HomeSchooling Playhouse : Personal Development Through Theatrical Techniques

From 152.61 £ /h

Title: HomeSchooling Playhouse: Personal Development through Theatrical Techniques

Target Age Groups:
- Young Explorers: Ages 6-9
- Pre-Teens: Ages 10-14

Format: Online sessions using video conferencing tools (e.g., Zoom, Google Meet)

Duration: Each workshop cycle runs for 8 weeks, with one 90-minute session per week.

Workshop Components:
1. Introduction and Warm-Up (15 minutes):
- Ice-breakers and simple physical warm-ups to promote comfort and energy.
- Breathing exercises to enhance vocal projection and reduce anxiety.

2. Theater Games (30 minutes):
- Age-appropriate games that foster creativity, teamwork, and improvisational skills.
- Examples include "Mime Relay" for Young Explorers, "Emotion Walk" for Pre-Teens, and "Status Shift" for Young Adults & Adults.

3. Focused Exploration (30 minutes):
- Young Explorers: Storytelling through acting and role-play.
- Pre-Teens: Character development and scene creation.

4. Text Breakdown and Character Analysis (15 minutes):
- Introduction to basic script analysis techniques.
- Group discussion to explore characters, motives, and themes within selected plays.

Educational Goals
- Creativity and Expression: Encourage creative thinking and self-expression through diverse theatrical methods.
- Social Skills: Enhance interpersonal skills and empathy through collaborative activities.
- Confidence Building: Improve public speaking and self-confidence by performing in front of peers.
- Cultural Awareness: Introduce diverse theatrical traditions and plays to broaden cultural understanding.

Extra information

### Resources Needed
- **Technology:** Access to a stable internet connection, a computer or tablet, and a webcam.
- **Materials:** Scripts, play excerpts, and creative props (which can be found at home).
- **Software:** Subscription to a reliable video conferencing platform that allows breakout rooms and interactive sessions.

Location

Online from Switzerland

About Me

I come highly recommended, backed by a diverse range of professional experiences. I earned my Bachelor of Arts graduate diploma from the National University of Theatre And Film Ion Luca Caragiale. I gained admission to the prestigious 1.5-year Lee Strasberg program in New York City, and I honed my skills at H.B. Studio in New York City as well. Additionally, I have been involved in various theatre and film productions in both state and private settings.

Furthermore, I've always harbored a personal curiosity for understanding how societies function globally. To gain insights and further develop my personal and professional life, I embraced the life of a digital nomad for several years.

I find great satisfaction in helping individuals improve their lives and achieve balance and happiness, whether they have already discovered their true passion or are still in the process of exploration. Witnessing people's personal and financial growth through participation in my personal development through theatrical technique programs brings me immense joy

Education

Gradduatet in the year of 2007 with a B.A. Theatre : National University of Theatre & Film Ion Luca Caragiale " , Lee Strasberg Admission ,B.H. Studio N.Y.C attendant .

Experience / Qualifications

Acting for theatre : Men and Mice directed by Ion Cojar ,Romeo and Juliet directed by Ion Carmazan .
Acting for film : "Capul de zimbru "directed by Lucian Pintilie , "Too Late " directed by Marian Farama , "La multi ani " directed by Napoleon Georgescu , "A second of life " directed by Ion Carmazan .

Age

Children (7-12 years old)

Teenagers (13-17 years old)

Student level

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Duration

120 minutes

The class is taught in

English

Skills

Acting

Filmmaking

Availability of a typical week

(GMT -05:00)

New York

Online via webcam

Mon

Tue

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Sun

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08-12

12-16

16-20

20-24

Digital Stages for Digital Nomads: Exploring Theater in the Virtual World

71.39 £ /h

Online Workshop Structure:

Frequency : Twice a week
Duration : 2-hour sessions over 4 weeks
Platform : Zoom, Google Meet, or another robust video conferencing tool that supports breakout rooms and interactive features

Weekly Schedule:

Week 1: Introduction & Character Analysis
Session 1 :
- Ice Breakers and Introduction Games to create a sense of community.
- Overview of the workshop goals and the specific play to be studied.
- Session 2 :
- Script Breakdown: Participants analyze the play's themes and characters.
- Assigning characters and scenes for deeper study.

