Movement for Actors: Laban, Character, and Text

This class builds off of the physical explorations of awareness, expression, and transformation you have already begun in your training as an actor. In this 10 week intensive, we focus on the work of Rudolf Laban. We will continue to work very technically – to drastically increase your strength and flexibility in a variety of daily warm ups as well as engaging in ensemble and partner exercises. However, we will focus mainly on Laban’s theory of movement, which becomes the springboard for working with character. Students begin working in a more practical way through scene work and the use of heightened text. By the end of the term, students should demonstrate a significant increase in the ability to take physical and emotional risks on the page, and be able to sense this growth within themselves. This growth should be evident in the student’s personal sense of emotional and physical expansion, as well as a more flexible range of expression when it comes to playing characters.

Prior movement training recommended.

INSTRUCTOR:

Michelle Uranowitz


HB Studio offers both online classes and in-person classes at the Studio. Before your first class, please review the information outlined on the relevant page(s). Class titles below indicate which are running online vs. in person. 

Most classes run for 10 weeks. Some classes are offered in two 5-week parts (Part A & Part B), and you can sign up for either part independently or register for both parts for $15 off. You can register for Part B without taking Part A: