A collection of developmental acting exercises for directors of children's theater clubs and studios

You can even learn acting online; you don’t have to attend courses in studios or schools. With the help of video tutorials and classes on online platforms, you or your child can learn all the intricacies of this beautiful art.

Even if you do not plan to become a professional actor, the courses will help you become more sociable, relaxed, teach you to manage your emotions, and react correctly to various situations.

We have compiled a complete list of online acting courses for you. Most of them are suitable for both children and adults. Among them there are both paid and free classes.

Lessons from legends

Website : https://urokilegend.ru/ Cost : from 4,990 rub. per course, 15,000 rub. — all platform courses for a year. The first lesson is free. Promo code howtolearn_mono gives you a 1000 rubles discount on a single course, and promo code howtolearn_year gives you 1500 rubles for an annual subscription to all courses!
There are 3 courses available on the platform from famous actors and theater directors:

Acting skills. Konstantin Raikin

• Learn how an actor's talent is formed and how to develop it
• Learn to analyze roles and create images of heroes
• You will understand how to work on emotions and feelings
• Learn how to work on your body, breathing and speech
• You will understand how to work with the director and partner on stage and set

Course program

1. Introductory lesson
2. Stage movement: working on the body What is the importance of body language for acting • How to remove clamps and work on plasticity • Developing a sense of rhythm and coordination of movements • Managing facial expressions and gestures • How to work with space: three circles of attention
3. Acting talent How to unleash creative potential • What qualities should an actor have • How to develop memory and imagination • How to cope with failures and creative crises
4. Stage speech: working on the voice How to develop diction and articulation • How to work on intonation expressiveness • How emotions change the color and pitch of the voice • How to create speech dynamics
5. Work on the text Getting to know the text • How to place semantic stresses • Specifics of reading prose and poetry • Reading the text: stages of analysis • How to determine the main theme and subtopics of the text • How to correctly set goals and objectives before reading the text • How to read the text expressively, taking into account analysis carried out
6. What should be the psychological preparation of an actor? How to work with emotions • How to realize and find feelings in yourself and convey them correctly • What knowledge in psychology should an actor have • How to develop emotional intelligence • Empathy: how to understand the emotions of another person
7. How does cinema differ from theater? Differences in approaches in theater and cinema • Peculiarities of the work of actors and directors in theater and cinema • Differences in working on roles and creating images of characters in theater and cinema • How a director chooses actors for roles • How to determine whether to accept a role for a certain director • How to evaluate a performance and yourself in it • Which performances and films are successful with audiences • How the assessment of a performance may differ between an actor, a spectator and a director
8. How a director works with actors How a director organizes work on a work • How a director sets tasks for an actor • How to respond to the director’s comments • What is director’s theater • Tips for interaction between actor and director in conflict situations
9. How to analyze a role and create images of heroes How to determine the ultimate task of a character • How to find the grain of a role • How to get used to a role • How to understand a hero through his plasticity and appearance • How to immerse yourself in the emotional state of a hero • How to analyze the actions of a hero: events and initial events ( using the example of the role of Richard III)
10. How to work with a partner Common mistakes in working with a partner • How to resolve misunderstandings with partners • How to work with a partner from whom there is no return • How to feel a partner • What will make each scene sincere • Rules for working with a partner (and partners) on stage
11. Performing on stage How to cope with fear and anxiety • How a performance can change from show to show • How to involve the viewer in the narrative • How communication with the viewer occurs in the theater
12. The art of theater Why people come to the theater • What is the purpose of the director and actor • How the audience has changed in recent years • Russian theater today
13. Conclusion

Acting skills. Maxim Sukhanov

• You will be able to interact with different directors and successfully pass the casting
• Learn how to identify your type and choose suitable roles
• Learn to analyze and think through the character's character
• Learn how to immerse yourself in the emotional state of your character and play so that they believe you
• You will understand how to work with a partner on stage