Week 2: Emotional Exploration & Scene Work
- Session 3 :
- Emotion Workshops: Exercises to explore and express complex emotions.
- Techniques for effective online acting and presence.
- Session 4:
- Scene Rehearsal: Participants perform scenes in small groups (breakout rooms).
- Group feedback and discussion on character development and interaction.

Week 3: Performance Techniques & Deepening Understanding**
- Session 5 :
- Advanced Character Development: Digging deeper into each character's motivation and background.
- Voice and Speech Workshops: Focus on clarity and emotional expression.
- Session 6 :
- Full Scene Run-throughs: Putting together scenes with transitions and virtual stage directions.
- Technical Setup Review: Ensuring everyone’s video and audio setup enhances their performance.

Week 4: Dress Rehearsal and Final Performance
- Session 7 :
- Dress Rehearsal: Runing the entire piece with feedback.
- Technical adjustments and performance tips for virtual presentation.
- Session 8 :
- Final Performance: Showcasing the entire play or selected scenes to an invited online audience.
- Post-performance Reflection: Sharing experiences and discuss the emotional impact and personal growth.

Contemporary Plays:
Given the constraints and opportunities of an online format, here are some plays with strong characters and engaging dialogue that we can work with :
1. "Love and Information" by Caryl Churchill - Features over 100 characters in brief but poignant vignettes, ideal for exploring different roles.
2. "Almost, Maine" by John Cariani - Composed of several short plays that explore love and loss, which can be effectively executed by actors in different locations.
3. "Gruesome Playground Injuries" by Rajiv Joseph - Follows two characters over 30 years, allowing deep character study with minimal staging.
4. "The Shape of Things" by Neil LaBute - Revolves around themes of art, manipulation, and relationships, suitable for intimate online portrayal.
5. "This Random World" by Steven Dietz - Explores the random intersections of a group of people, highlighting the serendipity and secrecy of life.

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Singers, singers, a professional coach to help you perform on stage or prepare for a casting, contest or recording. . Also for the staging of shows: song, theater, sketches. Use the services of a professional to progress quickly. Help and advice for creating texts and compositions. For young people and adults.
Internships at home (all of Switzerland, neighboring France, Paris) or at home in St. Croix (Switzerland) in a very pleasant working environment.

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These sessions allow the development of skills and knowledge of the trade, with the game facing the camera, familiarization with the audiovisual environment and the camera tool, in the art of acting.

Your inventiveness and your uniqueness being at the center of your training, it is a question of dwelling on the objective criteria, such as the voice, the use of the body, the relationship with the partner, the capacity to occupy the space. But it is also the singularity and the commitment that are decisive.

The objective of this training is to be able to:

- Analyze and dissect a text
- Create, develop and embody a character
- Understand the artistic and technical writings of a film or a play
- Create, cultivate and develop one's artistic identity and singularity

(...)

Through simulations and role-playing, the association between theory and practice makes it possible to achieve its objectives.

PLACES :
- Locations: Geneva - Lausanne - Friborg - Neuchâtel - Montreux - Basel - Sion - Sierre - Morges - Bienne. But currently and until further notice, only by videoconference in accordance with national recommendations on Covid.

These sessions, for which you have asked me, also seem to be perfectly unanimous since they arouse a certain enthusiasm (and a certain enthusiasm). Indeed, they have the advantage of face-to-face sessions (ex: quality of the interaction), without its disadvantages (ex: loss of travel time) with additional advantages (ex: the entire session transcribed in writing on the chat). That is why, at your request, I continue to offer this option.
- As other people do regularly, you can also please your loved ones by offering gift vouchers available all year round.

