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WorKSHops > Subscription to Artfilms-digital allows students, faculty, and public library members to watch PHysical & visual THeatre > high quality streaming videos anywhere, anytime. voice & Body > Choose from hundreds THeatre maKers > of art documentaries, artist interviews, production recordings and puppetry > instructional films across all art subject areas. productions > www.artfilms-digital.com K -12 > asian THeatre collection > stagecraFT & BACKstage > NEW & FEATURED Costumes The Active Centre KaBooM: for Performance Stories from Distant Frontlines 27’ | ML-Circus| DVD & Streaming RL-Active| e-book + 2 DVDs DLM-Kaboom |DVD & Streaming To make good costumes for stage The exercises in The Active Centre KaBooM is a physical performance performances you need to “understand encourages the actor to explore event – its subject is War. what goes into an act and how costumes their unique response to dramatic KaBooM is based on real stories of will interact with the performer”. contradiction by demonstrating a soldiers who have fought on the A Documentary by Marianne Latham. series of Pilates-based exercises frontline. Australians who fled to with vocal integration. Lewis’ Costume Designer for world- this country to escape conflict and approach is to integrate voice renowned Circus of Oz, Laurel Frank build new lives. The tale of Fabrice - and body in diverse ways. With talks about her trade and how her a child soldier from Burundi, who hid contributions made by Joan Melton, designs take an integral role on stage. in lakes to escape machete wielding PhD, ADVS, pioneer of singing She uses traditional lycra and sequins hordes; the tale of Majid, who techniques and voice/movement with a modern and vivid twist. A deserted after fighting for 10 years training for the actor, Marie- colourful account on designing for in Saddam Hussein’s army; the tale Louise Bird, PhD, Dip Ed, MAPA, stage, working with performers and of Ivor, who, as a 16 year old escaped physiotherapist, academic and making art that must be applied with the Holocaust to fight for his family Pilates instructor, and Sara Redman, strict functionality. in the Pacific Islands along with a mentor, coach, speaker and author, guardian monkey. The Active Centre demonstrates the opposite tack to conventional voice Each of the 7 tales serves as a basis practices to strengthen and sharpen for 7 leading independent theatre the physic-vocal instrument. directors to create a theatrical response. They use the body of Disc 1: The Active Centre - e-Book one female performer and an Disc 2: Ultrasound demonstrations arsenal of contemporary theatrical using selected exercises from The weapons - projections, aerial work, Active Centre pulsing sound track from Bigtoxic - and elements – mud, water, Disc 3: Profuge - adapted from tomatoes, hay – to create a series of Christopher Marlowe’s Dr Faustus, interlocking performance vignettes. performed by Voice Theatre Lab, 2011 Read more on our website > ACTING / DIRECTING Director and Actor: Passions, How To Use The Beyond Stanislavski - Shifting and Sliding Working Forensically: Process and Intimacy Stanislavski System Oyston directs Chekhov Collaborative Directing in Contemporary Theatre 83’ | ALP-Direct |DVD & Streaming 68’ | PO-Stan | DVD & Streaming 110’ | PO-Chekhov |DVD & Streaming 54 mins | JK-Slid | DVD & Streaming 50’ | RMU-Working | DVD & Streaming An in depth exploration of the Peter Oyston reveals how he com- Using an abridged version of The works examine and challenge A discussion between Richard complex and intimate relationship bines Stanislavski’s techniques in a Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD, the social, temporal and gender Murphet (Director/Writer) and between Actor and Director when systematic approach to provide a Oyston reveals how directors and constructs within which women Leisa Shelton (Director/Performer) working on a play-text. The core of full rehearsal process or a drama actors can apply the techniques of in particular live. They offer a about their years of collaboration the process presented in the film course in microcosm. An invaluable Stanislavski and develop them to positive vision of the feminine in directing, during which they have involves working with physical and resource for anyone interested in suit contemporary theatre. psyche as creative, productive and produced 5 new theatre works. (subsequent) emotional