“ACTING CONNECTION”
The Art Of Authentic Chemistry

In English & French

Monday, 6th May to Friday, 10th May 2024


2 options

Morning: 10 - 13 or Evening: 18 - 21

Location: Paris, 75010, France

Limited Places Available

When you're in the moment, you're authentic.
When you're authentic on screen or on stage, we can’t take our eyes off you.

Discover the tools to develop an authentic connection
and stay in the moment with your scene partners.

As professionals, we don't rely on magic; we create it so the audience believes.

Through a series of practical step-by-step exercises, the Momentum Direct-able Authenticity technique enables you to initiate and ground your connection with your scene partners, whether on set or on stage. This structured approach eliminates the ambiguity often associated with acting and equips you with practical professional skills.

With a more fluid and authentic emotional and behavioral availability, you bring spontaneity to your dialogue and interpretation, thereby enhancing the tangible humanity of your charisma.

Each actor will benefit from daily practice, with personalised guidance from both coaches, in English with Robbie, and in French with Liza, to nurture your progress and facilitate the developing growth of your abilities.

The adaptability of these tools will not only enhance your impact in navigating the challenges of a highly competitive industry but also empower you with this newly-revealed potential without leaving it to chance.

Educational Objective:
Acquire practical tools to create an authentic and palpable connection on screen as well as on stage, regardless of your scene partner.

Dates:
Monday, 6th May to Friday, 10th May 2024

Duration:
1 week training / 15 hours (3 hours per day) with 2 options:

  • Morning from 10am to 1pm
    OR

  • Evening from 6pm to 9pm

Technique:
Unprecedented in France, the Momentum Acting Studio's Direct-able Authenticity Technique is based on:

  • The Meisner Technique for its practicality

    • in anchoring the actor in the moment

    • with its ability to channel the actor's authentic humanity with specificity, flexibility, and consistency

    • without resorting to often traumatic impact of “Emotional Recall”.

  • The Alive Technique for its ability to unleash the actor's imaginative and emotional availability.

  • Certain elements of Lee Strasberg's Method for its physical relaxation and physical activation (energetic).

  • "Practical Aesthetics" by deepening its performative text analysis specifically for actors.

Combining and building upon their benefits enable the Direct-able Authenticity Technique to adapt precisely and deepen each participant’s process specifically.

At the end of the training, a collective assessment synthesises the learnings. Following on, a Q&A session allows participants to project their new skills into the immediate future of their careers and they will obtain specific guidance to achieve their respective personal goals. Upon request, each trainee receives a training completion certificate as well as an individual assessment.

Prerequisites:

  • The depth and details with which the Direct-able Authenticity technique enables you to address your acting are only relevant within a professional practice and mindset.

  • A sincere passion for acting truthful to human nature in the respect of the richness and complexity of its expression..

  • Understanding of English preferable but not necessary.

Participants:
This workshop is aimed at artists, who sincerely desire to bring a greater sense of truth, emotional depth, and flexibility to their work.

  • 18+

  • Professional actors and actresses

  • Performing artists in professional retraining (dancers, singers, gymnasts, circus performers, camera operators...)

  • Actors and actresses on the path to professionalisation with practice and experience on stage (see prerequisites)

  • Directors

  • Casting directors

  • Intimacy coordinators

  • Graphic Animators who wish to deepen their understanding of what prompts behaviour and deepen their ability to reproduce this accurate process in their animations of characters.

Training Location:
Paris 10th

Training Cost:
€370

Capacity:
12

Required Material:

  • Notebook and pen (physical, no smartphone or tablet assistance)

  • small mirror

  • tissues

  • drinking water