Acting in Auditions: Monologues and Scenes - John Sugden
Week: 2
Session C
Auditions are a part of every actors life, and can seem like a dreaded ordeal. A vital technique tool in every actor's toolkit, auditioning can be awesome! This class will teach you skills to unlock, connect with, and act brilliantly any monologues you prepare in advance, show you how to make auditioning fun, and help you make bold choices if you are only given 5 minutes to prepare a cold reading. Come make your auditions amazing!
Folk Music and Beyond - Father Martin
Weeks: 1, 2
Session C
This class will explore American music and its roots in the British Isles. It will touch on such genres as traditional ballads, folk music, bluegrass, country western, protest music and other expressions of sung music and its influence in the United States.
Improv and Character Creation - John Sugden
Week: 2
Session A
In this seminar students will become quickly comfortable with the foundation ideas of Improvisation and learn intermediate and advanced Improvisation games and character exercises aimed at getting them comfortable making bold, confident, creative, collaborative choices. The skills learned will apply both to improvised and scripted scenes.
Improv and Character Creation - John Sugden
Week: 2
Session A
In this seminar students will become quickly comfortable with the foundation ideas of Improvisation and learn intermediate and advanced Improvisation games and character exercises aimed at getting them comfortable making bold, confident, creative, collaborative choices. The skills learned will apply both to improvised and scripted scenes.
Photography: From Snapshot to Fine Art - Father Martin
Weeks: 1, 2
Session A
With the increasingly better quality of phone cameras, more and more people are taking pictures of just about everything, yet they never seem to go beyond the level of snapshots. This course proposes to take advantage of this interest in photography and bring it to the level of fine art. Principles of good photography, techniques, the mechanics involved, etc. will bring your images a step beyond the level of snapshots. Students in this class should have access to a digital camera. If a phone camera is the only one available, a student can still participate.
Swords, Slaps, and Scenes - John Sugden
Week: 2
Session B
A grounding in stage combat techniques is a vital skill for any actor, and very fun to learn. Students will learn unarmed stage combat and broadsword technique in a focused, safety conscious and supportive environment. They will be taught how to construct fights that are safe but appear realistically violent, self-choreograph fights with partners, and will frame those fights with dialogue from existing scripted scenes and scenes they'll invent.