Black Acting Methods

“In the Basement” with is an AMAZING, eye-opening experience that you don’t want to miss. Our next gathering is Thursday, March 19

It’s FREE! LINK IN BIO or email [email protected] to RSVP. See you soon! 💙🔥✊🏿

Performance Ensemble: Devising Fundamentals (LINK IN BIO) is an immersive course that challenges you to devise a new piece of theatre inspired by a historical figure or artifact. Led by instructors from the premier Black Acting Methods Studio, during this course, we’ll create a piece in conversation with the life of Sarah Baartman, a Black, South African woman who was enslaved and paraded around Europe due to her physical appearance.

In the Black Acting Methods Studio we work in the Luckett Paradigm, a performance methodology where we focus on a holistic approach to actor training—this includes mind, body, and spirit. Ultimately, you will become a more holistic performer by engaging in physical and generative theatre practices, which will help you develop skills for spontaneity, listening, and responding to your fellow ensemble members.

We’ll work on:

Core-Creation—building up the core of who you are

Orientation—helping you navigate uncomfortable spaces in your career and advocating for your needs in acting spaces;

Resuscitation—reading and critical conversations about your career path and the history and futures of acting

Dialogic Devising—having you write the material that you perform.

This process encourages you to bring your own stories and perspectives into play, culminating in a final public presentation of new work.