The Workshop:   Sat 27th and Sun 28th March 2010, 11am - 5pm

Costs: £95 / £85 Concession

Venue:

The Hidden Space

93a Falkland Rd, London N8 0NS

(Tube: Turnpike Lane)

Bookings:  email info@theatretraining.org.uk to request a booking form.

Natalia Fedorova is a stage movement teacher at the Moscow Arts Theatre Academy. In this workshop, Natalia will give a practical introduction to the unique movement system that has evolved in Russia out of the physical work of Meyerhold, Vakhtangov and Stanislavsky. This system focuses on cultivating spatial awareness and speed of impulse, thereby freeing the body and increasing the actor’s range of movement as well as developing an acute sense of balance and control. Unlike many other movement systems these techniques are structured to fully complement and facilitate Stanislavsky-based work.

Natalia was a student of Andrey Drozin and worked for several years as his chief assistant teaching his extraordinary system of movement. As well as her work at the Moscow Arts Theatre Academy, she has also taught at the Carnegie-Mellon University School of Drama (Pittsburgh, PA), the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard (Boston, MA), Fordham University (New York), the Actor's Studio (New York), Princeton University (New Jersey), Central School of Speech and Drama (London) and the Stanislavsky Summer School (Cambridge, MA).

Movement teacher are often asked why theater students move so well in their movement exams and are not so expressive in their acting classes. How to transfer their movement skills in their acting? My teacher’s answer was: “We make violins. We don’t teach violinist how to play it”. In order to make a bridge between these two activities we included a section of object work in our movement training in the Moscow Art Theatre School.  We use different objects – chairs, benches, tables and walls and various games with and around different objects aimed at increasing student’s spatial awareness and “movement logistics”. The training itself is very physically-oriented and pretty vigorous: our main goal is to develop psychophysical qualities of an actor such as dexterity, strength, flexibility, sense of partnership, spatial awareness and sensitivity and responsiveness to outer impulses.

The workshop will involve both individual, pair and group work, and while it is open to anyone, it is aimed at actors and will be physically challenging.

Workshop Natalia Fedorova

The Actor's Inner Impulse:
Masterclass with Moscow Arts Theatre School Movement Teacher -
Natalia Fedorova