Williamson Physical Technique for the
Actor & Performer
Period Style & Character
WILLIAMSON TEACHER TRAINING & CERTIFCATION PROGRAM
Announcing Summer 2018
Rose Bruford College UK
WTTC Teacher Certifcation Level 1
Williamson Technique
Teacher Training and Certification Institute
July 16 to July 21
With Creator and Founder Loyd Williamson
July 16 July 21 With Loyd Williamson at Rose Bruford College UK
- Dorm Housing Christopher Court
- Held at Rose Bruford College Campus UK
- Study with Master Teacher Loyd Williamson
- Visit Historic Sights Museums & Theater in London
To apply: Early Applications Being
accepted through March 28th 2018
Call 917-601-2783
Email us at movementforactorsnyc@gmail.com
THE PHYSICAL PROCESS OF ACTING
WILLIMASON TECHNIQUE
The physical life of an actor begins with CONTACT
Through the body’s five senses, actors make contact with their surrounding world. Actors hear,touch,smell,taste or see another person, place or thing. Awareness comes from this contact.
Contact coming alive in the actors body is EXPERIENCE
The primary instrument for experience is the actor’s torso. It interacts with people, places and things through its spontaneous expansion and release. As the interaction occurs it extends to include the vital systems such as the respirator, circulatory, muscular, nervous and even the skeletal systems.
Experiential life flowing out of the body is BEHAVIOR
Behavior takes the form of motion, such as gestures or, more simply, the movement of the torso when breathing or the rush of blood to the face as in a blush. And it takes the form of sound such as speech laughter, screams, songs, or a simple sigh.
Loyd Williamson
Founder of Williamson Tecnique Physical Process of Acting
and Founder of Actors Movement Studio NYC
- Teacher Training Moduel I level I
- Study and Train with founder Loyd Williamsom
- Housing and beautiful Green Campus
- State of the Art Practice Rooms
- Sightseeing London 20 minutes from Campus
- Certicate 30 Hours Twoard CW1 Level I
Program Fees:
- Tuition 850.00 USD
- Early Bird Register by February 15th 750.00 USD
- Housing 450.00 Pounds ( 7 nights )
- Arrive Sunday July 15
- Course 6 days Monday through Saturday
- Sunday Sightsee
- Depart Monday
THE PHYSICAL PROCESS OF ACTING
WILLIMASON TECHNIQUE
The physical life of an actor begins with CONTACT
Through the body’s five senses, actors make contact with their surrounding world. Actors hear,touch,smell,taste or see another person, place or thing. Awareness comes from this contact.
Contact coming alive in the actors body is EXPERIENCE
The primary instrument for experience is the actor’s torso. It interacts with people, places and things through its spontaneous expansion and release. As the interaction occurs it extends to include the vital systems such as the respirator, circulatory, muscular, nervous and even the skeletal systems.
Experiential life flowing out of the body is BEHAVIOR
Behavior takes the form of motion, such as gestures or, more simply, the movement of the torso when breathing or the rush of blood to the face as in a blush. And it takes the form of sound such as speech laughter, screams, songs, or a simple sigh.
Loyd Williamson is the creator and author of The Williamson Technique, a two-year system of training for the body, and its role in the communication process. In 1975 he founded, The Actors Movement Studio, in partnership with Philip Burton, the purpose of which was to train actors in The Williamson work and in Burton's mime technique. Williamson served as artistic director until his retirement in 2002.
In 1979, at the invitation of William Esper and Dean Jack Bettenbender, he joined the faculty of the newly formed Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University , remaining its principal professor of the actors physical training for 22 years.
In 1995, he created the Tamarack Lodge Retreat Center, an environment in which Williamson teaches the fundamentals of his technique as well as conduct teacher certification courses. The Lodge has hosted some 50 retreats in its first ten years. It has also been host to other training: Kristen Linklater's Teacher Certification Program; Lenard Petit's Michael Checkov Workshop; Michell Karp's retreats for Corporate Trainers.
He spent eleven years on the faculty of the HB Studio (Herbert Bergoff) in New York, beginning his work there as an assistant to Anna Sokolow*, his mentor. For three years, he was the guest teacher at the graduate school of the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University. He also has taught at The Juilliard School of Drama, Northern Illinois University, Ensemble Studio Theater, and Pearl Theater Company, Princeton Shakespeare, and others.
