Bean Dip Production's ACTING FOR ACTION! Workshop will give attendees some of the basic building blocks that go into film acting as a craft, and action as a performance art.

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The section will be an introduction into acting - focusing on the ideas of using your body, emotions, and vocal patterns to help create a character.

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The second will delve into the world of action. Combining notions of stunt work, martial arts, and fitness to explain the ideas and concepts of what the body is capable of, you will be taught how to take a punch, how to throw a punch, how to fall, how to behave on the ground, and many more aspects of what makes Action convincing.

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Next, you will focus on basic choreography: situational “scenes” that actors are likely to run into that involve physical acting and will include lines of dialogue that we'll decide upon collectively.

Then final section takes the choreography that we’ve established and incorporates it into the scene. Keith as director and Trevor as action director will provide scripted scenes for the actors that utilize the movements they have already been training along with other directing approaches that actors are likely to encounter.  

 

Thus, driving home the idea that physical action is just as flexible as an actor’s choice.

It informs the character and is simultaneously informed by the character. So often we perceive action as its own separate sequence within a piece.  But, in reality it is a part of the story, a part of a character's response.  It is an interaction that can be just as defining as a conversation or a soliloquy.

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