Classes – Keni Cohen

These classes will give students the tools they will need to develop into well-rounded and accomplished actors, ready to take the stage with confidence and joy. Even if the student does not aspire to be a professional performer, these classes will teach discipline and improve the social skills of listening and reacting. Students will engage their imaginations and voyage through the art of storytelling. Most of all they will experience working in a non-competitive creative ensemble.

The exercises will enable students to free up their physical expression, minds, and imaginations, helping them to articulate their feelings and thoughts. Students will be asked to look inward as well as outward, helping them connect with the world they live in with intelligence, empathy, and empowerment.

These classes would be a gift to anyone who takes them!

Group Lessons

ACTING 1:

BUILDING THE ACTOR’S FOUNDATION

Action-Reaction, Listening, Corporal Expression, Articulation, Tableaux, and Imagination
Character, Relationship, Objective, Where, Obstacles, and Tactics
Environment, Five Senses, Emotional Range, Truth, and Voice

ACTING 2:

SCENE STUDY AND WORKING WITH A SCRIPT

Analyzing a Text, Beating a Script, Utilizing Given and Imagined Circumstance
Creating A Believable Character
Developing Two-Person Scenes and Monologues

ACTING 3:

ADVANCED SCENE STUDY

Developing Content and Deeper Exploration
Introduction to Different Perspectives and The Art of The Actor – Brecht, Grotowski, Artaud, Spolin, Decroux, and Stanislavsky
Developing Group and Choral Scenes

IMPROVISATION:

THE ART OF LISTENING

Be Here Now – Yes And…
Creating Complete Scenes Without a Script
Various Formats, Techniques, and Games

PHYSICAL COMEDY:

COMEDY TECHNIQUE

Mime, Pratfalls, Exaggeration, and Character Creation
Burns, Builds, Timing, Fixed Points, and Magic Three
Classic Scenes and Creating Comedic Sketches

Private Lessons

AUDITION COACHING

Monologue Development
Cold Reading Coaching
Memorization Techniques

PREPARING FOR A PLAY

Analyzing Scripts
Character Development
Applied Methodology

“Keni has ideas, energy, and a fun-loving attitude. I have seldom worked with an artist that has such respect from the students and for the students”

– Rick Lemberg

Decatur Elementary School

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