WEEKEND WORKSHOP
This workshop is for improvisers or actors.
Here is the workshop that will change your acting skills. It will slow you down, and make your work shine. This workshop will focus alot of attention on space object work and physical body work.
Bump up your acting skills to another level. We will focus on going deeper into your acting skills, guiding you through scene work, while bringing awareness to your improv habits (we all have them). These habits are causing your work to be less believable, less effective, less interesting on stage, and keeping you from expanding your play.
Believability
Training all the elements of playing truthfully in a scene. Starting with Location. Are you really at a beach, is the sand hot, is there a breeze,can you hear children laughing, do you smell sun tan lotion?
Emotions
Meisner Technique. We will touch on this technique and how to use it in improv to get us into emotional and honest work as an Actor. Are you ever affected by anything in improv scenes? If you don't care about anything, we don't care about you. Learn how to deepen your Characters by showing many kinds of emotions.
Space Object work
Do you really see what is in your hands, do you really see what is in your partner's hands? We must see it and feel it. We will work on slow exercises to train clean movement so the audience can really picture the setting.
Honest Characters
Would your Character really do that? Characters, just like us have many sides, we must be more than just caricatures or archetypes. We must be human.
The more honest you can be, the more you are affected, and the more watchable you become.
Closeness and Intimacy
Intimacy is a very powerful tool and will change how you improvise. If we are going to be believable as improvisors then we have to feel safe enough to act out real relationships, or young lovers, best friends, or on the other spectrum, people who can't stand being very close to each other. Through Closeness exercise's you will begin to feel instead of thinking. You will slow down and do less. You will begin to feel the emotions from your partner which will inspire you to go beyond just quick witty one liners.
We will coach you into a safe place so that you can freely work on being close both physically and emotionally with your fellow player.
Silence
And last but not least, we will work on letting the scenes breathe. Letting silence empower the emotion on stage. Young improvisors talk all the time on stage, which causes them to block any emotion that may be building up inside. The silence in scenes are like the rests in great music. Just as much as the notes being played make a song, the silence is what makes many songs unforgettable.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to go deeper in your improv skills by being honest, slowing down, showing emotions, listening, and letting the silence play a major role. This class will have no emphasis on being funny. The comedy will come out of playing the scenes as true as possible.
Details:
This weekend workshop will be on May 10th and May 11th.
The class is at FMP1, Franz-Mehring-Platz 1, 10243 Berlin
11am-6pm Saturday
11am-4pm on Sunday
This course will be taught by me, Robert Rodgers (biography below), and costs 210 EUR, or Early Bird special of 190 paid by April 30th payable to:
Robert Rodgers / Berliner Sparkasse / DE13 1005 0000 1068 0212 30 / BELADEBEXXX / Finanzamt & Steuernummer: Pankow 31, 495/00 232
Please email scratchtheater@gmail.com to let me know you have paid, as sometimes the payment can take a couple days to go through and I want to be sure you get your spot in the course! Also, let me know if there are any questions.
I’m looking forward to meeting you!
Robert
Biography: Robert Rodgers, founder and director
Robert is the founder of the Scratch Theater Improv School in Berlin and has trained players in a new way of performing, some new to improv and some looking for something different. A method based on emotion, rich characters, and narration that provokes the audience.
Scratch Theater was created in 1995 to explore long-form improv and to take it beyond what audiences have come to expect. Robert Rodgers trained at B.A.T.S in San Francisco as well as L.A.T.S in Los Angeles. He also trained under Rafe Chase from “3 For All” for years in the Bay Area and was part of the advanced training under “True Fiction Magazine” where he was guided under Barbara Scott, Regina Saisi, Tim Orr, Steven Kearin, and Rafe Chase. He has also trained under Keith Johnstone.
Taking his knowledge from improv theater, Robert also applied his knowledge of acting skills from where he was trained at A.C.T in San Francisco and also the S.F. Circus School where he studied movement, clowning and acrobatics. Robert has performed in repertory theaters, and a variety of circuses around the world, including Cirque Du Soleil. In 2005 Robert was asked to join L.A.T.S to perform and teach at the Amsterdam Improv Festival, which led him to return to teach both in Amsterdam and Paris numerous times. He then went on to direct many shows around the world where he used his improv skills, circus training and acting ability to actually create shows that inspire audiences to think differently about theater. His main focus has always been on how to bring forth the voice of each actor to rise above their own ego and lead everyone into stories that are imprinted in the audience’s memory.