THE TRAINER
From a Grande Ecole post-preparatory class in France & Ivy League University in the United States, our teacher has specialized and has worked for more than 14 years in the field, in international establishments, intervening in forums and conferences.

CONTACT / PROGRAM
A la carte program: evaluated and adapted to each need.

Lawrence

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I'm a former New York City voice teacher/coach, professional singer and an award winning composer who has relocated to Berlin. I've taught with the most reputable children's musical theatre organizations in NYC with students of all ages as well as private students and I've worked with Broadway stars such as Laura Osnes, Karen Mason and Ron Bohmer, who have also recorded my music, and I'm excited to bring my 20 yrs of teaching experience to Berlin! I teach songwriting as well, if that is something you're interested in.

I'm a classically trained singer who performed with the San Francisco Opera and other companies both in opera and musical theatre for many years. Though I specialize now in musical theatre, I am happy and comfortable teaching you to sing in whatever style you prefer. The basics are the same! In our lessons, we will work on breath, correct vowel pronunciation, placement, diction, etc... as well as getting rid of the tension and habits that keep us from singing freely and beautifully. We will also work on the musical and dramatic aspects of the material we choose together, so that you will feel comfortable at an audition or a performance. And I keep lessons fun so that you can both learn and progress each week AND enjoy yourself!

Whether just starting out or a professional who needs help working on an audition or role, I can help you reach your goals!

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Classes, choreography and staging! in person or virtually

Are you going home and want to do something special? Let's do it together, whether it's a dance, a performance, or whatever you want—alone, with your partner, family, bridesmaids, or whoever you want. There are two options: I'll teach you how to dance the genre you're going to dance plus the choreography, or I'll just teach you the choreography. It's up to you.

The cost of creating choreographies depends on their duration (in addition to the cost of the class and/or rehearsal).

All ages and levels, don't wait any longer!

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NL

Hello, I am Kyra. I have both an artistic and educational master in drama at LUCA School of Arts. In addition, I sometimes give acting coaching as a teacher at the drama department of LUCA School of Arts.

I offer two things:

1) Basic camera acting course (Beginner/Intermediate):
How do I behave in front of the camera? What is the difference between acting in a film and acting on stage?
What should I look out for? What are the secrets of castings? And what should I know?

Using a fictional casting, we will investigate together how you come across on screen. We will analyze a scene and work with different camera techniques such as applying different image formats, listening, reacting and thinking on screen so that you can confidently take the (next) step in the world of camera acting.

2) Game coaching in preparation for an audition or shooting day (Beginner/intermediate/advanced):

I coach you in preparing a monologue/scene for an audition or a shooting day.

I am happy to act as a guide for your first steps in the world of (on-camera) acting and auditioning.

SCARY

Hello, I am Kyra. I have both an artistic and an educational master in drama at LUCA School of Arts. In addition, I sometimes give acting coaching as a teacher at the drama department of LUCA School of Arts.

I offer two things:

1) Basic camera acting course (Beginner/Intermediate):
How do I act for the movie camera? What's the difference between acting in a movie or acting on stage?
What should I pay attention to? What are the secrets of doing castings? And what do I need to know?

Together we will investigate how you come across on screen based on a fictitious casting. We will analyze a scene and work with different camera techniques such as applying different image sizes, listening, reacting and thinking on screen so that you can confidently take the (next) step in the world of screen acting.

2) Acting coaching in preparation for an audition or shooting day (Beginner/intermediate/advanced):

I coach you in preparing a monologue/scene for an audition or shooting day.

I love to be your guide for your first steps into the world of (camera) acting and auditioning.

Marta

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Voice is one of the most important channels of communication for human beings. Starting from breathing and vocal training we will explore together the potential of your voice in singing and speaking.

We will certainly start with breathing and training our body to connect body and voice.
Come on and join me!

