In this workshop, participants will explore, develop, and attain the self-awareness necessary to guide them through the actor’s training process. The pedagogical methods will provide to participants the tools needed to capture and maintain stage presence through an enhanced understanding of blocking techniques and the generation of new techniques that will help the creative artist to grow. The workshop is designed to be effective for actors with both extensive and minimal experience.

The purposes for theater training and acquiring tools to develop stage presence are not limited to theater. Training in theater, exploring the meanings behind the expressive and communicative arts, also creates conditions for participants to employ these tools in their daily lives. Acquiring these tools will help with personal development and improve your interactions with people in situations far beyond the theater.

The workshop will also enable actors to work and interact with playwrights and directors within the same school, which will further enrich development, discovery, and the exploration of self-awareness.

$175.00 for all 44 hours

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Walter Ventosilla
Walter was born in Lima, Peru. He is a storyteller, playwright, and director. He has published several books: Cuentos de Tierra y Eucaliptos (1982) (Stories of Earth and Eucalyptus), Asunción (1994), the novel Luis bandolero Luis (2005) (Luis Outlaw Luis) and the book of stories A quien corresponda (2008) (To Whom It May Concern). Walter is recognized in the book En el Camino, Nuevos Narradores Peruanos de la Generación del 80 (Along the Way, New Peruvian Storytellers of the ‘80’s) and in Antología General del Cuento Peruano 1900 – 1999 (Anthology of Peruvian Stories). As a playwright, he has published the plays Obras de Teatro para la Mujer (Plays for Women) and Antología del Nuevo Teatro Peruano. (New Peruvian Theater Anthology). He has won awards from national and international organizations for storytelling and theater, including Fundación Ciudad de Requena in Spain. In 1987 he was selected as one of the ten most creative youths in Peru. As a director, he has participated in national and International events, and worked masters Tony Cots of Dinamarca Odin Theatre, Fumiyoshi Asai of the Toyko Kanze Opera, among others. In 1990, he translated his children’s play El Lago Encantado (The Enchanted Lake) to French, which opened in Paris, Fance, the same year; and in 2000, he translated his play Para danzar a la vida (Dance for Life) to English, which opened in New York City. In 2010 he directed Oh!yantay with theater group Rasgos for New York’s LaTea theater. He has written several plays which were performed from Uruguay to Chile. Ventosilla is currently working on a collection of his complete works and a textbook on attaining El conciente inconciente del actor (The Actor’s Unconscious Consciousness). He has directed the New York staging of Inti Raymi, the Sun Feast with more than fifty actors and actresses, performed outdoors since 2007.