Acting * Body * Voice * Merge Class
Classes will resume September 2007
This is not just a scene study class! Shauna Kanter teaches an integrated approach to acting combining the body and voice daring actors to experience deeper levels of trust.
Physical and vocal explorations, scene work and specific improvisations are utilized to complete the full expression of the actor's body, voice, life experiences and imagination.
Draw upon and trust your own individuality as you incorporate your voice and body in a theatrical style that is unconditionally your own.
Exercises and techniques of Michael Chekhov, Jerzy Growtowski, Veiwpoints and Shauna Kanter are drawn upon to create this unique experience.
About Shauna Kanter
Playwright, Director, Teacher, Artistic Director
Shauna Kanter is currently on the faculty of The Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting and has taught acting at: NYU Tisch School of the Arts, T. Schreiber Studio and the New Actor's Workshop. In England: at The Mountview Theatre Conservatory, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Queen Margaret College and Middlesex University – all members of the Professional Theatre Training Programme of Great Britain. Ms. Kanter is the Artistic Director of VOICETheatre and has directed over thirty-two plays in eleven countries from the West Bank in Palestine to Aberbeen, Scotland to San Antonio, Texas. Last season she directed the Off-Broadway production of RETZACH at 59E59 Theatre. This year she is directing her own play Shmendricked for the Stella Adler Studio and Measure for Measure at the Abilene Shakespeare Festival in Texas.
Fee & Registration:
Registration is monthly. If the fee is paid two weeks before the start of every month students receive the discounted fee of $155, otherwise a monthly fee of $180 is due.
Technique / scene study class is held Wednesday evening:
7:30-10:30pm
Actors Movement Studio Conservatory
302 West 37th Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY
For more information on VOICETheatre call 212 201 9337
What the press says:
"VOICETheatre's production of RETZACH by Hanoch Levin is all the right things: vivid, grim, frightening, mesmerizing." - New York Times
"Shauna Kanter has given RETZACH a powerful taut production that shocks by virtue of its simplicity and naked emotions." - Pick of the week, Backstage
"The Two Gentlemen from Verona is one of the best productions of the Woodstock Shakespeare Festival ever." - Woodstock Times
Summer Training
Audition Technique Workshop
Taught by Shauna Kanter
Due to the nature of this class enrollment is very limited
Create a uniquely stunning monologue
Survive the interview
Read the Sides Brilliantly
Win the Job
Auditioning is an art form, a skill that must be cultivated and cared for if you are to survive as a working actor in the present business
The class will focus on:
Cold Readings
Reading Prepared Sides
Monologues
Mock Interviews and Auditions
Letter writing and contact procedures
Follow up procedures and audition etiquette
Intro Class:
Saturday June 2nd 12noon-6pm, fee: $50
The Real Class Begins:
Tuesday Evenings, 6:30-10:30pm
5 Tuesday sessions only:
July 17th,24th, 31st, August 7th and 14th
Fee:
for five sessions $ 250
Enrollment by June 15th discounted fee:
$175
In your monologue risk and trust more than just one color, one part of you, express as many different colors and aspects of your humanity as the monologue will bear.
Develop and build confidence, even enjoy in the audition process.
Learn how to respect yourself and others before, during and after the audition.
Learn how to serve the audition process and see it for what it is –
a meeting between artists.
What former students say:
“Working with Shauna excites me about being an
actor because of the freedom and exploration she helps you discover within yourself. She listens to you as an actor and helps you build on what you already have. It’s a great experience.”
Stephen McFarland, Lincoln Center Development
“Going to acting class at VOICE Theatre keeps me grounded, focused and inspired in my development as an actor and as an individual. The curriculum/structure encourages discovering the unknown; Thus, the lessons I have learned have been priceless.
Julie Marcus, Actor and Playwright, Manhattan Theatre Source
Staged Readings
In deciding whether to present full length plays VOICETheatre will produce staged readings with the view to investigate the possibility of a script moving into a main stage category. These readings may be presented in the LoTechNoTech sessions or in a theatre for the public.
Main Stage Productions
Each year VOICETheatre produces main stage productions. For info on this season go to 2006 Season.
On-going Acting Classes
Weekly classes in New York City focus on acting technique, performance and scene study. Classes are led by artistic director, Shauna Kanter. Voicetheatre classes draw from an eclectic range of techniques from Stanislavski's Method to Michael Chekhov's acting techniques, to Anne Bogart and Mary Overlie's Viewpoints.
Level I
The Voice and Body of the Actor
A series of vocal and physical exercises that enable the actor to free and strengthen their body and voice. Combining visualization with specific technical skill these exercises release the emotional life, vocal power, physical expression, thought and spontaneity of the actor. Breath work enables the actor to release tension blocks in each part of the body, to connect to deeper feelings and to play moment to moment without self doubt.
Group improvisation is included to bring about a sense of play and joy.
Duration: Monthly Registration
Level II
The Tools of the Actor
The awakening of the actors' body, imagination and voice. Our investigation is concerned with allowing the actor to experience the emotional demands of the life of their character, to stay in the moment, to connect with their own experiences and uniqueness as well as to develop the ability to listen.
Emphasis is on the physical expression of the actor's body and is combined with the emotional inner life of each character and the theatrical world in which each play takes place. Character and period work and varying directorial styles are addressed. Script analysis, structure and breakdown of text is included. What is the most daring, theatrically intersting choice and why and constructive problem solving rehearsal techniques are examined in this scene study class.
Duration: Monthly Registration
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