Course "Acting for Life"

The course "Acting for Life" is the development of personality in its purest form. The tools and techniques of actors, which have been developed and improved since the beginning of the 20th century, can be successfully used in life. The most realistic display of emotions, feeling of a partner, the ability to quickly reincarnate and change your inner state - this is what distinguishes an actor from an ordinary person. ⚡️ What is included in the course: 1. Basic skills of an actor. The module is dedicated to bodily and emotional freedom. Removing clamps, increasing awareness and self-confidence, communication skills.  Acting skills: ✅ Cycle "Thought - Emotion - Action - Result". A visual demonstration of the connection between our mind, body and emotions. A tool for managing yourself through any component. ✅ Scale of emotional tones and Plutchik's wheel of emotions. Emotions are the foundation of our life. Awareness of them, understanding the triggers that cause them and conscious management, helps to live life more intensely and richer. Emotions allow you to create natural characters on stage. ✅ Emotional intelligence is a skill necessary to calmly cope with stressful situations and interpersonal conflicts. ✅ Inner attention - attention to your feelings and thoughts. ✅ Internal images - pictures that appear in the head of an actor while playing on stage. ✅ Internal action - the intention and desire to solve your problem without external physical manifestations. ✅ Internal monologue.  Skills:Diaphragmatic breathing. Concentration. Empathic listening. Soft skills. Visualization. 2. Role models. The module is dedicated to the basic tools of the Stanislavsky system. Awareness of their role functions in life and on stage.  Acting skills: ✅ Role patterns - the mental, emotional and physical manifestations of each image. Any role can be broken down into building blocks - patterns - analyzed and adjusted if necessary. This can be done both with the characters we play and with our role models in life (strict boss, obedient wife, good friend, etc.). ✅ Super task is the main need of the character during his stage life. The ability to understand your needs and desires deeper than stereotypes. ✅ Stage tasks and obstacles are what we need to accomplish and go through during one scene or a specific life situation. Understanding stage tasks helps to be always focused on the goal and gives inner energy. ✅ Substitutions and character backstory are important tools for an actor's inner workings. The background helps to better understand the logic of actions and why we are at this point. Substitutions are a way of identifying your partner on stage with specific people from our lives for a more natural experience of emotion.  Skills: Fantasy. Verbal and body improvisation. Internal temporhythm control. 3. Working with text. The module is devoted to rhetoric and stage speech. Understanding the meanings of speech and shaping them through the voice.  Acting skills:✅ Intonation - control your voice as an instrument. The transfer of meanings not only through the text, but also through intonation. ✅ Articulatory gymnastics are key exercises for developing clear diction. Basic rhetorical tools. ✅ Sense of rhythm. ✅ Freedom of voice - relaxation of the ligaments, body, voice support. Vocals. ✅ tongue twisters and long twisters.  Skills: Clear diction. Conscious voice control. Pauses and accents. Congruence of text and voice. Memorization of texts. 4. Aesthetics and visual component on stage. The module is dedicated to understanding different stage styles and genres.  Acting skills. ✅ The difference between cinema and theater. ✅ Symmetry on stage - the ability to create a drawing by a group of actors and other visual instruments. ✅ Light as a pictorial tool. ✅ Musical accompaniment as a means of strengthening the state and conveying meaning. Psychological gesture. ✅ Minimal theory of music, painting, cinema.  Skills: Musical plastic. Argumentation of your vision. 5. The journey of the hero in the work on the role. The module is dedicated to the ability to find and use your inner resource on stage and in life.  Acting skills:✅ Soul and ego constructions. Any ego-construct (role model) is a derivative of the mind and is a set of habitual patterns of behavior. While the soul has a spiritual component and is not a product of the mind. An actor can learn to understand his soul and use spiritual resources for realization on stage and in life. ✅ Main archetypes are main images that have been known for centuries and have approximately similar behavior and meaning for different cultures. ✅ The main plots of world culture. ✅ Association and dissociation - the ability to look at yourself from the inside and from the outside. ✅ Modalities are the prevailing channels of perception of the World (kinesthetics, visuals, audials). ✅ Levels of abstraction - the scope and scale in which we perceive the situation.  Skills: Observer state. Reframing. - changing the scale or perspective in which we see the situation. Conflict resolution. ⚡️ What we do in the classroom: ✅ We work with the body. This block includes: muscle warm-up, psycho-bodily exercises to relieve fears, contact improvisation, theatrical plastics, single and group exercises for the development of imagination and improvisation. ✅ We develop the vocal apparatus. Setting diaphragmatic breathing, releasing resonators, articulatory gymnastics, vocal exercises, intonation development. ✅ Creative acting exercises: sketches, emotional training, development of improvisation, silent sketches, setting a given situation, resolving conflicts.✅ Analysis of situations from life, and search for solutions that acting skills can provide. Playing them in a training format. ✅ We develop cognitive qualities: memory, visualization skill, concentration of attention. ✅ Once a week, invited teachers come to classes - specialists in their field. Or there are panel discussions, discussions for a better understanding of the topic and exchange of views. ⚡️ Master of the course Mikhail Fedorov. Actor, director, artistic director of the theater "TVARI". More than 10 productions as an actor. Administrator of the theater "Paradox" 2015 - 2016 Staged 7 creative programs and performances on various stages of the city. He studied at international theater workshops, including with foreign masters (Markus Nieden, Euripides Laskaridis). After getting to know the theater, he completely changed himself and his life. ⚡️ Schedule: Tuesday: 19:00 - 22:00. Thursday: 19:00 - 22:00. Friday: 19:00 - 21:00. ⚡️ Course duration: 8 months (September 14 - April 29). ⚡️ Address: st. Preobrazhenskaya, 45. ⚡️Cost of training: 1600 UAH / month. Early booking - up to 25% discount Recruitment into the group - only after the interview. Recording for an interview in the form: https://forms.gle/TKyEP6PcvBoN46Pf8 ⚡️ In a group of up to 15 people. ⚡️ Every four months there is a reporting screening of students.