Thursday acting class

As foundational work, we do exercises that help us feel our body and its impulses and to be in contact with our inner world and our creativity. Breathing plays an important role in this. We work on the opening of our senses as well as on our relationship with space and our partners. We train on theater, film or literature texts that are chosen according to the desires and needs of the participants. We establish a balance between the meaning of the text, our movements, our voice and our emotions to transform what is written into living words and to metamorphose ourselves into someone else. The journey can lead us into comedy, tragedy, drama, epic theater or realism. And perhaps, we make small detours through the mask, the chorus, the jester, the mime... The work can be done in French but also in other languages, and presentations in front of an audience are possible. Constant and precise feedback makes you progress in an effective way. You learn to understand the work to become more and more autonomous. This allows you to apply it in your personal projects, whether they are artistic, pedagogical, therapeutic... Accompanied in a competent and benevolent way, the range of your possibilities as an artist-actor expands. Your acting becomes more accurate and freer and your presence is strengthened. The teacher: Phil Kaiser has been a drama teacher for over 25 years. He acquired his experience as a teacher at the "Kleine Academie" (three-year professional theatrical training), at the scenography department of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure of the Beaux Arts "La Cambre", all in Brussels, as well as at the "Erika-Klütz" dance academy in Hamburg. Various institutions in Belgium and Germany invite him as a pedagogue. Phil Kaiser is also an actor, director and author. He has conceived and directed numerous theatrical productions that have toured in Belgium and abroad. He studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure of Arts in Hamburg and at the Kleine Academie in Brussels. In Berlin, he followed a training course for breathing teachers. He also holds a State diploma as a movement and dance teacher. Since 2016 he has been leading the Actor's Workshop. The participants: amateurs, semi-professionals and actors in the process of professionalizing. From the third class, the number of participants is limited to 7 or 8 people to guarantee personalized support. Thanks to Florian Ziemen, Maria Gibert and Suse Tietjen (director of the Erika-Klütz-Schule Hamburg) for being able to use the photos.