THE AUGUST ACT PROGRAM

The August Act Program is an acting program developed in collaboration with with Momentum Acting Studio.
You may view Robbie and Liza’s work at Momentum Studio in Dublin here:
 
This program consist of 4 stages. You can join each class separately or join the full program and be part of all 4 stages.
 
Besides these 4 stages there are 4 additional classes which can be joined independently fromthese four stages.
 
We are asking each candidate for this workshop to send a brief “motivational” self tape recorded with cell phone. Please just tell us where you are from, a bit about what you’ve been doing, let us know about any previous exposure to act training you’ve had, and finally, what you hope to gain from the one week intensive here in Amsterdam. Having this profile also helps us choose text material to use for each actor to work with during the workshop. Please forward your self tape to: AugustActProgram@gmail.com
 
Dates, 4 weeks in total:
Stage I: Let’s Make a Scene
Stage II: Steal the Scene
Stage III: Emotional Preparation
Stage IV: From Text to Screen/ Stage

4 additional classes:

  • Cold Reading Skills
  • Musical Theatre Interpretation 
  • Beyond Acting Habits
  • The Lab -Scene and/or Monologues

Pay the Registration Fee to secure a place on the course.
Pay the Final Fee before the Course begins.

N.B. Don’t pay for the Course until  you have been accepted!

Apply for this Course

The August Act Program

The August Act Program consist of 4 stages. You can join each class separately or join the full program and be part of all 4 stages. 

The studio will be pleased to offer a fee reduction -per class- should anyone decide to take all four weeks of the August program. Please email us if you wish to take all four weeks, and we’ll arrange a pricing for the package of classes.

Dates:
Stage I: Let’s Make a Scene, August 8 – 13
Stage II: Steal the Scene, August 15 – 20
Stage III: Emotional Preparation, August 22- 27
Stage IV: From Text to Screen/ Stage, Aug. 29 – Sep. 3.
Duration: 4 weeks

 

Stage I:
Let’s Make a Scene, an Introduction to the craft of Acting

LET’S MAKE A SCENE: an Introduction to the craft of Acting

Let’s Make a Scene

an Introduction to the craft of Acting – Stage I 

Discover the tools to reveal your genuine human versatility through a scene. From Strasberg to Meisner, some of the acting secrets that bring true life to a text.
 
*This workshop works at Advanced Beginner/Intermediate level goals
*For the first half of day 6 of this workshop, we’ll conduct an Audition Technique segment.

Let’s Make a Scene

an Introduction to the craft of Acting – Stage I

Dates: Tuesday August 8 to Sunday August 13
6 Days.
Times: 2 – 7pm (5 hours)
Fee: € 450

 

Stage II
STEAL THE SCENE, deepen your Craft

STEAL THE SCENE:
deepen your Craft – Stage II

Discover the tools to structure your behavioural and emotional availability without losing spontaneity. From Strasberg, Adler, Meisner, draw how to make specific personal choices to shape your original authenticity. 
 
*This workshop works at Intermediate level goals. 

STEAL THE SCENE

deepen your Craft – Stage II

Dates: Tuesday August 15 to Sunday August 20
6 Days.
Times: 2 – 7pm (5 hours)
Fee: € 450

 

Stage III
Emotional Preparation, play the scale of your emotional range

EMOTIONAL PREPARATION: Play the scales of your emotional range

EMOTIONAL PREPARATION: Play the scales of your emotional range – Stage III 

How to deepen, shape and ground  your genuine emotional availability to serve a text while remaining in the moment and open to the variables of your partner and your director. Discover tools from Adler, Strasberg, Meisner
 
*This workshop works at Intermediate level goals.

EMOTIONAL PREPARATION

Play the scales of your emotional range – Stage III 

Dates: Tuesday August 22 to Sunday August 27
6 Days.
Times: 2 – 7pm (5 hours) Saturday and Sunday 2pm – 6pm
Fee: € 440

 

Stage IV
From Text to Screen/ Stage

From Text to Screen/Stage/ Stage

From Text to Screen/Stage – Stage IV

How to make a text yours and bring consistency to your take while remaining open and respectful of the writers and/or directors’ intentions. Learn to boil down the complexity of a text to a preparation personal and actable to put the text on its feet with seamless adaptability (Strasberg, Adler, Meisner, Mamet’s Practical Aesthetics).
 
*For the first half of day 6 of this workshop, we’ll conduct an Audition Technique segment.
 
*This workshop works at Intermediate/Advanced level goals.

From Text to Screen/Stage – Stage IV

Dates: Tuesday August 29 to Sunday September 3
6 Days.
Times: 2 – 6pm (4 hours)
Fee: € 380

Additional Classes

 

Cold Reading Skills

Cold Reading Skills

Cold Reading Skills

How to handle receiving a text on the spot and bring life to words you don’t know when under the pressure of auditioning.

Cold Reading Skills

Dates: Saturday August 26.
Times: 6:15pm – 10pm.
Fee: € 75

 

Musical Theatre Interpretation:
Boost your Audition Process

Musical Theatre Interpretation: Boost your Audition Process

Musical Theatre Interpretation:
Boost your Audition Process

Musical Theatre demands more than a nice voice. 
A 3 day workshop to rejuvenate your audition pieces by behaviourally and emotionally creating a direct link to the heart of your audience, carrying the story forward with a direct-able interpretation that you can make authentically yours.

Bring your audition piece(s) with a vocal background mp3 in your key.

Send mp3, lyrics and/or music sheet to AugustActProgram@gmail.com

Musical Theatre Interpretation

Dates: Sunday August 27th, Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th (3 Days).
Times: 6:15pm – 10pm.
Fee: € 190

 

Beyond Acting Habits

Beyond Acting Habits

Beyond Acting Habits

Reconnect reason & heart, mind & emotions and expand your imagination to function at your full potential. Through a series of exercises, you’ll become aware of the tensions you learnt to build in your body to hold back your emotions, then you’ll be able to gently unlock & use them to regain a wider, deeper emotional & imaginative range to nourish your acting palette.

*Open to actors, singers, dancers and artists of all backgrounds. Bring a pocket mirror, a notebook with pen or pencil, some tissues and some water. Wear clothes that you are comfortable in.

Beyond Acting Habits

Dates: Thu. August 31st.
Times: 6:15pm – 10pm
Fee: € 75

 

The Lab -Scene and/or Monologues

The Lab -Scene and/or Monologues

The Lab -Scene and/or Monologues

During these 4 hour workouts, bring whatever you want to work on. Need advice handling the challenges of the technical elements of a piece of text you want to try yourself out with? Or, if you want to bring in a monologue or a scene (or both) to work through. We will do so. And certainly, we encourage bringing in a scene or monologue of your very own ,original dramatic/comedic text.

The Lab -Scene and/or Monologues

Dates: Tuesday September 1st – Thursday 3rd (3 Days).
Times: 6:15pm – 10pm.
Fee: € 190

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