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Movement
Mime
Mask
Clown
Devised

Movement for Actors
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Concepts:
  • Preparing to Move
  • ESGE
Warm-Ups:
  • Sunrise
  • Expand and Contract (on floor)
  • Open the Sky
  • Fall and Support
  • Spine Drop and Build
  • Swings
  • Forward Undulations
  • Side Undulations
  • Explode the Hands
  • Face Warm-Up
  • Exercises:
  • Walking through Space
  • Herding
  • Follow the Leader with Ball
  • Airplane Flying
  • Harvesting Space
  • Throwing Energy
  • Whole Body Throw
  • ESGE Partner Stop
  • Driving
  • Shapes with Words
  • Foot Dialogue
  • Object Imitation
  • Rhythm / Time Exercise
  • Migration
  • Hide the Ball
  • Juggling
Neutrality:
  • Hoods
  • The Neutral Cycle
  • Partner Neutral Cycle
  • Precision Exercise
  • Bee on the Toe
  • Bird Exercise
  • Lurking Spiderman
  • Flocking
  • Grazing
  • Animal Study
  • Neutrality to Emotion
  • Personal Shapes
  • Statues
Projects:
  • The Birth of the Neutral Couple
  • Neutral Scenes ​
  • Scribble Scripts
  • Sell the Chair
  • Neutral Sandwich-Making
  • Photo Stories
  • Site Specific
  • Ball Project
Neoclassic Mime
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Concepts:
  • Prepare Your Body
  • Warming Up
Exercises:
  • Points in Space
  • The Wall
  • Drawing with Chalk
  • Floating Line
  • Pulling a Rope
  • Ringing a Bell
  • Floating Plane
  • Walking Along Walls
  • Opening a Panel
  • Leaning and Settling
  • Walking
  • Climbing Stairs
  • Climbing a Wall
  • The Chase
  • Our House
  • Moving an Object
  • Being Moved by an Object
  • Building and Shaping with Clay
Projects:
  • Personal Story
Neoclassic Mask
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Concepts:
  • Breathing through the Mask
  • General Do’s and Don’ts
  • Full Mask
  • Half Mask
Exercises:
  • Explore the Mask
  • Enter and Sit
  • Discover the Voice (Half Mask only)
  • Breakfast Monologue (Half Mask only)
  • Character Interview (Half Mask only)
  • Standing Over the Grand Canyon
  • Transportation Center
Projects:
  • Forces Theme
  • Scene from a Play
  • Demon Migration
  • Demon Trial
  • Monkey Mask Improv
  • Devil Reads
Neoclassic Clown
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​Concepts:
  • What’s a Clown?
  • 6 Clown Types
  • The Big 4 States
  • Spending Time
  • Passing and Filling Time
Exercises:
  • Meeting Your Nose
  • Find Your Silly
  • Birth of the Innocent
  • Be With Us (aka Spending Time)
  • Archetypal Clowns
  • Power Clown
  • Weakness Clown
  • Migration with Power Clowns
  • Discovering the Coat
  • Suitcase Music to Discover the Coat
  • Migration with Suitcases
  • Migration with Suitcases with Coats Inside
  • Migration with a Failing Body Part
  • Laughing Scales (1 to 10)
  • One Moves at a Time
  • Selling the Chair
  • Two Chairs, Three Salesmen
  • Two Clowns, One Chair
  • Screen Opposites
  • Observations of Passing and Filling Time
  • Rhythm / Time Exercises while Passing and Filling Time
  • One Passes Time, Two Fill Time
Projects:
  • Supreme Ruler
  • Supreme Ruler with Devil Assistant
  • Learn-A-Skill Clown
  • The Devil Reads
  • Transportation Center
  • Scribble Scripts
  • Funeral
  • Invent a Game
  • Fighting
  • Laugh Fight
  • Emotional Restaurant
  • The Gods
  • 7 Deadly Sins
  • Forces
  • Fashion Show
Devised Theater
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Concepts:
  • From Seed to Stage
Projects: 
  • A Story in Many Worlds
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