Meisner Technique ACTING Workshops 2024 in Vienna
Schedule
Wed, 17 Jan, 2024 at 06:00 pm
Location
Studio Iaspis | Wien, WI
MEISNER INTENSIVE ACTING WORKSHOPSVIENNA
WINTER 2024
with STEVEN DITMYER
(Director and Acting Coach from NYC, alumnus of Sanford Meisner)
LIMITED PLACES!
Workshop 1 – (Foundation of Meisner Technique)
Wednesday, January 17th to Sunday, January 21st
Weekdays always from 6pm to 9:30pm, Weekends 1:00pm to 4:30pm
(Suitable for those with or without previous Meisner training).
Workshop 5 – (The Domestic Exercise - Relationships)
Tuesday, January 30th, to Saturday, February 3rd
Always from 1.00pm to 4:30pm
(Eligible to those who have taken at least workshop 2 (independent Activities) with Steven Ditmyer or other Meisner Training with same content. Even if you haven’t done workshops 3 or 4 yet)
WHERE:
Studio Iaspis, Roßauer Lände 23A, 1090 Vienna
KonTrastes, Hanglüßgasse 3/1, 1150 Wien (only one evening for WS 1 on Jan 17th)
COSTS:
1 WORKSHOP:
Regular Price - € 375
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT - € 325 until Friday, January 12th for Workshop 1 and until Wednesday, January 17th for Workshop 5, 2024 (if spots still available)
2 WORKSHOPS: (If booked together Workshop 1 and 5 for those who repeat ws 1 for example)
Regular Price - € 700
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT - € 600 until Friday, January 12th for Workshop 1 and you can add until Wednesday, January 17th Workshop 5, 2024 (if spots still available)
REPEAT DISCOUNT
There is an extra discount of €25 for those who repeat a workshop, meaning they’ve done the full workshop with Steven either in Vienna or in any other city/country before and want to repeat it again.
We also offer the possibility to participate as an OBSERVER (these places are also limited; please register if interested):
OBSERVING COSTS:
1 Day: € 45
1 entire 5-day Workshop: € 200
2 entire workshops (10 days): € 375
**STRICTLY LIMITED PLACES**
For Workshops 1 & 5
Maximum 12 Participants per workshop
(On a first come, first serve basis)
SUITABLE FOR ALL LEVELS OF EXPERIENCE
These workshops are suitable for actors, directors, writers, and artists of all kinds. They offer an introduction to the Meisner technique followed by intensive training. This technique is one of the leading and most complete acting techniques in the Western world.
The Workshops will be conducted in English (we could organize a translator for German if necessary) and the work will be in English and German depending on your language skills.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED!
Registration and questions: [email protected]
Organizer: Flora Resl
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STEVEN DITMYER is an internationally renowned director and acting coach from New York City and has worked with Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin and Arthur Miller among others. He graduated as an actor and later as an acting teacher from The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York. His teacher was the one and only Sanford Meisner. Since then, Steven has been sharing his knowledge in many different cities around the world including New York, Atlanta, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Berlin, Helsinki, Rome, Lisbon, Vilnius, Warsaw and Vienna. This Winter 2024, Steven returns to Vienna, Austria for the sixteenth time to continue the acting process with his students from past years and he will also offer a Workshop 1 for newcomers. Of course, you can also repeat one or more workshops to deepen and strengthen as an actor within the Meisner technique.
You can read more about Steven and the Meisner technique at www.meisnerinternational.com
Words from Steven:
“These workshops offer a foundation and advanced work of the Meisner Technique, which was developed by Sanford Meisner at The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he taught for more than 50 years – and where I had the privilege of being one of his students 33 years ago”.
In his work at the Playhouse, Meisner trained many of our most distinguished actors and directors, including Robert Duvall, Sydney Pollack, Tony Randall, Christopher Lloyd, James Caan, Diane Keaton, Joanne Woodward, Steve McQueen, Jeff Goldblum, Allison Janney and many more.
