FALL Classes, Session 1 @ Actors Bridge
Event Information
Description
Level 2 w/ CJ Tucker: meeting once weekly for 8 sessions. $350 (no class Labor Day)
Private coaching sessions with Vali are $100/hour and can be tailored to address the needs of writers, actors and other performers working on specific material. Vali also provides media training and script and performance development workshops.
For inquiries, contact us at info@actorsbridge.org.
Created by Sanford Meisner of New York’s influential Group Theatre, the Meisner Technique creates truthful, emotionally-connected actors. Meisner-trained actors include Steve McQueen, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, James Gandolfini, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, Allison Janey and Connie Britton.
The Meisner Technique gets you out of your head and into the moment. At Actors Bridge, we take students through a step-by-step approach to the Meisner Technique giving them a strong foundation in being an emotionally available, truthfully responsive actor.
Whether you are an actor interested in deepening your craft or someone looking for greater confidence, spontaneity and intuition in your everyday life, the Meisner Technique can help you on your journey.
Some guiding principles of the Meisner Technique include:
- Acting is the ability to live truthfully under imaginary circumstances.
- The foundation of acting is the reality of doing.
- There's no such thing as nothing.
- Acting is about instincts and intuition not intellect (heart not head).
- Active awareness frees actors from selfconsciousness on stage.
THE FULL MEISNER SERIES:
LEVEL ONE: INTRODUCTION TO THE MEISNER TECHNIQUE
This course introduces the concepts of the approach and develops the actors' instinct, encouraging actors to work with greater spontaneity and honesty.
LEVEL TWO: SCENE STUDY
Actors work in improvisation and scenework learning to be emotionally full and truthfully responsive in performance.
LEVEL THREE: EMOTIONAL PREPARATION
Perhaps the most integral part of the Meisner approach, at this level, actors learn to have emotional truthfulness that is appropriate to the imaginary circumstances of the scene.
LEVEL FOUR: SCENE STUDY W/EMOTIONAL PREPARATION
More complex improvisations and more challenging scenework are assigned as students learn to put emotional preparation to practice.
LEVEL FIVE: INTERPRETATION AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
At this level, actors confront challenges associated with performance. Students develop the ability to apply personal interpretations to the text and build appropriate characters through attention to culture, period, language, and physical adjustments.
ADVANCED ACTING: BOOK OF DAYS PLAY PROJECT
This class is for students who have completed Levels I-IV of the program. Emphasis is on individual performance development and on-going scenework. Beginning with auditions, we will work from table read through final performance in this intensive using Lanford Wilson's BOOK OF DAYS employing all aspects of the Meisner Technique in the rehearsal process. Students must be able to commit to full process. Email Vali here to learn more.
For more information and/or inquiries please visit www.actorsbridge.org
Organizer Actors Bridge Ensemble
Organizer of FALL Classes, Session 1 @ Actors Bridge
WE ARE
We are a Meisner Technique training program for new and seasoned actors.
We are a women-led theatre company of Nashville natives dedicated to telling the stories our hometown needs to hear.
We are committed to taking big risks in the service of authentically reflecting the human condition.
We are in love with broadening what is considered theater in our community.
We are people who help others find their voice and speak their truths on stage and in life.
WE BELIEVE
We believe in theater’s power to heal us in a thousand places we may not have realized needed healing.
We believe that the theater is a sacred calling: we make a promise to our community to stay emotionally connected in a world that praises going numb. We promise to feel and remind our audiences how good feeling can be.
We believe in the ensemble principle. The person you see on stage in one show you will likely see behind the light board in the next. The person selling tickets may also be a budding new playwright. Your usher is likely an aspiring actor.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to tell the stories Nashville needs to hear as we train theater artists, produce socially conscious plays, create new work, expand what counts as theater in our community, and help artists and audiences care more about their neighbors and themselves.
We are the home of Act Like a GRRRL and First Time Stories.
Phone Number: 615-498-4077. Email: info@actorsbridge.org
Studio location: Darkhorse Chapel, 4610 Charlotte Avenue, Nashville, TN 37209
We perform at our studio and the Darkhorse Theater and other venues around Nashville.
