LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company’s Center for Actor Training presents Presence, Power, and Freedom in Movement online this March – a four-week, online workshop beginning Tuesday, March 12.
Led by Shakespeare & Company’s Director of Training Sheila Bandyopadhyay, this workshop combines a variety of Eastern and Western somatic practices including Pure Movement (Swings), the Alexander Technique, yogic philosophy, and mindful awareness of self, Presence, Power, and Freedom in Movement guides participants through movement sequences and activities to deepen their connection to sensation, imagination, and breath, and apply those to speaking and monologues.
Bandyopadhyay explained that these exercises are designed to facilitate greater freedom of expression and ease in the body.
“This workshop is an opportunity to dive into the experience of embodied presence both for your work as an actor and as a technique for living,” she said. “We all deal with tension and negative beliefs about our physical bodies. That can get in the way of being and feeling empowered in our performance work.”
Classes will meet on Tuesdays, March 12, 19, and 26, and April 2 at 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. EST. Previous Movement experience is not required to enroll, and all levels are welcome. Classes meet via Zoom, and tuition is $150. Scholarships are available for BIPOC artists; alumni and union discounts are also available.
For more information or to apply, visit shakespeare.org, or call 413.637.1199, ext. 114.
Shakespeare & Company’s Center For Actor Training
The aesthetic of Shakespeare & Company was created within the training devised by Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer and a cadre of expert teachers. It is through these programs that the aesthetic is continually investigated, redefined, and reinvigorated, and that welcomes actors, directors, writers, and teachers from all over the world to work with the Company’s faculty. Through the Center for Actor Training, Shakespeare & Company’s performance artists, education artists, and artist managers develop a common artistic vocabulary and a coherent approach to performing Shakespeare.
