Authentic Performance: Freeing the Actor's Body
Join Brenda Leadlay in a six-week physical training course for actors, dancers and performing artists that encourages emotional risk-taking and identifies behavioural patterns that limit expression. The core of the work is based in 'plastiques —a methodology developed by Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski. Plastiques are simply physical isolations-movement explorations of one body part at a time in every direction it can move. The work builds heightened awareness, confidence and gives people the freedom to be who they are in a safe, supportive and fun environment.
How to Register
Where: Morrow Studio
910 Richards Street, Unit 204, Vancouver
The course runs every Wednesday beginning April 23rd to May 28th from 6-9PM, for $200 for six classes.
Register by email: brenda.leadlay@gmail.com or phone: 604-562-9538
About Brenda
Brenda Leadlay is a professional theatre artist, educator and producer with an MFA in directing. She was the artistic executive director of the Magnetic North Theatre Festival at the National Arts Centre, the artistic and managing director of Presentation House and Tamahnous Theatre and the founder of the Chutzpah! Festival. Brenda has studied performance techniques with internationally acclaimed theatre practitioners Andre Gregory, Yurek Bogayevicz, Linda Putnam, Yoshi Oida, Monika Pagneux and Stephen Wangh. She has taught movement at the William Davis Centre for Acting and Carousel Theatre and is also a certified hatha yoga teacher.