Suzuki Training for the Performer Sundays 1-3pm
Rigorous physical and vocal exercises centering,
grounding, and focusing the performer.
Developed and perfected over the past 30 years by world-renowned renowned theater
director, educator and theorist Tadashi Suzuki,
the work is inspired by traditional forms of Japanese theater - Noh, Kabuki,
Kyogen, etc. and modern gestural and presentational styles.
The performer is strengthened both physically and psychologically while acquiring
a new set of acting tools;
deepening awareness of form and composition; and rejoicing in the power of true
ensemble.
pics! / the Bay Guardian Article
goals and tenets; /student's
notes about the work / a conversation between Suzuki
and Hijikata /
TIME Magazine review of Suzuki's THE
TALE OF LEAR
Private Audition and Acting Coaching
SCENE
STUDY/CHARACTER LAB - A Master Class for Professional Actors Passionate
and comic two and three-person scenes varied in style and period, focusing on
honesty of interpretation, and completeness of character. This is a rigorous
acting workshop in constructing a three-dimensional character that is at once
appropriate for the parameters of the scene and the intentions of the
playwright as well as transformative for the actor in body,voice, gesture,
emotional state, etc. Create a 'new' human being
that walks and moves, speaks and sounds, dreams and emotes differently from
you. Discover new approaches to voice and timbre, body and gesture, image and
emotion. Techniques include working from
psychological gestures (Michael Chekhov), shifting centers, full face
photographs, collected live studies, vocal and timbral shifts, rhythmic and
metabolic changes, etc. as well as specific, deft and profound scene work. These
techniques are practical, detailed, and the underlying curriculum is designed
to give the student a new set of tools to aid in theatrical transformation. The
work is focused, detailed, challenging and fun.
properly sizing and blocking the performance ~ insightful and to-the-point acting coaching as needed from audition
through callbacks and into rehearsal.
Ongoing schedule -
$75/hour. successes
CD Demo Recording
Additional Classes offered at the Studio
all classes held Jeffrey Bihr Studio - 5390 Miles Avenue Oakland