We are delighted to be offering Part Two of a series of four workshops in which Swiss actors get to experience Yat Malmgren?s extraordinary technique, stemming from the latter?s collaboration with the great dance theorist Rudolf Laban. It serves as a tool for the analysis of human expression and provides actors with the means to apply it to the process of transformation.
The workshop is led by the renowned Christopher Fettes, co-founder of the Drama Centre London, an academy that has produced some of the great figures of British and world cinema, including Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Michael Fassbender, Paul Bettany, to name but a few.
Coinciding with the publication of Christopher's book about the work, ‹a peopled labryinth›, Part Two concentrates on the aspect of the technique known as ‹Inner Attitudes›. Christopher is accompanied by Giles Foreman - a coach familiar to Swiss actors, and himself a former student of both Yat and Christopher.
Giles will offer a Catch-up Session prior to the workshop, to introduce new participants to the technique imparted during the first workshop. This may also be useful as a refresher course for those who attended the Part One workshop.
During this second workshop, Giles will lead the group in practical exercises, in order to bring into play the acting tools relevant to the theoretical approach to be presented by Christopher Fettes.
Christopher Fettes started out as an actor with the legendary East London Theatre Company. After meeting Yat Malmgren, with whom he was teamed for nearly fifty years, Christopher developed a career as a theatre director and a teacher. In 1963, the two (together with John Blatchley) founded the Drama Centre London, a drama school that went on to change the face of actor training in the UK and around the world. Christopher?s major innovation was to combine the American developments of Stanislavski?s system with the great European Classical tradition and with the Laban/Jungian system of ‹Character Analysis› as developed by Malmgren.
Giles Foreman is one of the leading acting specialists in the UK and owner of the Giles Foreman Centre of Acting, London. He has worked as an acting coach at the Drama Centre, London, and the Deutsche Schauspiel Akademie, among others, and on many movies, including ruhestörung, romeos, grounding, sennentuntschi and pédaleur de charme. He regularly coaches a wide range of actors before and during shoots and, most recently, he worked on immortals with Daniel Sharman.
Background information on Yat Malgrem, Christopher Fettes and Giles Foreman
