Revealing the Self

Acting Training Intensive with Jordan Dann

This 6-week workshop offers a deeply physical, vocal, and imaginative exploration of the actor’s instrument. The work will touch upon the following sources: Growtoski, Linklater technique, authentic movement & improvisation, Primitive Voice Work, and essential actor imagery work. This is a taste of some of the most daring and evocative work that Jordan has put together over the past 10+ years of her professional training.

DATES  

Monday evenings beginning March 12th – April 16th, 7 – 10pm

LOCATION  

The Art Pop Up Shop

672 Driggs Ave. (between Metropolitan and North 1st.)

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Workshop Fee: $550

FRAMEWORK FOR TRAINING: 

Class 1: Personalizing your instrument: Flow of feelings; surprise of feelings; tracking the illusive impulse; tracking the illusive action

Class 2: Personalizing Relationships: Partner Crossings; The Behavior Dial; The Power of Projection; An actor’s warm-up

Class 3: A Personalized Warm-up: Body River; Partner Crossings; Ensemble Transformations

Class 4: Personalizing the Ensemble: The individual in the ensemble; The Dangerous Ensemble

Class 5: The Life Exercise, 3 Circles Exercise and Art & Life

Class 6: Expanding Range:  ”Risks and Thrills”; Building character through Contradiction

Training is cumulative, commitment to the entire 6 weeks is required. Monthly payment program is available.

Jordan Dann is Brooklyn based actor, writer, director, and educator.  She has taught at NYU, Boston University, Colorado Mountain College; directed for Stella Adler Studios; manages the Hunts Point Children’s Shakespeare Ensemble with the Shakespeare Society; coaches voice and acting privately; and is the Artistic Director for Mud/Bone Collective.  As a producer, she started the Sunday Night Series at Theatre Aspen (Aspen, CO), and she is the creator of Story Swap International.  She has a B.F.A. in Acting, an M.F.A in Theatre Education from Boston University, and she is a Linklater Voice Technique teacher trainee.

Jordan has trained with the following individuals and has experience in the following areas:  Luis Colaianni’s Phonetic Pillows; Jon Lipsky’s Dream Work for Actors; Jean-Rene Toussaint’s Primitive Voice Work; Stephen Wangh’s Approach to Physical Acting; Linklater Voice Technique with Andrea Haring and Paula Langton; Drama Therapy with the Therapeutic Arts Alliance Manhattan (TAAM); Experience with Psychoanalytic Group Work; and she is a certified Ashtanga Yoga Teacher. jordandann.com