CHARACTER ANALYSIS / Movement Psychology - for Actors, Advanced
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In Soho
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Course
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Soho
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8 Days
Yat's work offers a methodology to transform into another character. The method applies the psychology of movement developed by Rudolph Laban to acting. Malmgren's method of character development is concerned with a technique for expressing the inner state of a character through movement. Suitable for: Actors, Directors, Performers
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- MASTERCLASS YAT'S WORK
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About this course
Basic knowledge of Yat's methodology.
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Teachers and trainers (3)
Christopher Fettes
Acting Coach
We are delighted to welcome Christopher Fettes as an esteemed colleague. Christopher Fettes is one of the great theatre and actor pedagogues of the UK, and in fact world theatre and cinema industry. He started as an actor working with the legendary East London Theatre Company - Theatre Workshop under Joan Littlewood. Christopher's great contribution was to introduce the Method to the UK, by jointly founding Drama Centre, London with Yat Malmgren in 1963. His book is due out early in 2012.
Giles Foreman
Director
Giles Foreman is one of the leading acting coaches in the UK, and in Europe; he has worked as an acting coach at the Drama Centre, London; Deutsche Schauspiel Akademie, and The Forum for Filmschauspiel, Berlin; The City Lit; NODA; Stage Center – Jerusalem, Israel; the Pula International Festival of Theatre, Croatia and the International Festival of Making Theater, Athens. He has run workshops all over the world, and is much in demand as a film acting-coach, director and producer.
Liana Nyquist
Movement Coach
Liana studied at Drama Centre and then became the assistant to the founder, Dr Yat Malmgren in the Laban analysis of character movement. She is a vanguard figure of physical theatre, having performed with various dance theatre/physical theatres companies all over the world. She has worked with numerous directors in both film and theatre as a Movement Coach and Specialist including ‘Clash of the Titans’ (2009) with Liam Neeson. Liana is a lecturer at CSM, University of the Arts and the Drama Centre.
Course programme
Analysis/Movement Psychology:
Yat Malmgren (March 28 1916-June 6 2002) led -jointly with John Blatchley- the creation of the Drama Center in the autumn of 1963 and stayed as Director of Movement at the School. Malmgren taught a number of famous actors including Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, and Anthony Hopkins, as well as Andrew Tiernan, Helen McCrory, Paul Bettany, Michael Fassbender, Russell Brand, Anne-Marie Duff, Craig Kelly, John Sim, Sean Harris, Ryan Early, Andrew Pleavin and Nicolas Tennant.
Born in Gavle, north of Stockholm in 1916, he went to went to drama school with Ingrid Berghman but possessed an exceptional talent for movement and dance and so he soon became a world famous “Character Dancer” of the 1930’s. As the war broke out Yat found refuge in Dartington Hall in Devon where he met Hungarian character Dancer Rudolf Laban. Laban took Yat under his wing and left him all his notations on the exploration of movement in everyday experience. Yat later adapted Laban’s notations to acting and thus creating a revolutionary teaching tool as opposed to conventional theatrical dance.
8 weekends 16/17 feb - 8/9 June 2013
CHARACTER ANALYSIS / Movement Psychology - for Actors, Advanced