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2010 SCHEDULE BOSTON AREA
FOR DAENA'S WORKSHOPS

WEEKLY IMPROVISATIONAL ACTING AND MOVEMENT CLASSES

Improvisation Acting Lab

Special One Day Workshop

The Tools You Need for Great Presentations and Performances

Next Workshop
AUGUST 16, 2010

Monday, 9:30 am - 3:30 pm
in Watertown, MA

To register for this one-day workshop:
Call 617-924-9596
E-Mail daena@daenagiardella.com
or register safely using PayPal


Improvisation Acting Lab

4 Week Monday Evening Series

The Tools You Need for Great Presentations and Performances

Dates Next Series To Be Announced

To register for this 4 week workshop:
Call 617-924-9596
E-Mail daena@daenagiardella.com
or register safely using PayPal


Everytime you interact with someone, you become an improvisational actor.

A job interview. An audition. A cocktail party. A simple phone call. In each case, you become your own writer. Your own director. Your own actor. No day goes according to plan. No meeting goes as nticipated. No casual conversation plays out according to a script. But the talents you'll develop in this workshop are the next best thing.

Here are some of the skills you'll learn:

  • Create scenes that are dynamic, specific, and interesting
  • Create and develop believable characters
  • Create spontaneous monologues
  • Communicate with confidence and presence
  • Authenticity, risk-taking, and boldness
  • Teamwork and ensemble skills
  • Physical and vocal freedom

Even performing artists can polish their acting chops.

Just as life doesn't go by a script, the film and TV industries are relying on improvisations to develop scenes. So even seasoned actors could benefit from brushing up on their improv skills.

Good scenes begin with the right setting.


Stretching and pushing yourself works best if you feel safe. The right environment is essential. In Daena's Improvisation Acting Lab, you'll learn in a fun and supportive atmosphere where trust underlies everything we do.

Meet Daena.

Daena has dual backgrounds in the performing arts and in organizational development and coaching. An actor, director and consultant, she has spent over 25 years combining these disciplines and, in the process, pioneered an innovative method for teaching improvisation to people from virtually every profession.


"There's no getting around it. We live in an unscripted world. You can rehearse in front of a mirror till the cows come home -- for that job interview, for that meeting where you're expected to speak, for the moment when you finally walk up to that very attractive person at the gym and introduce yourself. But the minute there's another person involved, the script goes out the window. If you mean to make an impression, you have to be able to think on your feet, hurl yourself into the moment, and improvise."
CNN, August, 2008

Daena has pioneered a popular, innovative, and movement based approach for teaching improvisational acting to people from all walks of life. Her insightful coaching, mastered over 25 years of practice, helps students become versatile improvisers and actors. Classes include participants from all levels of experience. Beginners welcome!



Your Creative Process

Next Dates to be announced soon!

Is it time for you to make a date with your creativity?

YOUR CREATIVE PROCESS is a laboratory where you can cultivate a deeper, more active relationship to your unique creative expression, while working on specific projects or goals from week-to-week in class. Our focus will be on each person's process of creation.

Do You Need Support and Inspiration to Get into the Flow of Your Creative Process?

Each week we:

  • Invite new inspiration
  • Find focus & motivation to avoid procrastination
  • Overcome blocks & stuck places
  • Get support & feedback
  • Learn how to deal with the inner critic & resistance
  • Identify where you are in the universal cycles of creativity
  • Create realistic goals & get a handle on your habitual personal patterns
  • Reconnect with your passion

Do You Have Unfinished Creative Projects Tucked Away in Your Closet, Notebooks, or Mind?

YOUR CREATIVE PROCESS is designed for people who are looking to jump-start, rediscover, support, or simply explore their creative passion as well as those who are currently working on a specific project. Open exploration as well as focus on particular goals are welcome. You'll have the opportunity to create the kind of experience that fits your current creative needs.

The key ingredient in this laboratory workshop is the creation of an atmosphere of trust, safety, and mutual support so that experimentation, risk taking, insight, and honesty might unfold. Be assured of plenty of humor too!

For registration or other info
call 617-924-9596
or E-Mail daena@daenagiardella.com

You can also register safely and securly using PayPal. Just click on the link below.


IMPROVISATION WORKSHOPS

Next Weekend Workshop

Call or e-mail for next starting dates.

The One Day Workshop format offers participants a uniquely concentrated focus on the skills of acting improvisation. It is ideal for people who wish to explore and deepen their improvisational practice through a more intensive all day experience. It is also an excellent opportunity for people who are unable to attend a weekly class or for others who would like to get a "taste" of Daena's approach before embarking on a full commitment to an ongoing training.

For More info on
"Acting From The Moment"
IMPROVISATION WORKSHOPS
Call 617-924-9596 or email daena@daenagiardella.com


Individualized private coaching available!

Daena Offers Private Coaching Sessions

Daena's one-on-one coaching sessions are individually tailored to address the needs and goals of each person. You can choose from a variety of focus areas, including:

  • learning effective presentation skills as you develop physical and verbal flexibility
  • exploring and cultivating Your Creative Process
  • preparing for an audition, play, presentation or job interview
  • enhancing your communication skills and self-expression
  • exploring your life/work choices & transitions
  • overcoming performance anxiety and stage fright

Daena also coaches writers and performers who are interested in generating or honing original material for stage, fiction, or memoir projects.

FOR MORE DETAILS CALL: 617.924.9596
or e-mail
daena@daenagiardella.com

THEATRE RETREATS

Theatre Retreat Workshops


Stay Tuned for Next Dates!


For over 20 years Daena has been offering THEATRE RETREAT WORKSHOPS in beautiful natural settings away from the stresses of everyday life where participants have the opportunity to practice the skills of acting and movement improvisation in a format that creates expansiveness of time and space. Recently Daena has been thrilled to bring a 5-day workshop to the profoundly inspiring beauty of New Mexico.


Go to "Theatre Retreats in Nature" for enthusiastic responses from New Mexico Theatre Retreat participants.

FOR MORE DETAILS CALL: 617.924.9596
or e-mail
daena@daenagiardella.com

 

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