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THE GRADUATE PROGRAM - Term 2, 2015.

8 Week Program I Wednesdays I 6:30pm - 9:30pm I Commencing 20th of May, 2015

THE STANISLAVKSI SYSTEM & THE CHUBBUCK TECHNIQUE with Karen Davitt & Lyndelle Green.

After the success of our Wednesday night program in Term One (Experimenting in Truth and Emotion with Damian Walshe-Howling & Lyndelle Green), we are thrilled to provide our students with the next level in Technique Training.  Through ongoing scene study, our next intensive 8 week technique program (Term Two) incorporates four weeks of working on The Stanislavski System with Karen Davitt and four weeks exploring The Chubbuck Technique with Lyndelle Green.  This class is best suited to actors that have had formal training and wish to continue in-depth work, in both the Stanislavski and Chubbuck Techniques.

In weeks 1-4, actors will study The Stanislavski System with actor trainer Karen Davitt. The Stanislavski System is a progression of techniques used to train actors to draw believable emotions to their performances. The method was based on the concept of emotional memory for which an actor focuses internally to portray a character's emotions. Later, this technique evolved to a method of physical actions in which emotions are produced through the use of these actions.The latter technique is referred to as The Stanislavski System. The system is the result of Stanislavski's many years of efforts to determine how someone can creaite in performance the most intangible and uncontrollable aspects of human behavior. Influential acting teachers, including Richard Boleslavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Michael Chekhov, Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Harold Clurman, Robert Lewis, Sanford Meisner, Uta Hagen, Ion Cojar, Andrey Vasilyev and Ivana Chubbuck all trace their methods back to Stanislavski and his theories.  Actors will work on a single script throughout the entire four week duration, exploring the characters motivation, objectives, beats, super objectives, obstacles and actions.  

Stemming from Stanislavski's technique, Ivana Chubbuck then went on to develop her own 12 acting tools that would ultimately create a solid foundation to keep actors present, and inspire a raw, profound, dynamic and powerful performance.  In weeks 5-8, actors will explore the 12 tools of The Chubbuck Technique with Lyndelle Green, who is one of very few actor trainers personally endorsed by Ivana Chubbuck herself.  The 12 tools are: overall objective; scene objective; obstacles; substitutions; inner objects; beats and actions; moment before; place a fourth wall; doings; inner monologue; previous circumstances; and let it go.  While The Chubbuck Technique does use an actor's intellect, it is not a set of intellectual exercises.  This technique is the way to create human behaviour so real that it produces the grittiness and rawness of really living a role. 

THE STANISLAVSKI SYSTEM with Karen Davitt

Karen Davitt graduated from the Victorian College of Arts (VCA) in 1987 and has had a broad ranging artistic career, as a performer, musician, designer, director, writer, puppeteer, and visual artist/prop maker. Karen has performed in film, TV and theatre, including long running lead roles on Blue Healers and Skirts, and also MDA, Stingers, Wildside, Mercury, Country Practice, House rules, The Tribe, State Coroner, and The Man From Snowy River. Theatre work includes plays for The Melbourne Theatre Company and The State Theatre Company of South Australia, including Under Milkwood, Romeo and Juliet, Volpone, and Bigmouth. Feature films include, Quigley, The Ripper, Lucky Break and Ned Kelly and the miniseries Stark by Ben Elton. Karen has also trained at the Phillippe Gaulier School in London, and worked with The Phillippe Genty Company, Dogtroupe Amsterdam, and on the long running Irish television puppet series Rimini Riddle in Dublin. Karens own projects include design and artistic director of Lovely Day (winner of AFI and Yoram Gross Awards). Karen has worked as a dialogue coach for film and television, and has been teaching since 2001at the VCA Drama and VCA Film schools, as well as other institutions in Australia and overseas.

THE CHUBBUCK TECHNIQUE with Lyndelle Green

Lyndelle Green is a passionate acting coach with almost 20 years experience in the performing arts industry. During this time, Lyndelle has worked as Head of Drama at various senior schools across both Queensland and NSW, directed many successful musicals and Rock Eisteddfods, and also marked the Higher School Certificate in NSW. Lyndelle’s expertise has often been called upon for speaking appearances at industry conferences, and as a director for theatre companies in both Sydney and Brisbane. Recognition for Lyndelle’s coaching work with students at Macquarie University came when she won the ‘Vice Chancellor’s Award for Innovation in Learning’. Lyndelle trained as an actor with QUT’s Andrew Buchanan, at NIDA, and at The Actor’s Centre. She also trained in Los Angeles with Scott Sedita, at The Second City in Hollywood, and at the Ivana Chubbuck Studio. As an actor herself, Lyndelle has appeared in film and on television, as well as making regular appearances on stage for a wide variety of theatre companies. Lyndelle has also worked in the corporate environment running specialised training workshops. As an acting coach and tutor, Lyndelle has trained actors at Brent Street Studios, The Australian Theatre for Young People and Screenwise Film and Television School. Lyndelle underwent extensive training at the Ivana Chubbuck studio in Los Angeles, emerging as an accredited teacher of The Chubbuck Technique. Lyndelle is one of very few actor-trainers endorsed by Ivana Chubbuck.

BOOK YOUR PLACEMENT NOW

To enrol, simply book via our website. It will automatically be sent to enquiries@filmtv.com.au.  We will then process your application. If you send your application form and all placements have been filled we will be in touch to notify you.  If you have any further queries, please don't hesitate to contact us directly on 1800 FILMTV (1800 345 688).

*All applications are processed on a first in first served basis.  Once your placement has been confirmed, you will recieve a full week by week breakdown on what to expect from your program, together with further course materials which are sent to you via email.

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