Camille

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✓ Improvisation is the art of composing within the framework of a role play, without being overplayed so as not to lose credibility, by taking pleasure and appearing convinced (because communication does not consist, for example, of having confidence, but of appearing confident). It helps with a wide range of skills (imagination, emotional faculties, physical expressiveness, vocal projection, clarity of speech, interpretation, improvisation, observation, emulation, stage combat...) to make public speaking, communication , the theatricalization enhanced by the stage space and the play of the actor - improviser.

✓ Your inventiveness, singularity, commitment and signature being at the center of this training, it is about giving you the techniques to improvise, create, stage, while showing confidence and conviction to your interlocutors, in the private sphere or of the professional.

✓ So how can you also confront your shyness or lack of (relative) self-confidence by surpassing yourself by moving forward?
➤ Express yourself with your body, your emotions, your ideas to mobilize your abilities and your creative energy
➤ Explore your path to personal expression in complete freedom and security by overcoming your fears of expressing yourself in public
➤ Activate flexibility of mind, particularly by practicing active listening
➤ Develop your creativity and imagination while overcoming your shyness, developing your speaking, listening and responding skills
➤ Anchor lasting resources such as letting go, leaving one's comfort zone thanks to a caring framework and personalized modules/exercises

In application: For example, awareness raising and introduction to the Art of Storytelling have several objectives: Storytelling in public, Composing a repertoire of stories, Organizing a collective show, Games and bringing emotions into play (...). These theoretical training and practical training sessions (story structure, voice, memory, diction, management of stage fright, etc.).

It is a question of going through the history of the tale (origin, different styles of tale, difference between tale and story), the art of telling (work on the voice, the body, the imagination), the tale and the child (importance of the story for the overall development of the child, resource of the imagination, difference between reading and telling) ...: in short, the intention of this course is to make you want even more, to better tell stories

Open to all those interested in the story (parents, teachers, animators, educators ...), these sessions can also be offered to the person of your choice.

With the program, for this example of storytelling art in particular:
✓ Explore and experience the art of storytelling and discover its hidden sides
✓ Express yourself with your body, your emotions, your ideas, play with situations (...)
✓ Mobilize your capacities and creative energy
✓ Open interior spaces of reverie
✓ Explore your path of personal expression in complete freedom and security
✓ Overcome your fear of public speaking
✓ Make room for your imagination, Develop your creativity
✓ Activate flexibility of mind, Practice active listening
✓ Cooperate, create, play down

The art of storytelling therefore allows you to develop your creativity and imagination, because you are both a director and an actor. It also allows you to overcome shyness and develop speaking, listening and responding skills. Each person evolves at their own pace and uses their sense of creativity.

Objective: to anchor sustainable resources such as letting go, creativity, presence or self-confidence. In short, this artistic discipline will accompany you in your personal development and will help you get out of your comfort zone thanks to a benevolent environment and playful exercises.

THE TRAINER
With training from a Grande Ecole post-European preparatory class & an Ivy League university in the United States, our teacher has specialized and has worked for more than 18 years in the field, in international establishments, speaking in forums and conferences.

➤ PLACE, TIMETABLE, PRICES
✓ Locations: Geneva-Lausanne-Fribourg-Zurich-Neuchâtel-Lugano-Montreux-Basel-Neuchâtel-Bern-Lucerne-Brussels-Luxembourg-Paris-Lyon. But currently, these sessions continue to be offered by videoconference in the current context and in accordance with general demand which is almost unanimous on this subject.

✓ Indeed, apart from the classic advantages of videoconferencing (time saving related to travel & their unforeseen events, eco-responsibility, increased schedule flexibility, etc.), the quality of the session & the interaction remain identical. In addition, the entire exchange, notes and recommendations are immediately transcribed on the dedicated chat.

