Activating Character: Impulse to Action with Heidi Carlsen
Tuition: $715.00 Full tuition is due at the time of registration for all classes
About Heidi Carlsen
Heidi Carlsen is an experimental theater artist, actor and director. She integrates her diverse dance and performance training into her 25 years of teaching and creating movement stories. Local artists she has trained with include Joe Goode and Ruth Zaporah. Over the years she has been invited to create performances in New York, Oregon, up and down the California coast, Scandinavia, Poland and Berlin. Highlighted performance experiences include: (in New York) The New School, Ontological-Hysteric, HERE, BAX, NYTW, Judson Church; (and in Los Angeles) Highways Performance Space, REDCAT; (in Portland) Echo Theater, the Winningstad, (and in the Bay Area) Waterfront, Cutting Ball, SAFEhouse Arts, Shawl Anderson and ODC. Her Teaching experience includes San Francisco State University, A.C.T. since 2017, and many colleges. Carlsen received a Fulbright Scholarship to Poland where she created a new dance/opera. She has an MFA in Theater Directing from CalArts and integrates this with being a Feldenkrais Practitioner. Currently, she is studying for a Masters in Performance at the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago.
Class Description
Activating Character: Impulse to Action is a class for those who have had some acting experience to those who are professional.
My intuitive body centered approach attracts students seeking to enrich their acting career and personal lives. We will look at how Inner motivations manifest in external physical expressions. Students will learn a ‘swinging’ physical warm up, will improvise, create short sketches, but primarily focus on scenework – how to analyze a script and embody a character. Skills to be learned include: listening, spontaneity, freedom, trust and discovering transformation.
10 Sessions Total: There will be a final showcase.
Cancellation Policy
If you cancel before the first session, you will be refunded any tuition amount over $50 that you have paid. Service fees are non-refundable. If you cancel after the first session, you will be refunded half the tuition. If you cancel any time after the second session, you will receive no refund. Cancellations must be made with a Marsh staff person by calling 415-282-3055