arts
vivants
asbl
arts vivants asbl is a non-profit organization based in Luxembourg. We aim at increasing cultural disversity with theater, film and other artistic productions. Most of our projects contain a social dimension, in addition to the artistic one.
Let's make art, touch people and increase the awareness for social problems !
Your arts vivants asbl team
when ?
5 & 6 April 2014 from 10am to 5pm
where?
at the Banannefabrik
12, rue du puits
L-2355 luxembourg-bonnevoie (map)
what?
The Meisner technique is an acting technique developed by the American theatre practitioner Sanford Meisner. Sandy Meisner developed this technique after working with Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler at the Group Theatre and as head of the acting program at New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse and continued its refinement for fifty years.
By the 1990's, The Meisner Technique had trained a number of generations of actors, including Robert Duvall, Gregory Peck, Jeff Goldblum, Grace Kelly, Diane Keaton, and others. Today it has become the dominant acting technique among successful film and television actors and almost every acting school in California began to offer some kind of Meisner training.
The Meisner Technique is based on the instinct and the reality of doing, allowing the actor to live truthfully, moment by moment.
"Act before you think. Your instincts are more honest than your thoughts"
Sandy Meisner
Instinct & Truth: the path of an actor
An introduction to the Meisner Technique starting with repetition and physical training
who?
with Irina Casali
and Alessandro Zatta
Recently graduated from the Meisner Technique taught by Larry Silverberg, Irina is the artistic director of the ALA ACTING LANGUAGES ACADEMY in Milan. She was born in Argentina and raised in the theater. Her parents founded the theater group Comuna Baires in 1969. Irina was two when her family moved to Milan, Italy. At ten, Irina had her first performance on stage and she played theater ever since. She graduated in Philosophy at the Università Statale di Milano.
Interview of Irina on the occasion of her first workshop in Luxembourg in October 2013
Music: © Cream - I feel free
As an actress and stage director, she participated in many festivals across the world. Irina received a Silver Medal form the President of the Italian Republic in 2005 for the play “HACI GUIGO: 8.15”, which she wrote and directed. She has been an acting teacher for 20 years. She works with the Meisner Technique which she learned from her father (who assisted lessons of William Layton), Tom Radcliffe, Simon Furness and Gary Condes with whom she trained at the “Actor’s Temple” in London.
Alessandro studied Cultural Heritage at the Università Statale di Milano and thereafter took dance and theater classes, amongst others with Claudio Orlandini at "Comteatro". He is a director, actor and theater teacher and founded the theater group "Salti Teatrali", which is based in Milan, Italy. His idea of theatre is based on using the essential of gesture and language.
The course will be held in English. A basic knowledge of English is sufficient to participate.
Interested?
For more information please contact us
by e-mail or telephone: +352 621 474 171
réalisé avec le concours du
Fonds Culturel National du Luxembourg