Acting Workshops For Beginners 18+

Idea

Acting workshops are aimed at adults who want to work on themselves – gain self-assurance and broaden expression. We learn to control emotions, practice reflexes, and creative thinking. Through body and voice training, we enhance communicativeness. We work as a group. All of this can improve the quality of our actions both on stage and in daily life. However, the workshops are also a time for fun and detachment from responsibilities. During sessions, we don’t focus solely on performing scenes. The main goal of acting workshops is to exercise free expression – enabling participants to “step out of their comfort zone,” which means breaking routine and exploring new emotions and states that are often blocked in everyday life.

Program

We try to tailor sessions to the needs of participants. The workshops focus on various aspects of acting. The program includes:

• Energetic warm-ups and theatre games, aimed at group integration, boosting participant confidence, and gaining self-awareness.

• Acting technique: body work
Learning to control the body,
Eliminating habitual movements,
Expanding physical expression, i.e., embodying different roles physically.

• Acting technique: voice work
Learning vocal control,
Breathing exercises,
Expanding vocal expression,
Text work,
Elements of singing.

• Acting technique: working with emotions
Learning to control emotions, including dealing with stage fright,
Responding to emotional impulses,
Exercises in entering and exiting various emotional states,
Integrating emotions with body and voice,
Emotional hygiene, i.e., safely working with emotions and maintaining distance.

• Acting tasks: improvisations, scenes, and public performances
Creative thinking training,
Mindfulness training,
Exercises for quick and spontaneous reactions,
Authentic action training,
Group and partner work,
Building confidence on stage,
Utilizing acting techniques in character development.

• Elements of camera work

Effects

Upon completing the workshops, participants will:
• Stimulate creative thinking and imagination,
• Increase mindfulness and reflexes,
• Broaden expression,
• Gain awareness of body and voice,
• Learn to control emotions,
• Develop self-awareness,
• Learn how to creatively use mistakes,
• Push their limitations,
• Improve group work skills,
• Learn how to use acting techniques both in theatrical situations and in daily life.

For whom?

For those aged 18 and above.
For those who want to work on themselves – their courage, creativity, and expression.
For those who want to apply acting techniques in their professional work.

When and where?

Fridays, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Leader: Piotr Filonowicz
The semester includes 15 sessions from September 2024 to January 2025.
The first session was held on September 27, 2024.

Akademia Sztuki i Kultury, Warszawa, Al. Jana Pawła II 36c

Other Information

The workshops will accommodate up to 15 people, based on the order of registrations.
Please memorize a small prose fragment (half a page), preferably a monologue. It’s not about preparing a performance, but only about memorizing the text. We will start working on it during the fourth-fifth session.
To receive a certificate, you cannot miss more than 25% of the sessions (counted from the moment of registration for the workshops).
We exercise in comfortable clothing for freedom of movement. We enter the workshop room in changed footwear or socks.
Please arrive 15 minutes before the scheduled start of the session. Together, we prepare the space, and after the sessions, we clean it up.
Tea and coffee are available on-site.