metodifestival

Alta Maremma/Toscana 1/10 Ottobre 2010

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Rassegna Internazionale sulle Tecniche di Recitazione

con il patrocinio di:

Provincia di Livorno

armunia
Comune di Cecina

Comune di Rosignano Marittimo

Comune di Castagneto Carducci

Comune di Bibbona

Comune di Guardistallo

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Welcome to Metodi Festival

III edition

An international meeting of acting methods and approaches

In the third edition of the Metodi Festival, we will once again consider the work of Lee Strasberg (David Gideon) analyzing his method from a different prospective. The festival will present a debate on Strasberg's technique comparing and contrasting it with Viola Spolin's improvisational acting technique (Kathy Hendrickson) and Keith Johnstone's original Improvisational Theate (Frank Totino). First, we will examine the place of theater of improvisation as it relates to the greater world of theater in general paying particular attention to the pedagogical meaning and value of these methods rooted in improvisation. Second, we will look at how this radical approach stimulates a continuous training of the actor's skills and abilities. Finally, we will debate, as one of the congress' primary themes, improvisation as foundation of acting itself, taking care to understand implications such as: The availability and flexibility of the actor, the scenic event as a unique event that needs to be recreated moment by moment, etc. This constitutes the end of the first cycle of debates and conferences curated by Metodi Festival, in which Stanislavsky's inheritance, primarily an American development, has been explored in its most common and successful expressions.

Lee Strasberg Technique, Ddavid Gideon, New York

Viola Spolin Technique, Kathy Hendrickson, New York

Keith Johnstone Technique, Frank Totino, Canada

Sandford Meisner Technique, Joel Rooks, New York

Clive Barker Technique, Paolo Asso Italy

Ten days of workshops, conferences and debate focused on the profession of acting. A face-to-face encounter between the most well-known acting methods.

This conference has been conceived as a confrontation between prominent trainers of the world's most well-known acting methods, providing an arena for theoretical and empirical exchange of technique.
Workshops are open to professional actors, acting students, acting coaches, directors and writers.

TECHNIQUES

Lee Strasberg method
Lee Strasberg's acting technique is a development of Stanislavsky's method and teaching. Strasberg placed special focus on the practice of sense memory and emotional sensitivity to the action on stage. Strasberg's exercises and improvisations give the actor ample autonomy for expression by connecting the actor's real emotions to the imagined relationships produced on stage.

Keith Johnstone Method
Improvisation, Transformation, Narrative and Character . Relating these aspects of performance in terms of how they drive each other in the creation of dramatic action. How Johnstone’s methods teach these relationships and inspire spontaneity in performance.

Viola Spolin method
Viola Spolin (November 7, 1906 - November 22, 1994) was an American drama teacher and author. She is considered by many to be the American Grandmother of Improvisation. She influenced the first generation of improvisational actors at the Second City in Chicago in the late 1950s, through her son, Paul Sills, who was one of Second City's co-founders. Spolin developed new games that focused upon creativity, adapting and focusing the concept of play to unlock the individual's capacity for creative self-expression. Viola Spolin's use of recreational games in theatre came from her background with the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression where she studied with Neva Boyd. Spolin is the author of a number of texts on improvisation, her most famous being published by Northwestern University Press, which has since become the "bible of the movement."

Sanford Meisner method
A former actor of Stanislavsky's prominent "Group Theater" laboratory, Sanford Meisner later perfected his acting technique by teaching classes for over fifty years. The technique is based on on-stage relationships and the use of verbal actions. Meisner's technique has proved itself as one of the most effective methods of acting in the world. His "repetition" exercise is considered to be one of the clearest techniques for realizing the place of dialogue exchanges as a part of each scene's actions.

Clive Barker method
The work of Clive Barker (1931-2005) gets to the root of acting training and its related problems. The use of his exercises and Theatre Games, inspired to the way children train themselves through playing, put the actors in a situation of continuous interaction, which kindly - but with no room for tricks and faking - compel them to enlarge their sensitivity and ability to act in a stage situation. Trained at the extraordinary laboratory of Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, Barker devoted his life to make easier and sharper the stage experience. His technique, exposed in his seminal book "Theatre Games" (1977), clears up Stanislavskij's principles on the basis of a refined psycho-physical demand, thanks to a valuable theoretical awareness close to scientific and social research.

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