The Michael Chekhov Technique Intensive

WELCOME TO THE INSTANT INSPIRATION OF THE CHEKHOV TECHNIQUE!
This is where your inspiration, your emotional availability, and your physical freedom starts!

• Technique training is the foundational class that teaches you how to keep psychophysically FIT and ABLE for any and all acting jobs and challenges.

• You will learn to harness your psychophysical imagination, build, strengthen, and sustain your acting muscles, your emotional availability, connection with your creativity, your artistic self, and with your fellow players.

• We will explore the very foundation of the actors' ability for presence, freedom, specificity, being on impulse, and creating moments that follow the script's story and text, but are born as new & surprising, every time, on stage and in front of camera.
  
  CHEKHOV TECHNIQUE I & II
  ONLINE
  8 WEEK INTENSIVE
  Wednesdays 9m-11am PST
  February 18th - April 8th
  On Zoom

  CHEKHOV TECHNIQUE III
  IN-PERSON
  9 WEEK INTENSIVE
  Tuesdays 12pm-3pm in person
  March 3rd - April 28th
  Madilyn Clark Studios, North Hollywood
  
  PRESENCE OF THE ACTOR
  CHEKHOV TECHNIQUE I
  Mondays 9am-11am PST
  May 4th - 25th
  On Zoom

  
  

Why Study Technique before and between scene study?

Marjo-Riikka was recently asked a valid question:
"Why must an actor study technique, why not just do scene study"

So she gave it some thought, and here is her answer:

“It's in the technique class that the actor learns to engage with her/his creative spirit, imagination and artistic individuality, and it is in the technique class that the actor develops a physical body that is capable and available to be of use in her/his profession.

In other words, the actor learns how to CREATE, to truly be in the moment, go beyond the intellect, improvise and be fully alive within-, without- and between the lines, and where the actor's body, psychology, breath and imagination becomes one WHOLENESS, that can express the actor's artistic impulses with ease, and specificity.

So that the characters we play, are not squeezed out of our cold cynical intellect, or text "interpretation", but can actually arrive into us, play with us, from the world of infinitive amount of possibilities.

Having developed your actor's instrument, and your artistic individuality in the technique class, you have learnt to become a "self directing"-actor, the kind that has several fully committed possibilities and options to offer to the casting director, and your director.

And you can now freely take direction, without taking it personally.
You have learned to flow into any task INSPIRED!”

Marjo-Riikka Makela