We are delighted to be offering Part Three of a series of four Workshops in which Swiss actors get to experience Yat Malmgren's extraordinary acting technique, stemming from the latter's collaboration with the great dance theorist Rudolf Laban. His technique 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.
After defining the Mental Factors, Inner Participations and Motion Factors in the first Workshop, and the six ‹Inner Attitudes› in the second one, the third Workshop will address that aspect of the technique known as the ‹Externalised Drives›. The four mental states of doing, passion, spell and vision result from the combination of three Mental Factors, are motivated by inner attitudes, these activate conscious actions. The Workshop will take the actors one step further in their understanding of this unrivalled technique for the analysis of expression.
Christopher Fettes is accompanied by Giles Foreman - a coach familiar to Swiss actors and a former student himself of both Yat and Christopher. The first day will be devoted to a revision of Parts One and Two of the technique. During the following days, Giles will lead practical exercises to help sensitize the actors' instruments to the theoretical work led 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 and with Alex Gonzalez on x men first class.
Background information on Yat Malgrem, Christopher Fettes and Giles Foreman
