well our five week term stretched much further, and as a consequence we have had some very rich performance work, particularly those actors who had the opportunity to perform at Metro Arts: yesterday afternoon we used many of the nooks and crannies of the third floor including the lavatory, kitchen and the cupboard.
After meeting together it was decided that we would continue to work together but in a manner that was more affordable, both in time and funds.
We decided that the first Sunday of the month could be at my Pullenvale studio.
- We would meet at 10am on the first Sunday of the month in the morning; do impulse training, then create mini performances with stimuli provided by me.
- Bring lunch to share; and finish around 4 or 5pm.
- These works would then be workshopped throughout the month on Sunday mornings or afternoons at Metro Arts without me (but if you want consultation through the week you can pop in to Metro Arts Third Floor and talk with me).
- The following month, on the first Sunday, you return to Pullenvale for a day of refining with me.
- Then the following week we have a public showing.
This is a very solid way of developing new work, as well as what I am most interested in, developing an ensemble so that we can then create major works.
MOTIVATION BEHIND THIS PROJECT:
Being a constant theatre goer, what is impacting on me at the moment is the apparent slow disappearance of the ‘actor as artist’, as we move from traditional theatre to what is now becoming known as ‘innovative performance’, a subject I teach at QUT.
In Brisbane,( I am not sure if this applies elsewhere), there seems to be a move away from the artistry of the actor towards the actor as craftsman, performing tasks/activities on stage rather than embodying the transformation of metaphor…I am wondering what would it be like if we could incorporate technology and these interesting new ways of performing and still retain the transformative actor…am i wanting too much i wonder, yet I am reminded of the artistry and finesse of Robert Wilson’s actors…acting is an art form and requires constant training until the day we decide not to act again and just as the musician never stops practising, the actor never stops training.
If this interests any of you, please contact.
These things only happen with energy,
margi
ACTING CLASSES IN BRISBANE
August 16th, 2008HELLO
4change conducts acting training and acting classes in Brisbane.
Margi Brown Ash works with actors as coach and therapist.
Call her on +61 410 515 637 or email her on 4change@iinet.net.au to find out when classes are happening.
The most popular class presently is the double class: two actors for 1 and a half hour class, working on audition pieces as well as basic experiential acting craft.
Sunday classes: 10am for people who have not worked at 4change before
2pm for artists who have worked with Margi Brown Ash
All welcome
Come and challenge yourself.
Margi