Directing for Physicality

Subject is not scheduled Not scheduled

Subject guarantor:

Name of lecturer(s):

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Techniques for Directing the Physicality of Actors

Mode of study:

MODE OF STUDY: Interactive engagement in exercises

The Workshop “Directing for Physicality” takes place on Friday thru Sunday, October 21- 23, from 10 am to 5 pm in room 2. Priority is given to CDM students of Directing and Directing Students from the Režie department. Space is limited to 8 directing students, joined by 4 actors.

In addition, all FAMU students are welcome to attend Arne’s guest lecture on Monday, October 17th at 3:40pm in the projection room.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Directing coursework, Suitable for CDM students or APP/Directing

Course contents:

Techniques for directing physicality, creating character through breath, posture, body center, quality of movement.

Recommended or required reading:

Film Les Enfants du Paradis (Michel Carne, 1945)

Assessment methods and criteria:

Attendance, participation in exercises

LIMITS? 8 directing students, 4 actors

Course web page:

Note:

Arne Zaslove (www.zaslove.com) is in residence at AMU during the month of October through a Fulbright Senior Specialist award. This is Arne’s third Fulbright award, his first being at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris and his second at Iceland’s Academy of the Arts. Arne has years of experience as an actor, director, teacher and consultant to theatre and film projects. His method of working with actors was synthesized as Artistic Director of the National Theatre School in Canada, co-founder of the University of Washington PATP program, and Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia. His approach focuses on freeing the individual's body and imagination through a carefully devised sequence of physical exercises, mask work and improvisation. His students have gone on to varied and successful careers, from the circus to Stratford and Hollywood. He has shared his many years of experience nurturing performers, directors, designers and writers at schools throughout the United States and Europe. At FAMU, Arne offers a three-day workshop for directing students in “Directing for Physicality” where he will train the director in techniques to free an actor’s physical expression and direct the actor toward a physicality that serves the character to tell the story.

Further information:

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans: