Acting Workshop: Tableaux-Artful Specificity

Tableaux: Artful Specificity

Sunday, December 7; 1:00-4:00pm; maximum participants: 20

Instructors: Robert Kiefer, Carol Ponder

Tableaux are windows into the world of theatre. Relying mostly on body language and physical interpretations of events and emotions rather than words, they’re often less intimidating than other types of improvisatory theatre work. They also allow actors—inexperienced or old hands—the opportunity to experience or remember what it feels like to make very specific choices about posture, breath, gesture, center-of-gravity placement, balance, focus, and intention: things that make the difference between a stellar and an adequate performance. Participants will be guided through several types of tableaux (single, sequential, moving, with and without words) starting from various stimuli (photographs, paintings, and abstract concepts). Actors will take away new habits of mind and body to help them create their next on-stage characters in vivid, revealing detail. 3 hours. Cost: $35

Contact: Lauren Shouse

Number: 615-349-3217

Email: lauren@tennesseerep.org 

Listed: Tuesday, October 14th, 2008