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MEISNER INTERMEDIATE  CLASS

with guest artists
Jessica Greco & Patrice Goodman

Jessica Greco

Once students have mastered the Beginners program, they are ready to move on to the Intermediate Level. Here we introduce the concept of "the exercise" and "the knock at the door." Students will spend the beginning of class warming up through repetition. Then they will move onto "the knock," where one actor must come to the door with a grounded reason to be there. "The exercise" is a nearly impossible task with emotional significance and an urgency to be completed. The actor who answers "the knock" provides "the exercise". From that moment on, they repeat.

Building on the foundation provided by The Repetition, we add an obstacle that both actors must deal with while simultaneously maintaining contact. It requires focus, vulnerability, and precise listening. It is the step before we introduce text.

Class runs twice per week, over five weekends, and students will be invited based on their capacity.

Meisner Technique (Intermediate Class) 
Fridays 7-10:30pm & Sundays 10am-1:30pm
Feb 7-March 16  (10 classes over five weeks)

Price:  $525+HST

(5% discount for ACTRA, SAG, and CAEA members)
[no classes Family Day long weekend; also no class on
Fri, Mar 14, which has been moved to
Sat, Mar 15 at 7pm]

THE MEISNER TECHNIQUE

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Connected. Impulsive. Reacting. Listening. Truthful. In the moment. Actors use these words to praise a good performance, but the question is: how do we get there?

 

From 1935 to 1990, Sanford Meisner was an esteemed acting teacher who founded the renowned NYC acting school The Neighbourhood Playhouse.  There he created The Meisner Technique, and an incredibly simple, yet riveting acting exercise called The Repetition. Specifically designed to enhance the key skills of listening and answering another human being fully. In this class, you will repeat with your classmates, embodying the art of “Living truthfully under the imaginary circumstances.”

 

This class happens in the moment, it cultivates the magic of acting by focusing on behaviour and how that translates out into the world or to another person. The approach puts you in your body, out of your head, and focused on the other actor. Every time you get up to work, (which is twice a class, every class) it will feel vulnerable and scary and exciting and unpredictable. This technique is accessible to all experience levels. Like going to the gym, this technique will keep your instrument alive and spontaneous and strong. Though the class is a Beginner Meisner class, more seasoned artists will find lots to work with here. Ultimately the class is about listening and answering, moment to moment in an authentic way. Grounded and hooked on human connection.

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This technique has garnered much success — 37 of Meisner’s students won or were nominated for Academy Awards. Meisner-trained actors include Tom Cruise, Sandra Bullock, Chadwick Boseman, Diane Keaton, Allison Janney, James Gandolfini, Timothée Chalamet, Sam Rockwell, Jeff Bridges, Jim Carrey,Tatiana Maslany, Krysten Ritter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and so many more.

Contact

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call 416-335-7527

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Toronto, Ontario  M6J 2R9

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