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As a teacher, I started by setting up
and running the Drama Centre Foundation course in 1991. I also work in
various prestigious British drama schools as a teacher of different acting
disciplines and as a visiting director. I have my own very individual
style of training, a result of my considerable years of experience and
all the workshops I continue to attend. I continuously redefine and reinvent
my work. I have run various courses related to acting at: Drama Centre
London - E15 Drama School – London Centre for Theatre Studies - The Science
of Acting School – CYTO – The Oxford School of Drama – The Courtyard -
Central School of Speech and Drama - and RADA. I enjoy, and can be particularly
useful, in giving actors a feel for passion and energy, through the use
of European writers and texts such as: Pirandello, Goldoni, Lorca, Sartre,
C. De La Barca, Ionesco, etc. I am a director that has had first hand
experience with the language, people and customs one is trying to recreate.
Being fluent in four European languages, I can also help with adjusting
some laboriously translated texts.
Some of the schools I have worked in are Universities and I am therefore
familiar with structuring class plans, curriculums, performance reports,
handouts etc.
I have had experience in structuring classes for the following:
1.0 |
Rehearsal
Exercise/Play Direction. At all levels; using all types
of texts and plays. |
2.0 |
Acting.
At all levels. And focusing on: |
2.1 |
Animal work.
Using observation and recreation, finding parallels between animal
sounds and character energy productions. |
2.2 |
Inner and
Outer Characteristics. An exploration of both Outer energies
and Inner life. I have a very unique approach to installing
the sensation of the “Inner Life” to the actor, with relevant exercises.
Incorporating also M. Chekhov’s psychological gestures linked to
the characteristics; using also characters’ voiced and platform
thoughts, phone calls etc. etc. |
2.3 |
Theatre games/exercises.
A succession of games to illustrate and enlighten students to the
demands of acting. Including: Private Moments, Singing exercises,
Improvisations. |
2.4 |
Working Actions.
Over the last few years I have specialised in teaching Rudolph
Laban’s Working Actions; adopting a very hands-on, physical,
and fresh approach to the subject. Pioneering new ground, and finding
a more immediate dynamic and practical application for Working Actions,
in answer to the challenges of acting and characterisation. Working
Actions Workouts, part movement and part spoken. Beats/change exercises.
Guided Improvisations. Text work. Characterisation work. Movement
work. |
2.5 |
Monologue
Techniques. A guided series of unique exercises to tackle monologues. |
3.0 |
Text Analysis.
The breakdown of text. Covering: beats, actions, activities, energy
productions. |
4.0 |
MaxiMix
I have developed a 3 hour actor’s workout I call the “MaxiMix”,
which I have been experimenting with more mature students. It is
a hard core emotional and physical release exercise and a lot more.
To be done in a big room (a dance studio preferably) with a good
sound system, some cushions and tissues! It has been proved to be
very very good: even if definitely not for the fainthearted. |
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“The Training starts
with the actor's work on himself. Once the decision has been made
to go down the “Acting” road a continuous process of self analysis
and observation must consciously start. And never stop. An actor
must learn to face himself, and to hide nothing from himself; and
to do so takes an insatiable curiosity about the human condition
and self awareness. That’s why actors spend a lot time and money
in therapy. TESTIMONIALS: "Dear massimo,thank you
so much for such a great lesson and inspiring chat yesterday, you
are truly an amazing person and teacher." "Dear Massimo, I wanted
to write and thank you for two crazy and memorable weeks on the
RADA Contemporary Theatre Course. On completion of the two weeks
I had not only rediscovered my passion for acting, but felt truly
alive for the first time in a number of years. I couldn’t have hoped
for a better (or more insane) director and was so pleased we got
you. Thank you again, it was a real pleasure working with you." "Hi Massimo, Just wanted
to say how much of an inspiration you were and still are to me as
a director and a teacher. You really pushed me and made me think
outside the box in terms of acting and I still use your techniques
when I have a good role to play." I am available for one-to-one tuition upon request. E-Mail me if interested. I will be
giving some seminars, sampling some of my work
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