Training for Warriors
1st trimester
Meisner Technique with Anna Sabaté
The warrior training is a more in-depth approach to the Meisner Technique tools for professional actors, combined with the Sabaté Method© for self-awareness work. It builds upon what was learned and integrated during the first trimester of the trainer training, where we learned to truly live under imaginary circumstances from the character’s perspective on the stage.
We will create a magical space where we become creators of our own reality, eager to learn how to live and continue delving into the depths of human emotions. It’s a complete exercise in trust, dedication, teamwork, listening, and leaps of faith.
The duration of the training will be tailored to the individual circumstances of each student, allowing them to choose between 3, 6, or 9 months. Depending on the number of students and the chosen duration, there may be the opportunity to have a public performance.
2nd Trimester
Authentic Movement with Simona Quartucci
Authentic movement allows for a deep connection with that inner self that needs to be expressed and that takes shape through movement, voice, sound and the encounter with the other. A voluntary surrender to emptiness and not knowing what invites the unconscious to manifest. A space of presence and relationship between directing movement and letting ourselves be moved by the impulses that arise from our sensations, thoughts, images, associations, emotions, feelings and the unknown.
It is a practice that is based on the relationship established between the person who moves with his eyes closed and the Witness who, with his eyes open, in stillness-silence and with his attention and gaze focused on the person who moves, is listening to what is moving internally; to their own impulses, associations, projections. When he perceives himself present or absent, distracted, disconnected or concentrated.
In this experience of being seen and seeing the other, without being judged or judged, we have the opportunity to re-visit and update our primordial experience with the gaze, thus facilitating our relationship with it, which is so important in our Life. Thus expanding the perception of one’s own interior and exterior space to find greater freedom, openness, spaciousness and connection.
The written and spoken word captures experience. The use of poetic and symbolic metaphor favors, beyond logic and linear thinking, the expansion of the capacity for imagination and creativity.
In inhabiting one’s own body, the unconscious becomes conscious, moves and transforms the relationship between surrender and will, inner and outer world, individual and collective, body and soul.
3r Trimester
Preparation for the scene and construction of characters with Míriam Escurriola
The interpreter as an athlete of emotions. The performer as a being where the mind-body-voice connection is an open channel for creation, research and training for the construction of the character and scenes.
Technical and interpretive body tools are developed and systematized based on forms of expression with the body (placement, gesture and movement), psychomotor physical qualities of coordination (laterality, fixed points, weight changes, amplitudes, body axes, directions, volumes), conditional physical qualities (balance, sense of rhythm and time, body memory, flexibility, body-object relationship, energy)
Key principles are applied through the body and movement, exploring a range of processes such as the training line of Grotowski and Eugenio Barba, the imaginary in the body from Lecoq pedagogy or Laban‘s efforts to construct qualities of movement and emotions.
The group is shown the rehearsed material, demonstrating the application of what is technically and emotionally relevant.
Outline of the session, where the scenes from the first trimester will be worked on with Anna Sabaté:
• Warm-up protocols to enhance listening, concentration and unblocking.
• Exploration of technical tools.
• Application of tools to character creation and scene circumstances.
• Work samples and joint observation to encourage proprioception and gaze
(*) This course is only open to students who have completed the third year of Theater and Consciousness©, even if they have not obtained the graduation certificate.
Objectives
- Strengthen the actor’s self-confidence and self-esteem to dare to delve into their artistic and creative potential.
- Body awareness and use focused on active listening and the release of fully organic impulses.
- Recognize and transmute the cultural masks that prevent us from fully living through sensory openness to the here and now and contact with our internal strength and abilities.
- Enter into connection with oneself in an intimate and subtle way, transcending the actor’s ego to enter the imaginary world that links us to our character.
- Develop the ability to listen, attend, be present, and concentrate to live in the present, in the here and now.
- Enhance imagination, intuition, and creative unconscious.
- Transform personal resistances into positive mental attitudes.
- Learn to “live truthfully under imaginary circumstances”, that is, from the impulses of the characters in the imaginary circumstances set by the text.
Contents
- Exercises for relaxation, concentration, attention, and centering.
- Oral expression: the connection between thought, emotion, body, and voice.
- Questioning and flexibilizing belief systems that hinder the flow in performance and block the ability to embody the character’s life.
- Active listening and its impact on our behavior.
- The repetition technique as the foundation of Meisner Technique to free the actor from habits or customs that prevent them from acting freely from impulses.
- Rediscovering one’s own instinct and allowing it to manifest freely through each character the actor portrays.
- Emotional preparation to arrive emotionally full and activated on stage.
- The relationship to approach imaginary circumstances created through the connection with the other.
- Developing the character by delving into the threshold of our unconscious to expand our acting range through the expression of our inner world, using texts and monologues proposed by the students.
Schedule and prices
Targeted
To all those who have completed the 3 levels of Theater and Consciousness©
Date
From October 8 2024 to April 1rst, 2025
Schedule
Tuesdays from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM.
Price Pack 9 months - 900€ / Pack 6 months - €620 / Pack 3 months - €340
Cancellation Policy
. In case of cancellation up to 30 days before the start of the training, the course fee will be refunded, except for the registration deposit.
. In case of cancellation up to 15 days before starting the training, 50% of the course will be refunded, except for the registration deposit.
. In case of cancellation within 15 days before starting the training, or once it has started, the amount paid will NOT be refunded.
