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with Glen Williamson
Transformation constitutes the essence of an actor’s art. It is also essential in our lives. In this workshop, we will explore transformation through imagination, movement, and space. In order to explore personal space, imaginary bodies, centers, gesture, and qualities of movement, we will draw on the acting techniques of the great Russian actor Michael Chekhov as well as principles of Spacial Dynamics and Bothmer Gymnastics exercises.
We will also explore the spatial activities of anger, confidence, and balance as they relate to life and work including teaching. This workshop will be a “playshop,” with games, drama, storytelling, and improvisation to inspire the creative imagination and provide just plain fun, interspersed with contemplative, philosophical moments.
Bring comfortable clothes in which you can move. No previous acting or movement experience is necessary to enjoy the games and activities of this workshop.
Glen Williamson is a founding member of The Actors’ Ensemble and New Directions Theater. He has appeared in numerous productions throughout the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, and Switzerland; recently he toured North America in Goethe’s Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily with Laurie Portacarrero. The off-Broadway run of Glen’s one-man play, The Boy Who Saw True, was chosen by Back Stage as one of the five best plays of 1992. Glen has acted with the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the American Stage Festival in New Hampshire, as well as being featured as a storyteller at Amsterdam House nursing home in New York City.
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