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Create Your Character

Explore the different layers within your character and create depth through imagination and (inner) movement. Experience how ‘breaking the heart’ or ‘maintaining composure while your inner world collapses’ makes your character lifelike and resonates with the audience.

In Create Your Character, we work with psychological gesture, imagination body, imagination center, and personal atmosphere. These are tools from the Michael Chekhov acting technique that help us explore how you can bring your character to life without falling into clichés. How you can unravel and use the inner dynamics clearly in a dialogue. How the imagined body of your character can guide you to achieve lively, authentic acting. And how you become the instrument to make your character’s unique inner world palpable for your audience.

Not by talking about it, analyzing, or psychologizing, but by doing. By listening to your imagination and following the impulses, logic, and actions that arise from it.