Actors and actresses facing the camera: How to take over a text as one's own?

Participants
8 to 10 actors/actresses with professional movie or stage experience. Filmmakers are invited to join the audience for a day by registering free of charge on a first come first served basis (seats limited). For further information: info@focal.ch
Date and venue
From Saturday 18 to Tuesday 21 March 2017, in Geneva
Registration/Application deadline
expired!
Fee
CHF 500, fee covered by the unemployment insurance in certain cases
Language
English, with simultaneous French translation. Actors /actresses to play in French or English.
Organisation
Olga Baillif, director

For actors to give themselves entirely over to the acting and to their partner, their text must vibrate with them on an emotional level. Moreover, everything must come alive to them: people's names, sites, the past to which allusions are made! Such appropriation work entails the creation of a monologue of each participant's choice, to be accompanied by an emotional preparation born of one's active imagination and a body devoid of any muscular tensions. Led by a talented coach, this seminar offers participants a chance to discover the Meisner technique, thanks to specific tools and concluding with the filming of a monologue. The resulting material will be turned over to the participants for inclusion in their demo tape.

Speaker

Sylwia Kaczmarek

Upon completing her studies, Sylwia Kaczmarek looked forward to sharing what she had learned. She teaches the Sanford Meisner technique in a highly disciplined, lucid and impassioned manner at the ‹Laboratorium Meisnera›, which she cofounded in Warsaw, and at ‹The Actors Temple› in London. Sylwia has coached actors and actresses, film directors and screen writers. She has also acted herself. She is president of the Act 4 Art Foundation, and cofounder of Furness Kaczmarek Studio.
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Seminar Concept

Nicole Borgeat
, director and dramatist
With support of

tamco

Focal is supported by
OFC