Hagen Teacher’s Lab West

The Hagen Teacher’s Lab is thrilled to bring its work to the West Coast this January 2019, hosted by the California State University Long Beach Theater Department.

Wednesday – Monday | 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
January 2 – 7, 2019
California State University – Long Beach, CA

Applications are now closed.

APPLY ONLINE

FACULTY:

Program Director & Technique: Carol Rosenfeld
Scene Study: Brian Mulligan
Speaking Voice: Andrea Caban

HELD ANNUALLY IN NYC AT HB STUDIO SINCE 2014.

The Uta Hagen Institute’s Hagen Teacher’s Lab West is an intensive, six-day program where artists and educators from around the world come to continue their professional development. The program is designed to serve teachers, future teachers, and professional actors who wish to explore and expand their understanding and experience of Uta Hagen’s approach to acting and teaching.

EXPERIENCE THE DEPTH AND VALUE OF UTA HAGEN’S OBJECT EXERCISES AND SCENE STUDY PROCESS IN ACTOR TRAINING.

With HB Studio faculty who trained directly with Uta Hagen, we will explore the infinite potential of Uta Hagen’s exercises in the actor’s practice at all levels of experience. Through participation and discussion, we see the individual talent revealed and released through this approach. Lab participants will play dual roles: Actor and Teacher. As an actor, you will be asked to prepare an exercise and rehearse a scene. As a teacher, you will be assigned an exercise and scene to critique.

THE EXTREMELY PRACTICAL EXERCISES FOUND IN UTA HAGEN’S WORLD-FAMOUS BOOKS, RESPECT FOR ACTING AND A CHALLENGE FOR THE ACTOR, PROBE THE DEPTHS AND HEIGHTS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR.

They offer the actor a structure for lifelong practice exploring the dynamic interaction between sensory/emotional experience and the creative imagination. They hone the actor’s ability to actively live through the circumstances of the play and the character’s dilemma. When the work becomes a part of the actor’s process, unpremeditated truthful behavior replaces cliché and easy sentiment in performance. The actor grows to honor an authentic, present and intuitively responsive self in the role while making imaginative choices that serve the play.

Upon registration, you will be given guidelines on how to prepare for the workshop. Rehearsal outside class is required.

“…An organic transference of oneself to the role, the development of a new “I” who is alive in the world of the play, involves a creative process which is not a willy-nilly, loose way of working that depends solely on intuitive or elusive inspiration. On the contrary, it is a process which, however slow and painstaking, can be structured in an orderly way over which the actor has control, although no part of it is mechanical… It is a true challenge of one’s diligence and one’s talent. This process is to me like the drafting of a musical score in which the actor composes the character’s theme, orchestrates it, defines the phrases, individual beats, and the arrangement of the notes he will eventually play with spontaneity at each performance, putting to use his finely honed inner and outer techniques.” – Uta Hagen, A Challenge for the Actor © 1991, by Uta Hagen, All Rights Reserved.

Tuition: $850
CSU Faculty Tuition: $750

Required Texts: A Challenge for the Actor by Uta Hagen and Acting and Living in Discovery by Carol Rosenfeld

Schedule:
• 9:30am-10:25am Vocal Warm-up
• 10:30am-1:00pm Technique
• 1:00pm-2:00pm Lunch
• 2:00pm-4:30pm Scene Study

Audits: University and High School Acting Teachers and Hagen Teacher’s Lab Alumni are welcome to request to audit (observe) one or two days of the Hagen Teacher’s Lab.
• Audit fee: $60 per day.
• To request an audit, email Jim Boerlin at jboerlin@hbstudio.org with:
– Your name
– School affiliation and position
– Your reason for auditing
– Date(s) you would like to audit

Details

  • Time:
    Every day
    January 2, 2019 – January 7, 2019
    9:30 am – 4:30 pm ET
  • Instructor: Brian Mulligan, Carol Rosenfeld
  • Location: California State University Long Beach - Department of Theatre Arts, Room 24/26, 1250 N Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90815
  • Class Code: HTL-WIN19