Due to an accident which rendered Christopher Fettes unable to walk and therefore travel, the fourth part of the series scheduled in March 2013 had to be cancelled at short notice. In order to make sure that all participants have the possibility to finish the full series and get opportunities to practice, part four will be held in London. This will enable Christopher to heal and recover fully and will bring the Work "home".
The workshop will take place at the 'Giles Foreman Centre for Acting' in the heart of London Soho - just a stone throw away from where Yat originally taught the work and where it is preserved and developed to this day. Last but not least, this will enabel us to invite other practitioners of the work to join and participate. The idea being to create a network of people who use the work in their careers.
In this workshop, all the previous aspects come together in the "Confluences of Externalized Drives". Christopher Fettes will revisit the six basic inner attitudes and will explain how they become visible in the Confluences as action and character. Giles will assist him with a more practical part of exercises, to bring the work from the theory into praxis.
Additionally participants will profit from the possibility of working with the Movement Specialist Janet Amsden, who has been Yat Malmgrens assistant for many years and is now the foremost person to teach the movement aspects of the work worldwide.
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 and with Alex Gonzalez on x men first class.
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.
Janet Amsden Movement Specialist, London
