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For scheduled workshops, see the Calendar.
In addition to workshops listed below, I can also
customize my work to your organization’s needs.
Presentation & Promotion Skills for Creative Artist
How To Manage Discomfort & Anxiety In Professional Settings
Whether you are talking to gallery owners, collectors, or schmoozing at an opening, it is natural to be nervous. For most creative artists, you are out of your element.
Fear and a strong sense of vulnerability is a natural response to self-promotion, particularly when what you are promoting is something you are so personally connected to.
But when your nerves keep you from the very thing you want, to show and sell your work, it’s time to learn some skills that help you . . .
- Be more at ease when talking about your work or yourself
- Minimize anxiety and increase social confidence
- Turn fear into excitement and enthusiasm
- Tap into your innate creativity and love of what you do
It takes courage to create art. You can use that same courage to overcome the obstacles to promoting your work and yourself. Join instructor Joie Seldon in a safe environment, where you can learn essential skills to becoming a successful artist.
Taught at the Frank Bette Center for the Arts. See calendar for details.
Accessing Emotional Truth
Would you like to be the kind of actor the audience can’t take their eyes off of?
When, having done your homework, you are fully present, able to play spontaneously off the other actors, and open to whatever impulses come up – allowing the full range of your emotions to be available to you at any given moment, without censorship or judgment – riding the wave of unpredictability.
Imagine walking into an audition, or onto a set or stage knowing that you can connect authentically with whatever emotions are called for in the scene, and deliver a nuanced and unpredictable performance. Authenticity in acting requires an acceptance of your deepest emotional experience, something that is particularly challenging in front of a camera.
Through exercises, improvisation, and time in front of the camera you will learn:
- A foundation in emotion education that broadens the scope of what is possible in your work.
- Practical techniques for connecting to authentic emotions “on demand.”
- Exercises that warm up, tone, and develop the emotional body.
- Ways to release inhibitions around expressing specific emotions.
Having Fun with Fear in Auditions
Fear and excitement are on the same energetic continuum. What we call "being
nervous"
in an audition is most often an emotional experience which is at
the point where fear
and excitement meet. If we moved towards the fear side, the most
common results is
a freezing up in one form or another. If we move towards excitement,
we still have
to deal with the charge of energy moving through our body, and may
tend to rush or push.
It is possible to not only diminish fear, but to harness excitement
in a way that keeps
you grounded while making your audition more powerful.
This class addresses the age old issue for actors – how to keep
your nerves from getting
in your way in an audition. Most everyone gets nervous at auditions.
This is natural.
However, when your fear keeps you from being fully present and doing
your best work,
it is a problem that needs to be addressed directly. This class
will cover:
- Exercises that help to view and use fear as a resource, rather
than a liability.
- Specific techniques to release nervousness.
- Learning how to be fully
present in spite of feeling fear.
- Using your body as a source for
grounding.
- Turning fear into excitement.
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Your class was very helpful and productive, and I really enjoyed it. This class has opened my mind, body and soul to enjoy, relax and conquer my fear. Thank you so much for your energy and professionalism.
-Myles K.
Joie
heads right for the issues that were holding me back in audition.
Through class discussion, identifying blocks, and “block-breaking” techniques,
I’ve had breakthroughs that are immediately useful. I can’t
wait to fully embrace my next audition experience and put my new
found awareness to use.
- Mark. A.
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