Instinct & Intimacy
4 Day Masterclass for Actors
Giles Foreman takes advanced participants through a
process developed by him which draws on various
interpretations of the Method and fuses them into a
practical cohesive whole, providing the participants
with a powerful pathway to achieving astonishingly
authentic, layered, complex characterization.
The course is intensive yet fun, and participants leave
with many tools and discoveries to add to their own
methodologies.
• Initially we look at ways of opening up and revealing
the self so as to achieve real intimacy in
performance. We plumb the actors’ resources,
opening them to parts of themselves they had
previously not accessed for their acting work. They
also discover methods which assist them to
dramatically increase their creativity in rehearsal, by
developing instinct and the ability to surrender to
impulses.
• This is followed by a rigorous system of textual and
character analysis influenced by the work of
Christopher Fettes and the Yat Malmgren system of
Movement Psychology.
• We then move on to developing truthful
characterization through a series of exercises – the
character object exercise, character private moment
and the character interview.
• We work on monologues and scenes from a
common text to be announced once we know the
basic make up of the group.
Requirements:
fluency in English
The workshop will follow a twofold process :
1. Intimacy : exploring the actors’’ intimate and private
space and training them to remove all obstacles and masks
that hinder on their ability to truly open up and embrace
any character with greater depth and sophistication.
Participants Max: 14
Venue: Maßmannstraße 2 ▴ 80333 München
Giles Foreman
Introduction to Intimacy Workshop
6 & 7 July, 2013
Instinct & Intimacy Actors’ Masterclass
5 - 8 July, 2013
2. Instinct : developing the actors’’ ability to trust and
follow their creative instinct and impulses arising from the
subconscious in order to add an element of uniqueness to
their interpretation of a given character.
Requirements: Actors of all levels with good fluency in
English are welcome.
Date & Time: 5-8 July 10:00 - 18:00
Participants Max: 14
Venue: Maßmannstraße 2 ▴ 80333 München
Cost: €165,-
Application for financial support in
Germany: GVL, FFA and Bildungsprämie
Experienced Actors with good
Date & Time: 5-8 July 10:00 - 18:00
Cost: €425,-
Introduction to Intimacy
2 Day Evening Workshop
The Acting Atelier Munich ▴ Lillweg 49 ▴ 80939 ▴ München
Ansprechpartnerin: Anne Alexander Sieder
M. 0171 6766461
www.sieder3.com/acting_atelier_munich
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Giles Foreman
The Acting Atelier Munich offers actors
in Munich the opportunity to take
workshops and masterclasses with
internationally acclaimed acting coaches
from America, the U.K. and from within
Germany.
He was a founder member of EuroCircles, a company
created to promote pan–European cultural exchange,
and has produced a variety of pieces from around
Europe, notably Lorca’s In Five Years Time, directed by
the Spanish director Marta Momblant-Ribas (Critics
Choice – Time Out and The Guardian), and an
installation / performance event The Krankenhaus from
Berlin. He worked with Visiting Arts (British Council) and
the Gate to bring Tbilisi’s Basement Theatre to the
Gate’s East Meets West season.
Giles Foreman
Giles Foreman is one of the leading acting coaches in
the UK and a specialist in the Methodological
approach to acting.
Giles has worked as an acting coach at the Drama
Centre, London; Deutsche Schauspiel Akademie, and
The Forum for Filmschauspiel, Berlin; Creative
Education, The City Lit, NODA, the Pula International
Festival of Theatre, Croatia; the International Festival of
Making Theater, Athens; Trixster in Paris, Algeria’s
National Theatre, and for Switzerland’s FOCAL. He has
run workshops all over the world and coached on the
Swiss movie Swiss Grounding, German film Sunny Hill,
a German / French / Swiss / Austrian co-production
Sennentuntschi, directed by Michael Steiner, Pedaleur
du Charme by Daniel von Aarburg, Romeos – a hit at
the recent Berlin Film Festival, directed by Sabina
Bernardi, and Ruhestoerung directed by Robert
Ralston. He also worked on the video for the Kooks
single Sway. He coaches many actors from all over
Europe privately, preparing them for a range of film
and TV roles: including Daniel Sharman on Immortals,
and members of the cast from X Men.
Giles Foreman trained as an actor at the Drama Centre,
London under the renowned Christopher Fettes,Yat
Malmgren and Reuven Adiv; an academy that produced a
host of Internationally celebrated actors including
Anthony Hopkins, Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan, Anne
Marie Duff, Paul Bettany, Michael Fassbender, Geraldine
James, Tom Hardy and many others.
Theatre credits include: Double Tongue (Border
Crossings), Don Quixote (Gate Theatre), The Island
(Eurocircles Tour – Georgia, Germany), A Language of
Love (GIFT Festival, BAC), Shivah (Royal National
Theatre), An Ideal Husband (Peter Hall Company,
Haymarket Theatre), Merlin, The Broken Heart (Arts
Threshold), Aubrey Beardsley in Beardsley (Stage One)
and Boffi in Pirandello’s As You Desire Me (New End). TV
credits include Bonekickers, Warwalks, The Bill and 100
per cent and his film work includes Trigger Tiger,
Napanee, The Cave, Summer Suite, Red Wolf and The
Changeling.
Directing work includes: Oedipus Rex (Arcola Theatre),
Richard III (Courtyard Theatre), Macbeth, and The Other
Side of the Wall (Tristan Bates Theatre), Hilda by Marie
Ndiaye (Pentameters Theatre and the Edinburgh Festival
for the Caravanserai), The Tempest (Central School of
Speech and Drama), Dr Faustus (The Caravanserai at the
Bridewell Theatre), Trenches (Pentameters). He co-wrote
and directed Kicking Oscar’s Corpse, Joan of Arc, The
Mayor of Zalamea, Britannicus, A Month in the Country,
Six Characters in Search of an Author, As You Like It
(Drama Centre, London), Party Time (Landor Theatre),
The Suspicious Truth by Juan Ruiz de Alarcon (Garage
Theatre) and Armenia – A Thousand Branches (Hellenic
Centre).
In 2005 he founded Caravanserai Productions
and Acting Studio alongside a group of
advanced students, and is the current
Director. In September 2011 the Studio was
renamed the Giles Foreman Centre for
Acting. He is the UK representative for the
Sahara Film Festival – FISAHARA