Studio Program: Forge Your Path

pata members get 20% off

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Think there's no time for art in your life? Think again. At Portland Actors Conservatory, you'll learn from working professional actors and directors at times that work with your schedule. Portland Actors Conservatory is a creative and supportive environment where you can brush up on your craft or pick up some new skills at one of the Northwest's most respected arts institutions. Weekly classes and weekend intensives make your dramatic turn doable.

As always, sign up for one class and get 10% off each additional class of equal or lesser value!

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Winter 2011 - Spring 2012

class descriptions

Acting: level one
Make a healthy place for drama in your life. Wake up your imagination, knock the kinks out of your body and get comfortable in front of a group by exploring acting fundamentals in a supportive environment. In Acting 1, you'll discover the basic building blocks of the acting process, including given circumstances, objective, obstacles and tactics. Cultivate awareness and flexibility while stretching your emotional wings. Bring it all together in scenework that will enliven and invigorate. 

Scene Study Intensive
Students will explore and apply beat analysis and text scoring in a realism scene. Focus will be place on connection to breath and voice with movement to connect the physical action with the psychological action. The class is designed to help actors respond in the moment to the text and their fellow actors.

voice and movement
Through skill presentation and extensive exercises (including the Alexander Technique and Cicely Berry's voice work), students will work with both poetic and naturalistic text and learn how to feel when the voice is working without interference. Vocally, students will work on breath support, projection, articulation, and resonance placement, learning how to release the particular dramatic energy of words. Movement work is based on Laban’s efforts with the view toward connecting with language through character.

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