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Meisner Training:
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Learn
the acting technique that revolutionized American Theater
without going NYC.
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Learn
to respond to your partner truthfully without censoring
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Focus
on proven exercises and techniques that create powerfully
authentic moments
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Be
transformed both as an actor and a person by focusing on the
present moment
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Learn
to respond openly and emotionally
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Learn
to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances
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Class
Description:
Deepen your understanding of the basics of
both improvisational and scripted theater by learning to respond
truthfully to
both your partner and the moment. This class will focus on the Meisner
technique and related exercises that help to put fully in the
moment. The class will include the basics of Meisner training
including the famous repetition technique.
Students will progress to
deeper understandings of the basic techniques through continued
practice both in and outside of class. Students will be expected to participate and
practice both in and outside of class. For specific examples of the
work and for reference purposes both students and potential students
should read or skim: Sanford
Meisner On Acting, by Dennis Longwell.
Class Date and Time:
Meisner Technique will
be offered on Sundays from 6pm to 8:30pm starting on Sunday May 22nd. This class fills up fast.
Cost:
Meisner Technique I is
$295 with a $25 dollar discount for early registration. Email
pantheater@comcast.net
to register for this class. The entire one year Meisner Intensive
Acting program will be offered at the Pan Theater space. There will
also be week long intensive Meisner and Improv programs offered over
the summer.
To register for our
Meisner class online please use the secure PayPal link below.
Class
Instructor:
Christy
English-Butcher's passion for acting began as a young girl, and after moving to LA in 1988 she decided to take an acting class and revisit her dream.
Christy was in a “method” class learning how to be a tree and a walk like a giraffe, and became disenchanted with the process.
She began to read about The ‘Meisner’ technique and became fascinated by this ‘honest’ way of acting. Sanford Meisner was starting a new class and was taking submissions. Out of 3500 applicants from LA, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and other major cities, he selected 50 students to go to the island of Bequia in the West Indies., and Christy Butchers was thrilled to learn that she was one.
Sandy selected Christy and 21 other students out of the 50 to study with him in LA for his two year private class, and the graduates were invited to his master class. Christy studied with Sanford Meisner for approximately four years.
For the past year, Christy has written, cast, directed and co-edited a film about teen addiction that has received accolades from as high as General Barry McCaffrey, former Secretary of Defense for the US government, and advocate for chemical dependency treatment
Christy has been in numerous theatre productions and has been the lead in many independent films.
Christy has been called an actors’ director. She has a huge respect for the process that actors go through, she is there to support them one hundred and fifty percent.
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