NEW CLASS IN CZECH!!!
NOVÝ KURZ V ČEŠTINĚ!!!

Herectví pro model(k)y
Udělejte krok od modelingu k herectví

• Naučíte se herecké základy a jak se herectví liší od modelingu
• Naučíte se tipy a triky pro herecké castingy
• Dostanete zpětnou vazbu od castingového režiséra (Vivid nebo J.A.M. Casting)

3 víkendy, 4×60 minut každý den, 10:00 – 14:00
22.-23. ledna, 29.-30. ledna, 5.-6. února, 2011
4.800 Kč

Kde: Vedle Vivid Casting, Františka Křížka 1, 3. patro, Praha 7
tel: +420 608 577 012, www.acting.cz

„Tento kurz je skvělý pro model(k)y.
Díky němu chodím na castingy v mnohem větší pohodě. Naučíte se, jak se chovat před kamerou a víc si věřit!
Je to přesně pro model(k)y se hereckými ambicemi!”
– Knut Bjornstad
Model, nyní i student herectví

At the start of the new semester (classes started last week!), we have been focusing a lot on how the first phase of repetition work has so much to do with loving your partner. This is, of course, mostly a platonic love: a love for them one human being to another rather than a romantic love, though sometimes romantic love or attraction comes up through the exercise.

Why should this be a focal point of our work now? Is it enough to simply put your attention on the other person and repeat what they say and take them personally?

What we are going for here is a deep way of taking in what the other person is doing and the love or friendship aspect allows us to take our partner much more personally than if the partner was simply a colleague or classmate. When we love each other, we allow ourselves to be vulnerable to the other person, to give up complete control to the other person. We must do this if we are to be fully free in the moment. The love allows us to take personally even the most simple and seemingly innocuous behavior in the other person: the way they look at you or away from you; the way they stand; whether they move towards or away from you. Without the love, we can allow ourselves to be indifferent about these things. And being indifferent is a really uninteresting place to be for an actor!

Now, does this mean that we will only have love fests in our exercises? No. There will be differences of opinion and we will get hurt and angry with each other. We will feel rejected and betrayed and those feelings will lead to conflict. But if we start from a place of wanting to move towards each other, wanting to love each other, wanting to build a bridge to each other. The conflict becomes simply an obstacle - something to work through to get to the other side of and reach some sort of understanding rather than the point of the exercise. In the early stages there might be a difference of opinion that leads to conflict, but we are building a foundation so that in the later stages we can use our imagination to dirty the relationship and ensure that there is an obstacle or some kind of conflict in the exercise.

With a foundation of love and a dirty relationship (ie, someone did something to hurt the other person), then we can allow ourselves to go to the furthest edges of our emotion and trust that we will not lose ourselves. It allows us to feel and open ourselves in a deep way. The “love foundation” increases the faith that we have in ourselves and our ability to really be affected by the other.

So, at these early stages don’t shrink from loving your partner. Keep in your mind that you always want to be interested in the other, always want to move toward them and you will be in a great place to put the starting blocks further and further away. You will not only be able to see something human in them, you will make yourself vulnerable to them.

FILM ACTING + MEISNER COURSE

CSA Casting Director Nancy Bishop and acting coach joins actor/coach Brian Caspe to teach a special nine week acting course in Prague.

This twice weekly course, taught in English, will cover the craft of screen acting and auditioning, complimented by the Meisner technique that develops naturalist acting.

FILM ACTING SEGMENT: (Nancy Bishop)

Acting is both an art and a craft. The film acting portion of the course will focus on craft, emphasizing the technical demands of screen acting. Students will learn to calibrate their performances specifically for the camera frame, adjusting for close ups and a wide shots. Since the camera photographs thought, students will learn to develop an active and varying inner monologue, and understand the nuances of acting, thinking and listening with the eyes.

FILM AUDITION SEGMENT: (Nancy Bishop)
This segment will teach actors how to market and promote themselves in a competitive industry. Actors will learn strategies to tackle cold reading and on-screen castings. Each student will partake in a series of mock auditions and receive one on one coaching from Nancy.

MEISNER SEGMENT: (Brian Caspe)
Acting is living truthfully under imaginary circumstances. In the Meisner segment, we will work first on living truthfully, that is, breaking down barriers. Students then explore imagination: creating situations and relationships that bring two opposing viewpoints or objectives together. The “scenes” that come out of this work are improvised and full of emotion and truth. This work forms the foundation of acting craft.

About the teachers:

Nancy Bishop is an Emmy-award nominated casting director who has cast over sixty American and British films from her base in Prague. She is a member of the Casting Society of America and the European Network of Casting Directors. She has cast for major feature film including Roman Polanski’s Oliver Twist, Alien Vs. Predator, Bourne Identity, the Illusionist, Prince Caspian and Wanted. She has also cast TV series such as CBS’s Hitler on the Origin of Evil and the BBC’s BAFTA award winning Charles II. Ms. Bishop is committed to actor training and has developed a proven method for casting technique. She teaches master classes on film acting throughout Europe, the UK and the US. She has taught at top conservatories such as the American National Theater Institute and the Royal Scottish Academy of Dramatic Art. Her book, Secrets from the Casting, is available from Methuen Drama. She earned her Masters in Theater History Criticism at Northwestern University and her BA is in Acting and Directing from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). www.nancybishopcasting.com

Brian Caspe (Acting, Meisner Technique) is a professional actor who plays regularly in theater, TV, film and commercials. Motion pictures credits include Wanted, the Illusionist, Hellboy, Running Scared and Hannibal Rising. Brian also played a major supporting role in the NBC television series Revelations, opposite Bill Pullman. His most recent film is Solomon Kane with James Purefoy and Pete Postelwaite. In theater, Brian has gotten rave reviews playing in the lead in Oliver!, A Funny Thing Happened on The Way To The Forum, The Seagull, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown among many others. Since moving to Prague in the spring of 2002, Brian has re-energized the Expat acting scene. In 2003, he founded the Prague Playhouse with the aim to give native English-speaking actors a company where they could perform and English-speaking audiences a venue to enjoy. Brian regularly coaches Meisner technique which he studied in Los Angeles under Jeff Goldblum and Robert Carnegie (assistant to Mr. Meisner for 10 years). Over the past 4 years, many of his students have gone on to have successful acting careers and even more have learned to appreciate the power of living in the moment. www.acting.cz

Class Info:

Class is taught in English. Students with some experience preferred, but beginners welcome to apply.
Time: 11- 13:00, Mondays and Wednesdays
Date: 20 Sept – 17 Nov, 2010.
Place: Prague Film School, Pstrossova 19, Prague 1
Cost: 7,200kc.
Discount for early registration: 6500kc if registered by 13 Sept.
To Apply: Please send a letter of intent, and photo to filmschool@rexpats.com and brian@acting.cz