Labor is Art: An Acting Intensive with Seth Bockley
@sethboke 1/31 & 2/1, 12-5pm,
$200, or $175 for current students
email
[email protected] to register
*classes are non refundable / non transferable*
Led by writer/director/adapter Seth Bockley
@sethboke this two-day acting intensive will focus on gesture, embodiment, physical improvisation, movement, and the actor’s imagination. The course will challenge performers to increase their physical and vocal expressiveness, and integrate personal embodied memories into character study. Don’t miss this chance to study with one of the city’s most accomplished and imaginative directors. Get ready to play and take risks as you gain tools for expression, improvisation, and living truthfully inside a character.
Day 1
Create partner exercises based on work/identity. How does your body remember labor and patterns of movement associated with jobs you have held? How has work shaped you? Next, apply the discoveries to a monologue (classical or early 20th century— Williams, O’Neill, etc).
Day 2
Create etudes that tell the life story of the character you are studying through their work and work history and apply these etudes to the monologue with an eye to audition context (on camera / in person).
ABOUT SETH BOCKLEY:
@sethboke is a director, playwright and producer based in Brooklyn. With roots in Chicago, and a career spanning
genres and styles, he specializes in literary adaptation, physical theater and site-responsive works. Directing credits include NYT Critics’ Picks Wilderness and Basetrack Live with En Garde Arts; King Gilgamesh (Under The Radar; Soulpepper Theatre); 2666 (with Robert Falls, from the novel by Roberto Bolaño) and adaptations from stories by George Saunders: Jon and CommComm; the site-specific Utopian epic More Perfect Places; Lauren Yee’s Samsara and Philip Dawkins’ Failure: A Love Story; Jason Grote’s Civilization (all you can eat) and 1001; the clown play Guerra, with Mexico City-based troupe La Piara (toured Mexico, Colombia, and the U.S.). Current projects include a musical about chatbots of the dead and a road-trip stoner theater/film hybrid Don Quixote. More at sethbockley.com
