Professionals  |  Learn  |  Special Event Workshop: Directing & the Meisner technique Workshop with Pico Berkowitch

Place:
Centre national de l'audiovisuel - 1b, rue du Centenaire, L-3475 Dudelange, Luxembourg
Dates:
From 14.10.2023 at 09:00
to 06.11.2023 at 18:00
With:
Pico Berkowitch
Price:
Normal: 30€
Number of participants:
8

The work and the relationship between the director and the actor is a key issue in the making of a film. The direction of actors does not stop, as we often hear it said, at the time of the casting. It continues throughout filming through dialogue intended to guide the actor's creative process. Because the actor is a key part of the creation of a film and not just someone who puts himself in his mark and says the text "with conviction and feelings" - as the director would hear it in his head... A language exists, a mode of communication that helps the actor, which excites him and makes him want to play off the beaten track. Acquiring it is the objective of this workshop for directors, by alternating a presentation of the tools to its implementation in the form of exercises or scenes, under the direction of Pico Berkowitch. "Acting is the ability for the actor to live in complete truth, within the imaginary circumstances proposed by the author", says Sanford Meisner. He also adds, “Playing does not consist in saying a text, but in finding what makes the words of the dialogue necessary”. The actors, accompanied by Pico Berkowitch, will be able to discover the Meisner technique and apply it under the direction of the participating directors.

Deadline for sending applications: 15.09.2023 

Dates, Practical information and conditions of participation:

 

Actors ONLY:

Goals:

• The foundations of the Meisner technique.

• Implementation of listening training (Repetition exercise),

• Introduction to emotional preparation

• Notions of scene analysis

 

Pedagogy: based on the teaching structure proposed by Sanford Meisner.

Definition of an actor's workspace that systematically relies on the personalization of issues and the deliberate creation of a "life more alive than life". First applications of the principles that characterize this approach and its originality.

 

Dates: From Saturday 14 to Wednesday 18 October 2023

Location: National Audiovisual Center (CNA), 1B rue du Centenaire L-3475 Dudelange

Audience: Actors, actresses, members of actors.lu

Number of participants: 10 maximum

Entry fee: €30

 

Directors ONLY:

Goals:

• Acquisition of communication tools and a common language with the actors (action verbs, needs, objectives, etc.).

• Analysis and preparation of the scene with a view to working with the actors.

• Awareness of listening to the actors' performance and the importance of the "layer by layer" scene rehearsal process.

 

Pedagogy: alternation between presentation of tools and practices of these, in the form of exercises or scenes, where the directors will play under the direction of the speaker.

 

Dates: From Friday 20 to Tuesday 24 October 2023

Location: National Audiovisual Center (CNA), 1B rue du Centenaire L-3475 Dudelange

Audience: Directors, members of LARS

Number of participants: 8 maximum

Entry fee: €30

 

 

Actors AND Directors (compulsory participation):

Pooling of work through the filming of selected scenes with the directors and actors participating in the training.

 

Dates:

• From Thursday 26 to Saturday 28 October 2023: rehearsals and filming

• Monday, November 6, 2023: Viewing day and review

Location: National Audiovisual Center (CNA), 1B rue du Centenaire L-3475 Dudelange

Audience: Actors, actresses, directors, directors participating in the training

Deadline for sending applications: 15.09.2023

 

Application: Please send your CV and your latest achievements / performances (or link to your actors.lu page for actors) to formation@cna.etat.lu.

All applications will be treated with the utmost confidentiality by Mylène Carrière (CNA) and Pico Berkowitch.

 

Pico Berkowitch – filmmaker and trainer

Assisted various drama teachers in the United States and France (Barry Primus — actor and filmmaker, Judith Weston — teacher in Los Angeles, Bobby Lewis — founder of the Actors Studio…). He is a Certified Meisner Method Actor Training Instructor. Since 1991, he is coaching and teaching in Belgium, USA, Norway, Philippines, Lebanon, Switzerland and France. He has created weekly actors' workshops in Brussels, Paris and Geneva that offer a training place where actors can develop their tools. Apart from his coaching activities, Pico Berkowitch has made short films and documentaries. Currently he has several screenwriting collaborations in progress for directors in France and Switzerland as well as a feature film project and a television series in development.

 

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