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Learn the essential acting techniques and improve your performance skills in NYC with classes that cover character development, scene study, and improvisation.

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Scene Study - Exploring the Primary Stages Season

Primary Stages ESPA @ 307 W 38th St, New York, NY

Admissions Qualifications Successful candidates must participate in and pass an audition before registering for this program, schedule an audition at the "Request Info" submission above. All registrations are subject to approval by The Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts. In this new 10-week class, you will work on scenes by the 2018/19 Primary Stages Season playwrights. The Primary Stages Artistic Team (Casey Childs, Founder; Andrew...

(11) All levels 18 and older
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$560

10 sessions

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Alexander Technique Spring Intensive

Balance Arts Center @ 151 W 30th St, New York, NY

2-Day Intensive in the Alexander Technique! Join us for a weekend intensive to refresh and deepen your understanding and embodiment of the Alexander Technique. The Balance Arts Center faculty will guide you to a nuanced understanding of how the AT process as taught at the BAC can help you enhance every aspect of your life and art form. Spring Intensive Features:  Online & In-Person Participation Options Daily Masterclass with Ann...

(26) All levels 18 and older
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$130
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Theatrical Clown Intensive: One Week

The Barrow Group Acting School @ 312 W 36th St, New York, NY

Theatrical clown teaches us many things about ourselves as performers: how to begin from a place of simple yet energized presence, how to sustain the pleasure of playing in the moment, how to mine the power of doing one thing at a time, and above all, clown helps us accept our own unique ridiculousness, which in turn may transform our habits of restriction into skills of open expression. The study of theatrical clown teaches us many things about...

(66) All levels 18 and older
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$345

5 sessions

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Transformation Workshop

The Barrow Group Acting School @ 520 8th Avenue, New York, NY

In our Transformation Workshop with Lee Brock, actors advance their skill set and explore tools to transform a character with selected monologues and scenes. The class begins with an overview of what transformation work is, when to use it, and examples of actors using it effectively in their storytelling. The workshop breaks down how to get started, observing people as research, and applying simple physical adjustments that can be made to transform...

(66) Advanced 18 and older
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$495

10 sessions

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Trial Essentials Class 101

Acting School for Film and Television @ 150 West 46th St, New York, NY

If you are simply interested in getting a small dose of what happens in film acting, and wish to try a single class before committing to a course of study, we offer a trial class of our Essentials of Film Acting Course. Almost every entering student should start with this class, even those with substantial theatrical backgrounds. The classes teach acting for camera - film and television - all classes are on camera and you review your work at the...

(62) All levels 12 and older
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$150
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Advanced Scene Study 1

Primary Stages ESPA @ 307 W 38th St, New York, NY

Admissions Qualifications: Successful candidates must participate in and pass an audition before registering for this program. Please schedule your audition at the "Request Info" submission above. All registrations are subject to approval by The Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts. This class offers a select group of actors an even more rigorous curriculum than our regular Scene Study class. Over ten weeks, you will work in pairs on...

(11) Advanced 18 and older
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$580

10 sessions

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Combining Alexander Technique and Qigong

New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY

The Alexander Technique is a gentle but powerfully effective movement education method that teaches us how to avoid unnecessary tension in our posture and movements to achieve enhanced efficiency, grace and poise, not just in our physical expression but in every aspect of our lives. And qigong (“life energy cultivation”) exercises are ancient, time-tested Chinese self-cultivation techniques that can dramatically boost our health and well-being....

(299) All levels 18 and older
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Shakespeare and the Battle of the Sexes

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Shakespeare’s female characters often challenge the 16th century patriarchal ideal of silent and subservient womanhood. Women of the time were expected to be chaste, silent and obedient, yet many of Shakespeare’s heroines push back against attempts to silence them. This course will include discussion of Kate and The Taming of the Shrew, the “merry war” of wits between Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, and the conflicted,...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$160

6 sessions

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Solo Show Workshop 1: Writing

The Barrow Group Acting School @ 520 8th Avenue, New York, NY

Learn how to craft and write your solo show in this intensive workshop at The Barrow Group Acting School. Develop your script analysis and story structure skills, receive feedback and dramaturgy support, and share a fully formed draft of your show excerpt. Whether you already have a show written or just an idea, this workshop will help you take your solo performance to the next level.

(66) All levels 18 and older
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$295

4 sessions

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Shakespearean Monologues with Geoffrey Owens

Primary Stages ESPA @ 307 W 38th St, New York, NY

The right Shakespearean monologue is key to showcasing your artistic strengths and facility with language in an audition. Spend two days with renowned classical actor and director Geoffrey Owens expressing yourself and deepening your connection to the text. This workshop might be for you if you: Need help finding a new Shakespearean monologue. Want to build beautiful, dynamic narrative arcs into your audition pieces. In this workshop you will:...

