Two One-Week Acting Workshops
Dates: July 11-July 19th & July 25-August 2
Location: Texas Shakespeare Festival, Kilgore, TX
Students will live on the Kilgore College Campus
Daily classes from 8:30 AM–5:30 PM
Subjects include:
1. Audition Techniques: How to choose the right monologue, basic headshot information and a "how to" for resumes, marketing yourself, and discovering what roles fit you.
2. Stage Combat: Learn a choreographed fight with rapier swords, daggers, and more.
3. Musical Theatre: Finding your vocal range, choosing a song, vocal exercises and techniques.
4. Voice and Speech: Breath support, pitch, control, posture, diction, dialects, and vocal warm ups for the actor
5. Movement: In movement class you will discover how to refocus the pre-audition jitters into a positive energy. It is applied to recovering freedom of movement, impulse control and attention to poise.
6. Classical and Contemporary Scene Work: Students will rehearse scenes and monologues from period pieces such as Shakespeare and modern works as well like Tennessee Williams and Sam Shepard.
7. Shakespearean Text: Become more familiar with the text of Shakespeare. You will be comfortable and confident speaking Shakespearean language.
Students will get to see all of Texas Shakespeare Festival 2009 Season:
Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Moliere’s Tartuffe, the musical She Loves Me and our children’s show Rumpelstiltskin
|
