Courses
TWO YEAR PART-TIME
Professional and Performance Skills
Acting
Over the two years students will experiment with the various techniques
developed by most of the leading theatre practitioners enabling each course
participant to more freely access their acting potential. Finding the truth
in a character is an essential aspect of any actors approach to performance.
This will be the major focus during the acting classes over the two years.
As with the One Year Diploma, the development of each actor's individuality
is central to acting studies at LSDA. There will be studies of character
behaviour and impulse as well as exercises in sense memory and imagination.
Improvisation
The art of improvisation enables the actor to act spontaneously in a scene.
Even the most courageous actor has inhibitions of one form or another. Classes
in improvisation allow these to be overcome in a creative and dynamic way.
Exercises will open up imagination and help develop quickness of thinking
on ones feet. The structure of a good improvisation will be explored using
status, storytelling, blocking, the magic "if" and characterisation.
Voice and Movement
Voice is a vital component for the professional actor to be heard. Within
the structure of the course you will explore release and use of tension,
breath capacity and effectiveness, development of tone and resonance, clarity
and articulation, muscularity of the word, connection and credibility and
use of the voice in varied texts. Voice and movement blends with the acting
and all other disciplines within the training ensuring that students will
leave the course able to analyse and use the voice and body whatever demands
are placed on them. An awareness of the physical self is essential in order
to be able to change, shed and gain a new physicality in the process of
character building. Much of these classes are the same as the Diploma course.
Camera and Radio Techniques
Singing
Text Analysis
Guest Directors / Speakers / Practitioners