(11) All levels 18 and older
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$320

5 sessions

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The Contemporary Monologue

Primary Stages ESPA @ 307 W 38th St, New York, NY

Admissions Qualifications Successful candidates must participate in and pass an audition before registering for this program, schedule an audition at the "Request Info" submission above. All registrations are subject to approval by The Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts. Having the right monologue is key to showcasing your abilities as an actor and ultimately getting hired. Too often, though, actors choose material that undermines...

(11) All levels 18 and older
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$320

5 sessions

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On-Camera 2-Week Scene Study with Danny Gordon

Acting & Voice Studios @ 213 W 35th St, New York, NY

On-Camera 2-Week Scene Study & Audition Technique Intensive with Top LA Casting Professional in NYC! Top LA Casting Professional, Danny Gordon is coming to NYC and will be teaching a first time ever In-Person Scene Study and Audition Technique Intensive On-Camera!  This is a scene study class for actors 16 years old and up. This will be an in-person class where actors will get to perform on-camera, tape their scenes and watch their tapes...

(24) Beginner 16 and older
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$249

3 sessions

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Location Location Location-How to Find Your Environment

ANDTheatre Company @ 244 W 54th St, New York, NY

This workshop will focus on The WHERE of the scene. An element that often gets taken for granted in scenework. Let's take time to organically build locations from the floor up. In taking our time, what information do we learn about the WHO & the WHY? Often an expected call is made by the improvisor, "Where are we?" An answer is heard from an audience member, "A Pet Shop," "A Gazebo," "An Elevator." Then a scene is played... BUT what if the...

(149) All levels 19 and older
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Intensive: Machinal

Primary Stages ESPA @ 307 W 38th St, New York, NY

For actors and directors, some of the most gratifying work happens in the rehearsal room. In this intensive, director Kimberly Senior will lead you through the first week of a rehearsal process for Machinal by Sophie Treadwell.  This workshop might be for you if you:  Are an actor or a director who wants to focus in on the process, not the final product.  Want to round out 2019 by challenging yourself with an intensive rehearsal...

(11) All levels 18 and older
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$280

4 sessions

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Beginning/Intermediate Technique

Penny Templeton Studio @ 344 W 38th St, New York, NY

Important: This class is not for recreational class takers, but is intended for professionals who are pursuing a career in acting. Please consider that before enrolling. This class is ideal for the new actor who wants to explore the possibilities of a career in acting as well as the intermediate actor who wants to strengthen their grasp of the fundamental acting techniques necessary to succeed. This class is designed to build the actor’s...

Beginner 18 and older
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$395

7 sessions

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On-Camera Cold Reads & Commercial Technique

Actors Technique NY Kids & Teens @ 500 8th Ave, New York, NY

Our first class will start with a "mock" audition, where you will read copy cold and be given adjustments and personalized feedback through the eyes of a commercial casting director.  Commercials are a great entry point for many actors. In fact, you'll probably have many more commercial auditions in your career than you will for legit TV/Film solely by virtue of the fact that there are so many more products, services and advertisers who want...

(7) Beginner 7 and older
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Linklater Meets Meisner

Linklater Center @ 244 West 54th St, New York, NY

The workshop will focus on freeing the instrument through Linklater voice work, while simultaneously freeing the actor through the Meisner technique. Linklater Meets Meisner will explore the symbiotic relationship between the work of Kristin Linklater and Sanford Meisner. Particular focus will be placed on the natural rhythm of impulse, breath, and response, and how that rhythm is the gateway to exciting spontaneity. By combining instinctive spontaneity...

(31) All levels 18 and older
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$180

2 sessions

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Shakespeare Scene Study

Rude Grooms @ 325 w 38th St., New York, NY

A four-week class in which each actor will explore a scene from a play either by Shakespeare, by another playwright of the time (i.e., Mary Wroth, Thomas Middleton, Mary Sidney, and Ben Jonson), or a play of any era which uses heightened text, direct address/audience interaction, and creating the world of the play through imagery and action as much or more than through technical design (i.e., the plays of Moliere, the plays of the Spanish Comedia,...

Intermediate 18 and older
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$345

4 sessions

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Therapeutic Scene Study

NY Creative Arts Therapists @ 190 N 10th St, Brooklyn, NY

Using Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie, this therapeutic scene study group invites adults to explore creative problem solving, relationships, and emotional expression through drama therapy. Each week, the group will read and act in scenes from the play, rehearse new roles and build relationships through drama. Each group participant will play different roles, as well as engage in the group process as an active audience member....

(3) All levels 18 and older
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$100

9 sessions

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Stage Combat Workshop

The Barrow Group Acting School @ 520 8th Avenue, New York, NY

Learn safe techniques for executing violence on stage. This workshop will concentrate on fundamentals of safety, while teaching students how to fall, punch, slap, kick, wrestle. Taught by Ron Piretti – Fight Director for the Broadway productions of “West Side Story”, “In the Heights”, “The Miracle Worker” and fight supervisor for “Bengal Tiger at the Bagdad Zoo”.

(66) All levels 18 and older
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$175

2 sessions

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