LABAN Character Workshop for experienced/advanced NZ Actors

LABAN Character Workshop for experienced/advanced actors. This workshop runs for 4 full days across 2 consecutive weekends, Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st July plus Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th August, 9.30am-4.30pm each day. Participants must be able to commit to all four days (the full program). Michèle has taught Laban character work for over 30 years. Laban is an invaluable tool for actors, enabling them to experience and explore  the varied energies which make up the human experience. By exploring these energies, as originally identified and notated by Rudolf Laban, the actor can then identify their own energetic propensities - in  their acting and their life. They  also  explore how to 'get inside' a different way of moving, thinking and feeling.  This technique allows actors to create true and complex characters and is an exciting way to broaden their range. This intense two-weekend workshop is for experienced actors who want a refresh and reboot, especially after the trials of Covid. The first weekend will cover exploration of the 8 core Laban energies, then allow the actor to apply the techniques to short script so that they have gained a useful tool to take into auditions/rehearsals/performance for both stage and screen. The second weekend looks at more emotionally and psychologically complex 'layering' and 'play against' as a full two hander scene is explored. This work often reveals the actor's 'go to' habits when receiving and reading a script, and encourages them to find how the different energies can provide different ways into, and interpretations of, the text. It also expands their emotional, physical and intellectual colour palette for a character.