How to play everything and have fun doing it.
WEEKEND WORKSHOP
This class is for improvisers, actors, and storytellers. You will be guided in a safe way in each scene to take the time to create.
Want to expand your character acting repertoire in improv? This weekend workshop will change the way you think about characters and how you can create them on the spot. Learn the tools to build a repertoire of new characters through body, voice and emotional work. We will start with voice and breath and slowly work our way into the body to create strong new personalities and worlds. Physically you will learn how to take over the space and empower your skills to be more watchable. You will learn the building blocks of mime work and learn how to create your own unique world. In this fun and safe environment you will be pushed into emotional work that you can layer onto any character and space object work to make your scenes more believable and colorful.
What you will learn:
How to use your mouth, breath, and tones to help you make sound effects. Which is the foundation of creating unique characters.
The Laban Technique. How to use it to create characters from Scratch.
The mirror technique. How to watch someone and mimic the way their movement and how they talk.
We will steal from the World of the wild kingdom of animals. How mimicking their traits and layering them with the Laban Technique to bring new life to the stage.
Buffoonery. The art of making a character bigger than life. We will step into the danger zones of characters that are not shackled by the norms of society.
Meisner Technique. We will touch on this technique and how to use it in improv to get us into emotional and honest work as an Actor.
Mime technique to enhance your space object work and your physical grace on stage.
World building by showing us what you see, as you paint the stage with your imagination.
Details:
This weekend workshop will be on July 13th and July 14th.
The class is at FMP1, Franz-Mehring-Platz 1, 10243 Berlin.
From 11-6 Saturday
11-4 on Sunday
This is a great opportunity to train your voice, body and emotions to help find a new way of building unforgettable characters. And will also change the way you improvise.
This course will be taught by me, Rob Rodgers (biography below), and costs 200 EUR. Early Bird special is 180 if paid before July 1st. payable to:
Robert Rodgers / Berliner Sparkasse / DE13 1005 0000 1068 0212 30 / BELADEBEXXX / Finanzamt & Steuernummer: Pankow 31, 495/00 232
Please email scratchtheater@gmail.com to let me know you have paid, as sometimes the payment can take a couple days to go through and I want to be sure you get your spot in the course! Also, let me know if there are any questions.
I’m looking forward to meeting you!
Robert
Biography: Robert Rodgers, founder and director
Robert is the founder of the Scratch Theater Improv School in Berlin and has trained players in a new way of performing, some new to improv and some looking for something different. A method based on emotion, rich characters, and narration that provokes the audience.
Scratch Theater was created in 1995 to explore long-form improv and to take it beyond what audiences have come to expect. Robert Rodgers trained at B.A.T.S in San Francisco as well as L.A.T.S in Los Angeles. He also trained under Rafe Chase from “3 For All” for years in the Bay Area and was part of the advanced training under “True Fiction Magazine” where he was guided under Barbara Scott, Regina Saisi, Tim Orr, Steven Kearin, and Rafe Chase. He has also trained under Keith Johnstone.
Taking his knowledge from improv theater, Robert also applied his knowledge of acting skills from where he was trained at A.C.T in San Francisco and also the S.F. Circus School where he studied movement, clowning and acrobatics. Robert has performed in repertory theaters, and a variety of circuses around the world, including Cirque Du Soleil. In 2005 Robert was asked to join L.A.T.S to perform and teach at the Amsterdam Improv Festival, which led him to return to teach both in Amsterdam and Paris numerous times. He then went on to direct many shows around the world where he used his improv skills, circus training and acting ability to actually create shows that inspire audiences to think differently about theater. His main focus has always been on how to bring forth the voice of each actor to rise above their own ego and lead everyone into stories that are imprinted in the audience’s memory.