Movement for Actors Workshop to Develop Expressive Skills

Experience Level: Open
Recommended For: Actors and dancers at any stage who want to deepen physical awareness, expressive range, and embodied storytelling.
If you want to feel more connected to your body onstage and on camera, this workshop is a great place to start. Movement for Actors creates space to explore how physicality shapes character, behavior, and storytelling.
You’ll work with tools that help you open up, move with intention, and build characters from a fuller physical life. Whether you’re brand new to movement or coming in with a dance background you want to deepen, this class meets you where you are.
Expect a class that’s revelatory, expressive, and—yes—genuinely fun.
By the end of the workshop, you’ll walk away with:
A clearer understanding of how your body supports your acting
Practical movement habits for auditions, rehearsal, and scene work
Greater confidence and freedom in how you physically show up as an artist
This workshop is open to all levels, including dancers who want to bring more storytelling into their physical work.

About the Instructor
Jamie Nichols is a celebrated dancer, choreographer, and educator with over two decades leading the contemporary dance company Fast Feet. Her work is known for emotional intensity and detailed movement and has earned multiple Lester Horton Dance Awards. Jamie brings her powerful contemporary movement approach to LACAE’s Adult Workshops in Dance and Movement for Actors and is a respected curator and advocate within the Los Angeles dance community.
What to Bring
Wear clothing you can move in. A notebook and water bottle are helpful.

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