The Chekhov Actor's Training - Basic Training - improvisation, ensemble, technique, body and psychology, improvization, developing creative imagination, artist, atmosphere, artistic feelings and emotions, emotional sense memory, psychological gesture, coaching, auditioning

The Chekhov Actor's Training
The Ultimate Michael Chekhov Acting Workshop for Actors & Directors
by Daniele Legler

The Chekhov Actor's Training - Basic Training

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Modules of the Basic Training (8 Days)

1. The Actor's Body and Psychology
It is known that the human body and psychology influence each other and are in constant interplay. The suggested exercises enhance the balance and harmony between the body and psychology, making the actor more receptive to impulses from the mind.

2. Developing Creative Imagination
Discovering the power of the imagination and the technique of incorporating these images is an exciting and highly valuable way of learning to create characters entirely by yourself.

The Chekhov Actor's Training

3. Improvisation and Ensemble
The highest and final aim of every true artist, using Chekhov's unique improvisation technique, maybe defined as the desire to express the self freely and completely. The actor will rejoice in a new and gratifying sense of complete self-confidence along with a feeling of freedom and inner richness.

4. Atmosphere
Atmosphere exerts a very strong influence upon your acting. There is no atmosphere without an inner, dynamic life-force or will. So here you will practice how to consciously create an atmosphere, sustain it and let the acting happen naturally.

5. How to Awaken True Artistic Feelings and Emotions
In this course, you will be given some effective and simple techniques and exercises to awaken your real, creative feelings and emotions as Michael Chekhov's replacement for 'Emotional/Sense Memory'. Working this way, you will be able to approach any role with a new ease and skill - confidently.

6. The Psychological Gesture - PG
The Psychological Gesture (PG) is one of the best kept secrets. To assume the PG means to prepare the entire part in its essence, after which it will become an easy task to work out all the details during actual rehearsals on the stage. It is the spine of the psychology of the character expressed in a Physical Gesture or movement. It is the quickest, easiest and the most artistic way of transforming yourself into a character!

7. Coaching and Auditioning
Auditioning and Coaching with the Chekhov Technique.

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