intensity the making of authentic theatre. resourceful. in the space, and crucially not imposing any preconceived ideas onto the work. The Making of a Supporting Actors ONE: Healing with Theatre How to Audition Char∙ac∙ter Monologue 62’ | CG-Wilson2 | DVD & Streaming 34’ | CG-Sup | DVD & Streaming 90’| PAN-One | DVD & Streaming 100’ | PO-Audition | DVD & Streaming 88’ | NM-Char | DVD & Streaming This video draws on rehearsal and Supporting Actors will be an It is a large scale performance Peter Oyston addresses a number A raw and candid dialogue about performance footage, reveals how invaluable tool for aspiring actors project centred around the of questions and demonstrates the life and craft of acting between Wilson created his unique one- and a fascinating behind-the opportunity of facilitating one-to- how to shape a speech, how to longtime colleagues and friends man performance of Hamlet and -scenes view for those interested one meetings between audience learn lines, how to prepare, how Dabney Coleman, Peter Falk, Charles captures the rich texture of Wilson’s in the thinking of theatre, television and performer and designed to to place images in space how to be Grodin, Sydney Pollack, Mark Rydell multi-dimensional theatrical style. and film industry pros. Directed by create a fulfilling and lasting quality flexible, daring and confident. and Harry Dean Stanton. Suzannah Warlick. of contact ACTING / DIRECTING An Obsession with The TEAM Makes a Play The Art of Theatre, Film and Making War Horse Teachers on Acting Hamlet Television - An Introduction 55’ | AB-Obses | DVD & Streaming 92’ | RPP-Team | DVD & Streaming 45’ | OBB-Art | DVD & Streaming 48’ | SEV-Making | DVD & Streaming 21’ | AFT-Teach | DVD & Streaming John Bell has stamped the role of The inside story behind the making of The basic elements of theatre, film Making War Horse is the story of how Leading Australian teachers Hayes Hamlet as his own, having played it the TEAM’s award-winning Edinburgh and television performance - are Michael Morpurgo’s award-winning Gordon, Dean Carey and Murree numerous times over 35 years. Now and National Theatre hit, Mission explored in this educational video. and captivating children’s novel, Hutchinson discuss their approach he is handing on the baton to talented Drift. An exclusive view behind the This program visually develops and War Horse, became one of the most to the teaching of acting, with em- young actor Leon Ford (Changi) who scenes and inside the process and explains the concepts of art on stage popular and acclaimed productions phasis on specific improvisational moulds it into something fresh and the people. and on the screen, the basic concepts in the National Theatre’s history. techniques and the building of a exciting as Bell directs. Australia only. of dramatic conventions and how all character step-by-step. this impacts the audience. Actors on Acting Actors on Acting The Shakespeare (Australian) Sessions 27’ | CAT-Act | DVD & Streaming 28’ | AFT-Act | DVD & Streaming 55’ | RI-Shakesp | DVD Murray Hamilton, James Earl Jones, Jack Australia’s leading actors critically de- With founders of The Royal Klugman and Rip Torn give opinions on construct their process, with particular Shakespeare Company and Kevin the lack of good roles, the incursions emphasis on TV and film: John Bell, Kline, Dustin Hoffman, Cynthia Nixon of television, Hollywood vs. Broadway, Lorraine Bayly, Noni Hazelhurst, Angela and David Hyde Pierce, in intimate rehearsal and experimentation, Punch McGregor. With absorbing workshop settings with John Barton keeping your day job, acting as a candour they discuss their techniques and Sir Peter Hall. Focusing on the sophisticated form of showing off, for making a character come alive language as the way into Shakespeare’s and why these stars went into acting and evoking authentic and believable magical world, these workshops bring themselves. emotional responses on stage. Shakespeare’s characters to life on stage. ACTING / DEVISING Devising Performance Devising Celebration: Walyalup Dreaming 186’ | KD-Crossing | DVD & Streaming Engineers of the Imagination Devising 1 - Documentary Devising 2 - Performances 23’ | CSU-Dev |DVD & Streaming 30’ | RS-Wal | DVD & Streaming This documentary follows the Three performances from three different “CROSSING” projects one of Forced Entertainment visits This film explores how a traditional journey of a group of young people,