FROM NEW YORK CITY - VTi

FROM NEW YORK CITY
Award Wining Director Robert Castle
June 11 – 22, 2012, in Brussels
Sense memory exercises are the pillars of Lee Strasberg's Method. Robert Castle has continued in the
tradition of Strasberg and Peggy Feury in developing the actor’s effectiveness with his imagined experience
exercises and his unique relaxation technique. Along with movement exercises and a new form of Affective
Memory, these exercises form a regular training for the actor and are precious tools in acting truthfully on
stage and in front of the camera.
During the workshop, Robert Castle addresses various myths about the Method and helps you to layer
your prior training onto it and his personally crafted techniques. His version of the Method is a very
effective way to help you deepen your realistic acting, put away your inner judge and free your imagination.
The goal will be to reach that zone where the actor is deeply connected and interacts effectively with the
place, the circumstances of the play and the other characters, to the point where the acting becomes
spontaneous and unconscious, and the character work daring and unique.
Program
10am-1pm
The morning starts with a full body relaxation relying on deep work in breathing. It continues with exercises
of growing complexity, including sense memory and imagined experience. Every participant goes through
the exercises at the same time, at their own level. There is no audience.
2pm-5pm
The afternoon is dedicated to monologue and scene work. You will work on one monologue and one scene
with a partner. The texts are chosen by Robert Castle according to the needs and desires you have
expressed before the workshop and sent about one week prior. Though you will find Mr.Castle to be a very
demanding director, the scenes are a ground of experimentation, free from result expectations.

Robert Castle
Robert Castle began his career as an actor, studying with Lee
Strasberg and Peggy Feury and working with well-known artists
such as Sean Penn, Jeff Goldblum and Jane Fonda. He taught at
the State University of New York, UCLA and the Lee Strasberg
Theatre and Film Institute before co-founding with Alejandra
Orozco International Theatre New York.
His technique, which integrates Stanislavski and Strasberg's
practices as well as personally developed exercises, has made him
the most sought-after instructor at the Lee Strasberg Institute. He
now travels and leads acting workshops and master classes all
around the world, which have become very popular among the
professional acting community.
He is also a director and has won many awards including the Best
Director and Best Play of the Year Awards in Brazil for his
production The Diary of Anne Frank in 2010. The leading actor and
actress were also nominated.
Practical information
Who: The workshop is open to actors and performers from other
disciplines. Places are limited to 16.
When: 10 days from June 11th to 22nd, Monday to Friday, 10am -
5pm
Where: Carthago Delenda Est, rue Sylvain Denayer, 51 - 1070
Bruxelles
Price : 870 €
You will need to rehearse with your partner after the workshop
hours and during the weekend. Please consider whether you have
enough free time.
Questions and registration: b.bregeault@yahoo.fr
If you want to know more about the workshop visit our website:
www.itnewyork.org
“Amazing! The best tool
in my toolbox!” Janina
Elkin, Star of the musical
Dirty Dancing (Berlin)