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Movement

Mime

Mask

Clown

Devised

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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