Business Acting II
is an opportunity to practice & to
become proficient at the principles & practical techniques taught in the
first Business Acting course.
Essentially, this second course is tailored to the needs of the individual
participants, the focus being solving issues of personal confidence,
"stretching the envelope", commanding the space, & fully
achieving the later Stages in the Seven Stages to Expressive Power. The goals of the course include greater
expressive power in business communications & acquiring the building blocks
of charisma.
The
participants identify their individual challenges in personal business
communications, & accept the challenge to meet them head on. In this course, the later stages -- Stage 5
(Personal Artistic Risk) & Stage 6 (Specificity, Editing, Refocusing,
Re-Grounding & Economy) & Stage 7 (Ease, Efficacy & Mastery) -- can
be pragmatically addressed & mastered.
Key take-aways of this course are:
a) personal confidence in
public;
b) greater control in using
diversity in performance;
c) stretching your comfort zone;
d) achieving a sense of power
& command of a space;
e) greater confidence in
utilizing involving your humor & humanity;
f) & greater assurance that
the Forms you present are integrated with the Substance of what you are
communicating.
The participants
are encouraged to make bold choices, & to be daring & fearless in
public.
Class work is comprised of
diverse monologues, &/or duet scenes or improvisations. The provided monologues are gathered into
different groups, including Assertive, Reflective, Extreme or “Out There”,
Comic & Shakespeare/Verse monologues.
(At least one of a participant’s chosen monologues must be from the
Comic monologues.) While these materials will be provided to you, you may also
bring in possibilities yourself – subject to approval. You could also volunteer to bring in a short
presentation or the beginning of a presentation, if that might more directly
address a problem you have identified.
Videotaping of
performances could be involved – but only if desired by the individual
participant; any video would be handed to each participant at the end of taping
for their private viewing only. (11/10/GH)
