Workshops
NYC & Los Angeles
Coming June 2024
Who am I?
A four-day journey into 'Character Analysis' based on the work of Rudolph Laban, Yat Malmgren and Carl Jung. This workshop looks at: character layers (outer and inner); character motivations (conscious and unconscious); the 'shape' of thought processes; the resulting physical life; and the deep life questions that form a character's destiny and reason for being in a story.
A brief but practical look at the extraordinary theory of Movement Psychology that will change the way you see characters and indeed yourselves.
TAUGHT by GILES FOREMAN FACILITATED by GFCA NYC JANICE ORLANDI
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Movement Psychology
The work of Yat Malmgren leads to a profound ability for the Artist to transform on both an inner and outer level. Given in two parts (Yat 1/2 and Yat 3/4), the Movement Psychology workshop is a profound study of human expression developed by Rudolph Laban over 50 years and completed by Yat Malmgren. The only extensive typology of human expression that we know of, it comes complete with an extraordinary set of exercises to aid in transformation. This work brings Stanislavski together with Laban's discovery of the fundamental rhythms that produce character. Laban believed you can tell who someone is - and what they want - by the way they walk into a room. It will change the way you view character and the world.
Audition Technique
Learn how to break down a text – at speed - and to make an educated guess as to what ‘they’ might be looking for. How to prepare, to stay in the moment, to be real, to be layered, to surprise, and to be improvisational when given direction.
Students will work on techniques for cold reading monologues and scenes through the lens of Yat Malmgren's Technique of Character Transformation and Movement Psychology.
Instinct & Intimacy
An actor's great challenge is is to develop a capacity to be ‘private in public’ and to allow the audience to see inside; to be, in effect, intimate while being watched. This allows the audience to empathize on a profound level, with sustained interest, and to feel a sense of knowing the character.
Another area of challenge is to develop the actors' impulses. This is essentially the art of the actor, the point of creativity where impulses arise from the subconscious. How often do we judge and block these impulses and thereby our creativity?
The instinct and intimacy workshop tackles these two areas. By opening up the actor's instrument and empowering trust in impulses, we increase the capacity for empathy, imagination and free expression.
Scene Study
Contemporary & Shakespeare
In the context of scene study, Giles will introduce you to the character and script analysis work of Yat Malmgren and Christopher Fettes including: inner and outer life, playing the subtext, and connecting to impulse. We will explore sense memory work and practice using the self and one's own experiences to bring truth and organic reality to a scene.