The technique is based on truth. Meisner said, “Acting is the ability to live truthfully under given imaginary circumstances.”
Steven Ditmyer
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FOUNDATION OF MEISNER TECHNIQUE - (WORKSHOP 1)
We will be working on “The ability to live truthfully,” by using the repetition exercise, which is an improvisational exercise that teaches you to focus on your partner, and if you really focus, you will start to really respond. TRUTHFULLY. And that’s what we are after, the truthful response, not the “this-is-what-I’m-suppose-to-say,” response (from the brain), but this is the TRUE thing to say because this is what I get from the other person right now. It’s an amazing exercise because it’s simple and honest. It’s not easy, but it’s simple.
In this approach our emotions come freely, as a side benefit, a gift, when our attention is on something else – and that something else is what we are doing. Really listening, really working off our fellow actors and being in response to what is happening. Following our impulses from one unanticipated moment to the next unanticipated moment. Meisner told us, “The seed to the craft of acting is the reality of doing.” This principle: The Reality of Doing (really doing) is the foundation of all good acting.
Then on the last day of the workshop, we will use text in the exercise (a short scene which will be given to the participants on the first day of class to learn by rote) to show how far your impulses can take you in your acting when you let go of the brain, truly listen, and spontaneously respond to your partner.
I love this work because it is a very healthy approach to the craft of acting. The work is grounded in who we are today and what our past experiences mean to us now!
There are many acting techniques, and the ones that are valid will help you arrive at the one ultimate truth, your truth. The work we will do together will lead you to acting with a deep personal meaning, a wonderful simplicity and to a level of working where technique disappears and what remains, is you in your acting.
This workshop will help all those who are interested in Theatre, Film and TV – actors, directors, writers…everyone. I can’t wait for you to discover this work!
RELATIONSHIPS – THE DOMESTIC EXERCISE (WORKSHOP 5)
A lot of life in your acting will be stimulated by clearly defined relationships. In this workshop you will explore different kinds of relationships where two people share a space together and you will learn how to craft these Domestic Relationships specifically and meaningfully.
Up until now the playing space has always belonged to the person doing the Independent Activity and the person coming to the door had to knock because they didn’t live there. They were entering someone else’s space.
Now, both partners will share the space because you will live together! This is called the Domestic Exercise. And both actors will now have Activities! The actor at home will have a specifically crafted and emotionally meaningful activity, like we’ve done in workshops 3 and 4, and the actor coming home will also have an activity or activities!
The partner coming to the door will enter the room full of life over something, and armed with an objective, which they leave alone. Then, they put their attention either on their actions (the things they need to do when they come home) or on their partner, if he or she is honestly doing something that grabs their attention.
And off we go! Into the world were anything can happen. How exciting! All kinds of relationships are possible, and this will allow you to explore all kinds of personal meanings. If you leave yourself alone and play off whatever you are given, which means - let go, be honest, take in and don’t push – truthful contact will happen between you and your fellow actor.
I look forward to working with you!
Sincerely,
Steven Ditmyer
For booking and more information, please contact organizer Flora Resl:
[email protected] / 06765841733
The order and the content of the diverse Workshops which Steven offers are the following:
Workshop 1 (Foundation of Meisner Technique)
Workshop 2 (Independent Activities)
Workshop 3 (Emotional Preparation)
Workshop 4 (Relationships)
Workshop 5 (Relationships - The Domestic Exercise)
Workshop 6 (Scene Work – Super Objectives and Actions)
Workshop 7 (Character Work 1: Physical Impediments)
Workshop 8 (Character Work 2: Intense Pain)
Workshop 9 (Character Work 3: Drugs & Alcohol)
Workshop 10 (Character Work 4: Imitations and Point of View)
Workshop 11 (Advanced Scene Work + Performance)
Where is it happening?
Studio Iaspis, Rossauer Lände 23a, 1090 Wien, Österreich,Wien, Österreich, Austria
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