Seminar: Acting with Passion
There is nothing more exhilarating than feeling totally alive onstage every moment. Can you count on this feeling every time you act? At auditions? First preview? Take after take?
Acting with Passion is unlike any acting class you've ever done. Ask WorkShop regulars like Mark Hofmaier, Tracy Newirth, Liz Forst, Bob Manus, Charlotte Hampden and others. After only four very intense classes you'll unlock all the talent you know you possess and find yourself acting with the joy and ease that often seems out of reach.
Niki Flacks' work is based on the mind/body concept that our emotions are trapped in subtle muscular tensions which cause us to feel tight onstage. Instead of `being in the moment' we find our heads taking over with non-stop critiques and we are consumed with effort to `make things happen.'
How many times have you left a rehearsal knowing you are working too hard, pushing feelings, intellectualizing like mad and totally unable to do anything about it? Give yourself a gift. Sign up for Acting with Passion.
Class size limited to 12. Reserve a place early. You will be asked to have two monologues thoroughly memorized.
DECEMBER:
Monday 12/5
Tuesday 12/6
Thursday 12/8
Friday 12/9
All classes from 12:00-4:00PM
All 4 sessions - $160
FROM STUDENTS IN LONDON AND AROUND THE WORLD:
• Broadway actress: “I’d been searching for years for a way to stop working with so much effort. At last, I feel physically free and emotionally free. Acting is fun again!
• British television star: “The most amazing training I’ve ever experienced. I never dreamed I could have such emotional ease. Now, I can actually cry on cue!”
• RADA graduate, Royal Shakespeare Company actor : “For the first time, I’ve actually stopped intellectualizing—in fact, after working with Niki, it’s just not possible.”
• French stage and film actress : “My auditions have changed radically. I’m being cast now in roles I would never have been considered for in the past.
• American film and television actress : “It used to be so hard to stay ‘in the moment’ on camera, take after take. Now, each take becomes a fresh exploration. I know how to stay connected and open. Thanks, Niki.”
FROM STUDENTS IN NEW YORK:
• "I loved the class and enjoyed everyone's work. I will definitely sign up for the return."
• "Thank goodness I found out about this class... Niki is amazing...truly awesome. "
• "It was a great class!"
• "Thank you for the class. Applying the lesson to 3 very different styles of pieces showed the elasticity of the technique(s). Marvelous to see how grounded comedic monologues became and consequently, how much funnier. "
• "Thank you, thank you for such an extraordinary experience and giving us all the allowance to be liberated."
• "It was amazing how emotional people's monologues were. Very powerful and connected. It was tremendous! I'm so grateful I was able to take the class."
Niki Flacks' long and varied career has in recent years taken her unique approach to actors in London, Paris, Israel and this summer Berlin. Flacks also directs frequently in England as well as in the US.
