Adult Classes

 

About our Adult Classes:

Visionbox does not believe in one approach to training. The pursuit of truth in acting and art is at the core of our intention and any technique or tool that helps the actor reveal this truth is of value to the work. Classes will focus on character development, behavior, objectives, actions and language. Playwrights selected for study in class will include but are not limited to: Chekhov, Tennessee Williams, Brecht, the Greeks and Shakespeare. Audition classes will be offered on an ongoing basis.

How to Enroll:

All artists, actors, and students interested in classes must sign up for an audition with Jennifer McCray Rincon and other staff. Most auditions include two monologues, one contemporary, and one Shakespearean verse. The audition is primarily a way for us to get to know each other and to ensure you’re placed in a class that will be challenging and suited to your level of experience and training.

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Visionbox will accept up to 16 actors for each class. In order to schedule an audition with Jennifer McCray Rincon and Visionbox Staff, email us at info@visionbox.org or call  720-810-1641. 

We will also accept directors and playwrights into the classes. Directors and writers should schedule an interview with Ms. Rincon for more information on the class.


Class Offerings

Chekhov Advanced Scene Study

Dates: March 26 – April 28 2013

Tues/Fri, Wed/Fri 6-9pm

Open Rehearsal April 21

Tuition: $400

Location: 910Arts

This class will continue to explore both the foundations of professional technique and their application to the plays of Anton Chekhov.  Actors who have never studied at Visionbox are welcome and always encouraged to participate in Chekhov scene study as the foundation for all acting study and practice.  Actors who have worked at Visionbox are also urged to consider this class as a return to these plays at different moments in your life and career can be challenging and instructive.
While rehearsing and presenting scenes from all of Chekhov’s plays, there will be a special focus placed on Three Sisters.  Visionbox is looking at a contemporary American adaptation of this play for future production and some of the new translation and approach will be rehearsed in this class.

 

Tennessee Williams Advanced Scene Study

Matthew Blood-Smyth, Sophia Johnson-Grimes, and MacKenzie Beyer in The Lady of Larkspur Lotion by Tennessee Williams

Matthew Blood-Smyth, Sophia Johnson-Grimes, and MacKenzie Beyer in The Lady of Larkspur Lotion by Tennessee Williams

Dates: February 12 – March 17 2013

Tues/Fri, Wed/Fri 6-9pm

Open Rehearsal March 17 at 910Gallery

Tuition: $400

Location: 910Arts

This advanced scene study class is an in-depth examination of the work of Tennessee Williams.  While all classes focus on behavior, objectives, and actions, there will be special emphasis on character and language in this sequence.  Students will be asked to select scenes from Williams’ major works, including but not limited to, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Summer in Smoke, and Orpheus Descending.  At the end of five weeks, students will perform a collage piece interweaving characters and scenes from the work as an Open Rehearsal.

Suggested reading: Memoirs by Tennessee Williams (autobiography), 27 Wagons Full of Cotton by Tennessee Williams, any of his full-length plays.  Also recommended: films Streetcar by Elia Kazan, Fugitive Kind by Sidney Lumet.

 

Skinner Releasing Technique and Movement Improvisation for Actors

Instructor:  Robert Davidson

Dates: Thursdays, 6:00-9pm, February 14, 21, 28, March 7, and 14

Location: 910 Santa Fe Drive, Studio 11

Limited to 12 Students 

Tuition: $250 (payment plans available on request and limited scholarships available)

SRT is an innovative movement training for actors, dancers, musicians, non-athletes, therapists–artists of all kinds–that cultivates ease, dynamic range, and creativity in movement.  This process-oriented technique flows from a nearly effortless state of being, allowing us to overcome our habits, idiosyncrasies, and impediments to moving naturally and freely.  Emphasis is on poetic, non-intellectual imagery and also hands-on work in partners combined with breath awareness.  These five classes will include occasional discussion of aesthetics and technique, writing briefly after class, and the possibility for improvisation in which form emerges on its own.  This course is a precursor to further creative work integrating creative movement and voice.

 

Acting Music

Instructors: Jennifer McCray Rincon and Robert Davidson

Dates: Saturdays, 1-4pm, February 16, 23, March 2, 9, 16

Location: 910 Santa Fe Drive, Studio 11

Limited to 12 Students 

Tuition: $350 (payment plans available on request and limited scholarships available)

Students will work on music from plays, musicals and pop music with Robert Davidson as music director and music coach and Jennifer McCray Rincon as acting coach.  This class is designed for any actor with or without a musical background.  The emphasis will be on the acting of songs in live performance and preparation of audition material.

 

American Playwrights Scene Study

Maggie Whittum and Dell Domnik in a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

Maggie Whittum and Dell Domnik in a scene from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

Dates: January 8 – February 8 2013

Tues/Fri, Wed/Fri 6-9pm
Open Rehearsal, February 10
Tuition: $400
Location: 910 ARTS

There is no prerequisite for this class, but actors who have taken any of the Chekhov sequences are strongly urged to apply for this sequence.  One playwright will be selected each week, actors will be asked to read a play, there will be some lecture on the spine of the play, the life and style of the writer, and two person scenes will be selected for in-depth scene study.

Actors must commit to a minimum of two three-hour classes per week.  Depending on the numbers, those classes will meet separately on Tuesdays or Wednesdays with a combined class each Friday.  Actual days selected will be subject to change based on student availability.
Plays being considered for full production at Visionbox in 2013 will be part of the class study.  Some titles being considered are Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (biracial production), and a television series on acting technique that will include selections from Tennessee Williams’ 27 Wagons Full of Cotton.  Any actors participating in this five-week technique class will have opportunities to participate in 2013 project and production work.
All students interested in this sequence must sign up for an interview/audition with Jennifer McCray Rincon and Visionbox staff.  Please email info@visionbox.org to set up an interview/audition or with any further questions.

 

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