Acting & Drama at SDH with Lucas Myers

with special guest facilitator LUCAS MYERS Oct 4th to Dec 9, Wed/Thurs 4-6pm

Creation and Collaboration:

The Actor as Creator

This workshop will focus on the performer as a creator, with students creating a devised work at the end of each term. The first term will focus on a collaborative performance based on a specific social issue. The second term will conclude with a roving, site specific performance in which the audience will move through downtown Nelson and encounter performers as they travel. Throughout the year, each class will include exercises to promote physical awareness and cultivate connectivity between performers onstage, leading to a more present and available performance style. Focus will be placed on working as an ensemble, both in devising material and in performance. This will empower students to have a clarified presence on stage and to feel confident about discovering their artistic voice. There will also be a yearlong Shakespeare Monologue study and audition training, as well as solo projects and character studies.

Creative Collaboration Drama 10

Introduction to techniques used in a collaborative process including generating material and focussing ideas. Students will also start to work on intuitive performance, with exercises that promote being in the moment on stage and following impulses.

Creative Collaboration Drama 11

Focus will be placed on working collectively to create a production, choosing a theme and creating material based on the theme. Play building, monologues and implementing various methods of expression including song, puppetry, and video will be explored.

Creative Collaboration Drama 12

The students will create a production based on a theme and implementing a variety of dramatic tools. Exercises will focus on stage awareness and self expression as well as building character and finding a unique “voice”. All aspects of the production will be created by the students.

Space is limited!

Class Begins 3rd week of October

(1-4pm on Mondays or Fridays – TBD)

To register:  info@selfdesignhigh.org | 250 354 1310