Training in Michael Chekhov Acting Technique
Ongoing training in the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique is taught in year round sessions of classes, weekend intensives, and special workshops.
“As soon as we begin to develop our bodies, voices, and emotions, we begin to get our professional actor’s technique, and as soon as we have our technique, we can start the creative process - and what will it be?” Michael Chekhov
Click here – About Chekhov Studio Chicago’s Program
Classes are taught by Dawn Arnold, Certified Michael Chekhov Teacher and Artistic Director of Moving Dock Theatre Company/Chekhov Studio Chicago.
HOLD THAT THOUGHT……..
IN PERSON WILL RETURN SHORTLY…..
ONLINE CLASSES CONTINUE!
Let’s keep moving… with ease…keep radiating…
Let’s continue to connect online, developing our artistic ability in our home studios with our supportive, global colleagues.
Let’s be with our artistic selves in a vital, creative way, exploring our art privately in preparation for giving our art in public performance.
FALL CLASSES IN THE ONLINE STUDIO
Explorations in Michael Chekhov Acting Technique
Monologues – Finding the Life in the Solo Scene
Taught by Dawn Arnold
Ten week class meeting once a week via Zoom
Actors prepare and perform monologues on their own. Yet, when they perform, it must seem as though it is a living moment of a full play or film. Let’s welcome this challenge with the tools of the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique. Explore monologues in this ten week deep dive, developing your understanding of the character and the play, finding the action in the monologue, discovering the responsive, living moment.
The aim in this class is to develop active, truthful responsiveness in imagined circumstances with imagined partners. To facilitate this, we will practice with our ensemble members using Chekhov’s tools of gesture and sensation. Then we can play a dynamic, solo performance.
Choose monologues that will serve you in upcoming auditions and/or that fuel your imagination and creative impulses! Previous study of Chekhov Technique is required for this class.
Chekhov Essentials
Build Your Chart of Inspired Acting
Taught by Dawn Arnold
Ten week class meeting once a week via Zoom
Mondays, October 4 – Dec 6, 2021 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM CT US “By means of the suggested psychophysical exercises the actor can increase his inner strength, develop his abilities to radiate and receive, acquire a fine sense of form, enhance his feelings of freedom, ease, calm, and beauty, experience the significance of his inner being, and learn to see things and processes in their entirety.” Michael ChekhovBegin or renew your study of the Essentials of the Chekhov Technique as found in Chekhov’s book, To The Actor. Experience the ideas and tools of Chekhov’s approach to the art of the actor. Each week we will hone in on one of the tools of the Chekhov Technique, working improvisationally and with monologues, building your own Chart of Inspired Acting.
Study the dynamic principles of the art of the actor
Develop your instrument – your wise actor body
Learn Chekhov’s creative process
Learn the tools of the technique including the Psychological Gesture
Each ten week class fee:
$ 295/$ 265 with Studio Membership*
(*Studio Membership is $100 for a year of discounted fees.)
Installment payment available.
Sign up for Class
1) E-mail us at ChekhovStudioChicago Actors new to our Studio will interview by email. 2) You will be sent an invoice for the class fee (plus $5 processing fee) to process online.
*CHEKHOV STUDIO CHICAGO MEMBERSHIP
PRIVATE COACHING
Work one-on-one with Acting Coach Dawn Arnold. Prepare material for auditions or develop roles for your professional work. Sessions are arranged by email and phone. Coaching can also be done via Facetime, Skype, or Zoom. Click here for more info: COACHING
Bring Chekhov Studio Chicago’s Workshops to you
Our Art of the Actor workshops in the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique and creative process for rehearsals are available to schools (high school, college, university) and theatre companies through our Guest Workshops and Residencies.