Voice and Movement for the Screen Actor Course

Program Overview

This program combines movement, voice, and speech techniques to enhance performers' natural abilities for on-camera performance. Through exercises inspired by Alexander, Spolin, and Sills, students develop posture, breathing, vocal quality, and body characterization skills. The program fosters emotional truth, increased energy, and mental alertness, enabling performers to explore vocal and body energies and discover new ways to connect with characters.

Program Outline

Outline:

This holistic approach to movement, voice, and speech aims at liberating and enhancing the performer's natural capacity for moving, sounding and speaking as applied to performance on camera. Using techniques developed by Alexander, Spolin, and Sills, learn to feel the way the human body naturally functions when it is free of adverse conditioning. Exercises in posture and breathing, tonal quality, pitch range, projection and body characterization lead to enhanced character portrayal, emotional truth, and increased energy and mental alertness. You experiment with vocal and body energies, discover numerous choices in communicating text, and find new ways of tapping into the imagination and soul of a character.