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Preparing Special Skills; E4: Singer Warm Ups
A practical vocal warm up for singers with piano accompaniment.
Preparing Special Skills; E5: Preparing Voice and Body for Shakespeare
Get your mind, body, voice, and spirit ready to perform Shakespeare.
Finding Closure; E4: Crossing Out of Character
A guided visualization to lead you into a grounded state of self after a performance.
Energizing the Body; E4: Releasing Tension and Grounding Yourself
A mental, emotional, and physical warm-up through imagination work.
Preparing Special Skills; E6: Freshening-up an old Monologue with Mask Work
Revisit a monologue you have explored previously to add new life and texture.
Energizing the Body; E5: Energizing the Voice-Body Connection
Explore your vocal and physical potential through an exploration of sounds.
Activating Imagination; E6: Imagination Pizza
Warm up imagination and play in an imaginary kitchen.
Finding Closure; E5: De-Roling
Through breath work, body scanning and guided imagery, this episode will help you release your character post-performance.
Activating Imagination; E7: Imagination and Wizardry
This guided visualization is a magical way to warm up your body and mind for classroom or performance. Listeners will be led first on a journey through their own sens...
Activating Imagination; E8: River Journey
Journey within through a guided meditation practice to awaken imagination, senses, and self. This warmup is inspired by the practice of Ritual Poetic Drama.
Finding Closure; E6: Stepping out of Character through Senses
Take time with the senses to release a character after rehearsal or performance. This episode will use sights, sounds and textures from the imagination and the real sp...
Preparing Special Skills; E7: Preparing for Drag Performance
Drag performance is an artform that requires preparation of both body and mind. This episode will release tension and increase energetic engagement and dynamic express...
Discovering Character; E7: The Circus
Head to an imaginary "big top" tent to explore different elements of dynamic characterization through a guided embodiment exercise.
Energizing the Body; E5: Awakening the Spirit with Soul Work
Explore movement, empathy and intentions by connecting to your ancestral roots. This practice stems from enslaved African ancestors; it places strong emphasis on artis...
Exploring Emotions; E5: Playing Big Emotions through Psychological Gesture
Discover skills to tell the story of a large emotional life through full-bodied gestures and breath. Based on Michael Chekhov's Psychological Gestures.
Finding Closure; E7: Celebrating the Life and Death of your Character
Follow a guided, imaginative journey through 3 possible points in your character's life, and find ways to let go of your character in a healthy manner.
Activating Imagination; E9: Design your Non-Human Superhero
Whether you're looking to get creative with a current character, or take a creative break by becoming an imaginative super-hero, this episode is for you.
Preparing Special Skills; E8: Emotional and Boundary preparation for Intimacy Choreography
Explore the emotional and boundary preparations required for intimacy choreography. Actors are led to protect their mental well-being while authentically portraying c...
Energizing the Body; E6: Supercharge your Body through Effort Actions
A dynamic exploration of Laban's Eight Effort Actions, employing principles that integrate weight and time into invigorating activities. This episode will awaken sens...
Activating Imagination; E10: Object Imagination Time!
Ignite your sense of play and creativity by using your imagination to transform nearby objects.
Preparing Special Skills; E9: Igniting Heightened Text
This episode will help those exploring heightened text to activate their bodies using Psychological Gesture from Michael Chekhov. Text used will be the English transla...
Energizing the Body; E7: Releasing Neck and Jaw Tension
Feel more relaxed, open and vocally ready for rehearsal or performance through exercises that create release in the neck and jaw.
Exploring Emotions; E6: Clowning around with Emotions
Work with larger-than-life Clown exercises to find connection to your emotional life in performance. Inspired by exercises created by Christopher Bayes and Michelle M...