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METHOD ACTING CONSERVATORY

The conservatory takes place over nine (9) months. It teaches every participant how an actor must train their three instruments: inner life, physical body and imagination (subconscious). Throughout the conservatory actors are challenged to look within themselves to achieve rich, organic and believable performances that are real. The acting programme is broken up into three (3) separate workshops: Foundation (3 months) | Intermediate (3 months)* | Advanced (3 months)*

FOUNDATION

The Foundation program is designed to help actors access their inner emotional lives to enhance their performance. The course challenges actors to be honest, open, naïve, vulnerable, and sensitive, and teaches concentration, relaxation, and comfort skills to deliver truthful performances. The program covers emotional triggers, beginning with Emotional Memory, and teaches organic delivery of dialogue. Scene work follows, and the program culminates in an Actor's Showcase where every participant performs several scenes and a monologue at the studio.

ADVANCED

The Advanced Programme is for professional actors to enhance their skills in Method Acting for on-camera scenes and staged productions. Participants must have completed JGSPA's previous workshops. The program covers textual comprehension, language, narrative structure, script, camera, light, lensing, and editing, with weekly script analysis and scene preparation for on-camera shoots. Improvisation is taught as a Method Acting tool, and movement and sense awareness skills are expanded upon. The program culminates in a professional theatre production performed for the public.

Intermediate

The Intermediate program sharpens Method Acting tools through introspection, targeting each participant's inner life, physical instrument, and imagination. The workshop teaches skills to fully experience emotional center, script, and scene, with regular scene work challenging actors to make bold choices. The program builds rich, believable characters that arc throughout the script, beginning with Sense Memory exercises and culminating in a deeper understanding of self and character.

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