✓ To support us among ourselves & to be pleasant to you in this sustainable / particular period and in a spirit of solidarity, the fees are temporarily reduced and will not increase after the start of our sessions.

✓ Languages: French/English.

✓ The progress following these private sessions is perceptible from 1 to 2 sessions (*2024 study).

✓ As other people do regularly, you can also please your loved ones by offering gift vouchers available all year round.

CONTACT / PROGRAM
✓ A la carte program: evaluated and adapted to each need.

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Hi, I’m Isabella. I'm an actress trained internationally, with work experience across film, theatre, and TV. I’ve studied at places like IDSA in London, Stella Adler in LA, and Mulholland Academy in Amsterdam, and my training includes techniques like Chubbuck, Meisner, and more.

In our sessions, we’ll always start with where you’re at, whether you’re at the beginning of your acting journey or already stepping into auditions. I tailor everything to your needs, from scene work and character prep to building emotional range, sharpening your audition skills, or simply feeling more grounded and present in front of the camera or on stage.

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This class is designed for anyone who wants to develop a confident, expressive and healthy voice, whether in singing, acting, or public speaking.

I combine vocal technique, breathing, body awareness and interpretation, helping each student connect voice and expression.

Depending on your goals, we can work on:
– singing technique and repertoire;
– vocal projection and diction for actors and speakers;
– stage presence and performance for singers;
– posture, breathing and confidence in communication.

My approach is creative, clear and adapted to each student’s experience level.

Classes are suitable for both beginners and advanced students.

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La formazione aziendale è una noia? Ogni volta che ti mandano ad un corso preferiresti spararti?
Fallo con un attore!
Con l'APS ti diverti apprendendo!
Acting significa recitare, recitazione, ma anche "to play" significa recitare, suonare, ma anche giocare. Vorrà pur dire qualche cosa... :)
Siamo tutti sempre davanti ad un pubblico! 1, 10, 100, 1000 persone! Chi lo sa meglio di un attore? Chi più di un attore è abituato a parlare in pubblico? E poi... è più divertente!

Partendo dagli elementi essenziali della Comunicazione, le lezioni di APS (Acting Public Speaking) integrano nello specifico del parlare in pubblico molti degli elementi base della recitazione, in una modalità che parte dall'esperienza diretta dell'insegnante.
Lavoreremo quindi sui “classici" elementi base della Comunicazione (verbale, non verbale, paraverbale), nonché sulla preparazione di un discorso pubblico: scegliere i contenuti, le fonti, il setting, e molti degli altri aspetti che rendono un discorso in pubblico un discorso efficace.

Il mio approccio attoriale pone l’attenzione sul respiro, l’uso della voce, le basi di dizione (articolazione ed elementi di ortoepia), l’ascolto e l’osservazione di se stessi e degli altri, la memorizzazione, il corpo, la postura, il contatto col pubblico.
Fai arrivare i tuoi contenuti in una conversazione, in un colloquio di lavoro, una conferenza, un esame, un'interrogazione, una recita (amatoriale e non), quando leggi un tuo scritto! Respira, ascolta, parla al tuo pubblico usando tecniche attoriali.
Divertiti parlando in pubblico. Se ti diverti tu, si divertirà anche chi ti ascolta, e ti ascolterà più volentieri, anche se l'argomento è serissimo!
D’altronde: chi, più di un attore... Ah, l’ho già detto... Ma... ti ho detto che c’è anche da divertirsi..?

ATTENZIONE! L'orario delle lezioni è indicativo: contattami se preferisci altri orari!

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Having lived in Spain for almost a decade has given me a global perspective on film and a deep understanding of international and cultural narrative paradigms. With three short films screened at international festivals (and a fourth premiering this year), I can confidently guide you toward stronger, clearer, and producible writing that stands out and, hopefully, comes to fruition. Not confident in your English? No problem! With extensive experience teaching the language, I'll also help you with translation (from Spanish, of course) so your writing style becomes more fluid and natural.

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