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.
Age groups: 8 to 12 and 13 to 17 years old
The workshop runs from 10 October through 23 November. There are two two-hour sessions per week, on Monday and Wednesday evenings.
Sessions for 8- to 12-year-olds are held from 3:00 to 5:00 PM.
Sessions for 13- to 17-year-olds are held from 5:00 to 7:00 PM.
Week 1: 10 and 12 October
Week 2: 17 and 19 October
Week 3: 24 and 26 October
Week 4: Sessions on 31 October and 2 November are respectively rescheduled to 19 November, 3:00 to 7:00 PM, and 26 November, 3:00 to 5:00 PM.
Week 5: 7 and 9 November
Week 6: 14 and 16 November
Week 7: 21 and 23 November
Price
1,000.00 QAR for the seven-week workshop. There are two two-hour sessions per week.
SESSION OUTLINE
Week 1 and Week 2: 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 3 and Week 4: 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 5 and Week 6: 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 7: Improvisation and performance preparation
After a week’s break, during which participants will have time to absorb all the information the first sessions exposed them to, we focus on improvisation exercises, including the exercise of the lift, in which participants imagine how they would behave if stuck in an elevator.
Email youth@dohafilminstitute.com for further inquiries.
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.
Age groups: 8 to 12 and 13 to 17 years old
The workshop runs from 10 October through 23 November. There are two two-hour sessions per week, on Monday and Wednesday evenings.
Sessions for 8- to 12-year-olds are held from 3:00 to 5:00 PM.
Sessions for 13- to 17-year-olds are held from 5:00 to 7:00 PM.
Week 1: 10 and 12 October
Week 2: 17 and 19 October
Week 3: 24 and 26 October
Week 4: Sessions on 31 October and 2 November are respectively rescheduled to 19 November, 3:00 to 7:00 PM, and 26 November, 3:00 to 5:00 PM.
Week 5: 7 and 9 November
Week 6: 14 and 16 November
Week 7: 21 and 23 November
Price
1,000.00 QAR for the seven-week workshop. There are two two-hour sessions per week.
SESSION OUTLINE
Week 1 and Week 2: 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 3 and Week 4: 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 5 and Week 6: 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 7: Improvisation and performance preparation
After a week’s break, during which participants will have time to absorb all the information the first sessions exposed them to, we focus on improvisation exercises, including the exercise of the lift, in which participants imagine how they would behave if stuck in an elevator.
Email youth@dohafilminstitute.com for further inquiries.