{"id":1868,"date":"2016-01-24T15:44:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T13:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2016-02-02T18:51:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T16:51:48","slug":"international-meisner-training-for-sa-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2016\/01\/24\/international-meisner-training-for-sa-actors\/","title":{"rendered":"International Meisner Training For SA Actors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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South African actor Vanessa Zachos and the PopArt Centre for Performing Arts are proud to present a Meisner\u00a0Technique Intensive workshop with Raymond T. Williams (Actor and teacher at James Franco\u2019s New York Studio 4) in\u00a0Johannesburg and Cape Town.<\/p>\n

Raymond is a working actor and a teacher at James Franco\u2019s acting school in New York, Studio 4 and brings a wealth\u00a0of experience to South Africa. He studied and performed for eight years under Jeff Goldblum and as an actor has\u00a0worked with Academy winners such as Halle Berry in Their Eyes Were Watching God, Monique in Phat Girlz and on\u00a0numerous films with Actor\/Director James Franco (Sal, The Long Home, The Aderall Diaries). He has also directed a\u00a0film at Studio4.<\/p>\n

Actors will learn to work in the moment from their own impulses and feelings and how to connect fully to the other\u00a0actors in a scene by learning to work off what the other actor does. Raymond will explain the basis for emotional\u00a0preparation and a complete improvisationbased
\napproach to scene work with basic script analysis. Actors will touch
\non the deeper creative and interpretive elements of acting. Characterization, script analysis and many other advanced\u00a0acting issues can be discussed.<\/p>\n

Career advice and audition technique can be booked complimentary with SA actor Vanessa Zachos. Vanessa has\u00a0extensive experience in the British film industry working with directors. As an actor she has worked with Academy and\u00a0Bafta winning directors, Ron Howard in Rush and J. J. Abrams in Fringe and with leading actors Chris Hemsworth,\u00a0Anna Torv and Colin Salmon.<\/p>\n

The aim of this intensive workshop is to give local actors access to an international level of training in order to help\u00a0bridge the skills gap in South Africa. PopArt and Vanessa aim to offer regular training possibilities in the future.<\/p>\n

Johannesburg workshop venue: PopArt Theatre in Maboneng Precinct.
\nDate: Saturday 27th February 2016 Time: 9am 6pm.\u00a0Cost: R1800.00 (Minimum 8 hours of Meisner training).<\/p>\n

Cape Town workshop venue: The Alexander Bar Upstairs Theatre in association with PopUpstairs.\u00a0Dates: Tuesday 1st March and Wednesday 2nd March 2016 Times:1pm 5pm.\u00a0Cost is R1800.00 (Minimum 8 hours of
\nMeisner training). All levels will be catered for. The workshops are also suitable for Directors and Writers.<\/p>\n

For more details and to keep track of the times of the workshops please connect on Facebook:
\nwww.facebook.com\/events\/539467362876426\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Johannesburg Workshop: Book online, or email at popartjhb@gmail.com for EFT details:
\npopartcentre.co.za\/performingartscentre\/upcomingworkshops\/<\/a>
\nCape Town Workshop: Book Online alexanderbar.co.za\/showsupstairs\/<\/a><\/p>\n

More details on the tutors and venues:
\nRaymond T Williams : www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0931507\/<\/a>
\nStudio 4 : phwstudio4.com\/nyc\/staff\/raymondwilliams\/<\/a>
\nVanessa Zachos : www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2292071\/<\/a>
\nJohannesburg: PopArt Theatre: popartcentre.co.za\/<\/a>
\nCape Town: Alexander Bar Upstairs\/ PopUpstairs: alexanderbar.co.za\/showsupstairs\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Email for workshop enquiries: popartjhb@gmail.com<\/p>\n

About Meisner:<\/span><\/p>\n

Meisner developed this technique after working with Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler at the Group Theatre and while\u00a0working as head of the acting program at New York City’s Neighborhood Playhouse. He continued its refinement for\u00a0fifty years. In 1935, Sanford Meisner, one of the founding members of The Group Theatre (along with Stella Adler,\u00a0Bobby Lewis, Harold Clurman, and Lee Strasberg), joined the faculty of The Neighborhood Playhouse. Over the years,\u00a0he developed and refined what is now known as the Meisner Technique, a stepbystep\u00a0procedure of selfinvestigation\u00a0for the actor now globally recognized and among the foremost of modern acting techniques.Meisner believed that the
\nstudy of the actor\u2019s craft was rooted in acquiring a solid organic acting technique. It was a cornerstone of his teaching\u00a0that this learning process occur not in a theoretical, abstract manner, but in the practical give and take of the\u00a0classroom, where as he once said, \u201cthe students struggled to learn what I struggled to teach.\u201d Through that struggle\u00a0the gifted student, over time gradually begins to emerge solidly in his or her work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South African actor Vanessa Zachos and the PopArt Centre for Performing Arts are proud to present a Meisner\u00a0Technique Intensive workshop with Raymond T. Williams (Actor and teacher at James Franco\u2019s New York Studio 4) in\u00a0Johannesburg and Cape Town. Raymond is a working actor and a teacher at James Franco\u2019s acting school in New York, Studio… Continue reading International Meisner Training For SA Actors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workshops","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}