How do we access creativity? How we manage to forget who we are and project ourselves into the skin of another person? These are some of the questions that inform this workshop.
Start Date: 27 March
Age groups: 12 to 16 years old
Price: 500 QAR
Dates: The workshop runs from 27 March through 10 May.
The sessions will be held from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Week 1: Monday March 27th - Wednesday March 29th
Week 2: Monday April 3rd - Wednesday April 5th
Week 3: Monday April 10th - Wednesday April 12th
Week 4: BREAK
Week 5: Monday April 24th - Wednesday April 26th
Week 6: Monday May 1st - Wednesday May 3rd
Week 7: Monday May 8th - Wednesday May 10th
How do we access creativity? How we manage to forget who we are and project ourselves into the skin of another person? These are some of the questions that inform this workshop.
The class teaches acting through improvisation, which encourages the students to play in public without a predefined text or prior direction. Improvisation helps students develop creativity and listening skills, inspiring them to imagine and to share.
Improvisation also makes the actor conscious of the body and its movements. For this reason, the first half hour of each session is dedicated to body work, relaxation, breathing peripheral balance and breathing.
The remainder of each session focuses on to individual and group improvisation exercises that expose participants to situations that will help them get outside themselves, free to touch the truth that is camouflaged by the everyday.
SESSION OUTLINE
Week 1: Making contact
Focus on finding out about others and make oneself known. Participants work in pairs with the mirror exercise to break down barriers. With contact made and barriers lowered, the stage exercise starts to develop an understanding of space.
Week 2: The voice, concentration, acting with objects
Using and controlling the voice is a crucial part of acting. Here, participants work as a group to create harmony through variations in sound and the use of the voice, then move on to exercises in concentration and working with objects – for example, dancing with a chair as a partner.
Week 3: Liberation exercises
The laughter exercise allows work on various registers (sad, happy, nervous etc.) and the vocal range, while at the same time bringing about the natural freedom that comes from amusement. Similarly, the exercise of the word uses a word, pronounced with different intonations to navigate from one emotion to another.
Week 4: Break
In order to allow participants to absorb all the information to which they have been exposed, we will take a one-week break.
Weeks 5, 6 and 7: Acting for the camera
Upon our return, we will focus solely on improvisation exercises that I will shoot, which will allow me to gauge the degree of each participant’s assimilation of the exercises during the earlier period of the workshop, and to have them confront their own image. This will allow them to judge their performances, and to see the difference between the intentions they might have in the exercises and what appears onscreen.
Email youth@dohafilminstitute.com for further inquiries.
Age groups: 12 to 16 years old
Price: 500 QAR
Dates: The workshop runs from 27 March through 10 May.
The sessions will be held from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Week 1: Monday March 27th - Wednesday March 29th
Week 2: Monday April 3rd - Wednesday April 5th
Week 3: Monday April 10th - Wednesday April 12th
Week 4: BREAK
Week 5: Monday April 24th - Wednesday April 26th
Week 6: Monday May 1st - Wednesday May 3rd
Week 7: Monday May 8th - Wednesday May 10th
How do we access creativity? How we manage to forget who we are and project ourselves into the skin of another person? These are some of the questions that inform this workshop.
The class teaches acting through improvisation, which encourages the students to play in public without a predefined text or prior direction. Improvisation helps students develop creativity and listening skills, inspiring them to imagine and to share.
Improvisation also makes the actor conscious of the body and its movements. For this reason, the first half hour of each session is dedicated to body work, relaxation, breathing peripheral balance and breathing.
The remainder of each session focuses on to individual and group improvisation exercises that expose participants to situations that will help them get outside themselves, free to touch the truth that is camouflaged by the everyday.
SESSION OUTLINE
Week 1: Making contact
Focus on finding out about others and make oneself known. Participants work in pairs with the mirror exercise to break down barriers. With contact made and barriers lowered, the stage exercise starts to develop an understanding of space.
Week 2: The voice, concentration, acting with objects
Using and controlling the voice is a crucial part of acting. Here, participants work as a group to create harmony through variations in sound and the use of the voice, then move on to exercises in concentration and working with objects – for example, dancing with a chair as a partner.
Week 3: Liberation exercises
The laughter exercise allows work on various registers (sad, happy, nervous etc.) and the vocal range, while at the same time bringing about the natural freedom that comes from amusement. Similarly, the exercise of the word uses a word, pronounced with different intonations to navigate from one emotion to another.
Week 4: Break
In order to allow participants to absorb all the information to which they have been exposed, we will take a one-week break.
Weeks 5, 6 and 7: Acting for the camera
Upon our return, we will focus solely on improvisation exercises that I will shoot, which will allow me to gauge the degree of each participant’s assimilation of the exercises during the earlier period of the workshop, and to have them confront their own image. This will allow them to judge their performances, and to see the difference between the intentions they might have in the exercises and what appears onscreen.
Email youth@dohafilminstitute.com for further inquiries.