Course program

1. Introduction
2. What is the purpose of the acting profession? The mission of an actor • Choosing a profession
3. 5 tips for an aspiring actor Why an actor needs role models • How to choose roles • How to cultivate taste • How to manage your emotional state
4. How to become a sought-after actor for a long time What to read and watch for an actor • The main quality of an actor
5. How to start working on a role How the director influences the formation of a character • How to control your body and facial expressions • How to enter into a stage character • How to develop your approach in rehearsals
6. How to immerse yourself in the emotional state of a hero Methods of immersing yourself in a hero’s state • Imitation and improvisation
7. Working with a partner: how to interact on stage 3 rules for working with a partner
8. Working with a director: how to find approaches to each other Why an actor cannot compromise • 2 types of directors • How to interact with a director
9. How to develop the characters' characters: rehearsal of a scene from E. Rostand's drama "Cyrano de Bergerac" Students act out a fragment from a classic work and receive comments from the master
10. How to speak with body language: rehearsal of a scene from J.B. Molière’s comedy “Tartuffe” Students act out a fragment from a classic work and receive comments from the master
11. How to build narrative dynamics: rehearsing a scene from W. Shakespeare’s play “The Taming of the Shrew.” Students act out a fragment from a classic work and receive comments from the master
12. How to understand your character and choose suitable roles How to determine your uniqueness • 3 tips: how to choose a role
13. How to successfully pass castings What is the difference between an actor's work in cinema • Stages of casting • How to work with a director at a casting
14. How to prepare a monologue for casting The master analyzes the monologue prepared by the student for auditions and talks about what the material for casting should be
15. Dialogue for casting: how to work in tandem Master and students read and analyze the dialogue for casting
16. The role of a historical figure: how an actor can find an approach to a character Algorithm for working on the role of a historical figure • Working on the role of Stalin
17. Conclusion

Acting skills. Chulpan Khamatova

• Learn the features and differences of an actor’s work in theater and cinema
• You will understand how to understand the role and get used to the character
• Learn how to work with space on stage
• Learn how to work with directors and partners
• You will understand how to set your voice, work on facial expressions and gestures
• Learn how to overcome anxiety before going on stage and keep the audience's attention
• Using specific examples, you will understand how to work on a role and create images

Course program

1. Introduction
2. Specifics of the acting profession How the ability to accept criticism helps to hone your skills • What is the mission of an actor and what does it consist of • What qualities do you need to have to work in the theater and film industry
3. How the theater works, and how a novice actor can get on stage How to get your first theater role • How to prepare for a casting • What theater is as an organism • How to build interaction with the director • How to avoid conflicts with the director
4. Stages of working on a role: analysis of the role Where work on the role begins • How to help yourself in memorizing the text • Internal analysis, working with references • Determining the task and super-task of the role • What the psychophysics of the hero is formed from
5. Stages of working on a role: the character’s language and voice How to stage the voice and breathing • How to find the timbre of your character’s voice • How to develop diction and articulation • How to work on intonation expressiveness • How the image of Raisa Maksimovna Gorbacheva was created
6. Stages of working on a role: working with the body, plastic drawing of the image, gestures How to remove clamps in the body and work with psychological blocks • How to see your body in the mise-en-scène • How to work on gesticulation
7. Stages of working on a role. Make-up, props, appearance of the actor Character appearance, make-up and props • How to feel the space and work with it: circles of attention • How to work with a partner
8. How the play and the role live The life cycle of a play: preparation for the premiere • How to keep the audience's attention during the performance • How to cope with anxiety and develop stress resistance • How to revive an aging performance if it is not removed from the repertoire
9. How the film production process works, and how a novice actor can get into it Why there is less freedom in cinema than in the theater • How a novice actor can get a role in a film or TV series • What are the features of film casting • How does the film and TV series production process work • How to choose roles and determine the quality of the script • Working with a filmmaker on set • How to solve interaction problems with a partner • How to work with child partners on set
10. How to work on a role in films and TV series. Part 1. Preparing for the role: language characteristics of the character Features and difficulties of working on a role in films and TV series • How to prepare for working on a role • How to find the language of your character • How the speech of Mamlakat in the film “Moon Dad” and Zuleikha in the series “Zuleikha” was created opens his eyes"
11. How to work on a role in films and TV series. Part 2. Space, facial expressions, gestures and plasticity How to work with circles of attention, facial expressions and gestures in cinema • How to prepare for a role in a historical film • How to attach a microphone to your body
12. How to work on a role in films and TV series. Part 3. Tools for interaction with the director and improvisation in cinema Improvisation in cinema: in what cases is it appropriate • How to prepare for filming in a series • How the image of Elizaveta Glinka was created in the film “Doctor Lisa”
13. Ecology of the acting profession What helps restore energy • How to learn to treat the body and voice as an instrument and take care of them • How to learn to ignore criticism and negative assessments • How to cope with emotional burnout
14. How to maintain mastery and expand your range What skills should always be improved • What is realization for an actor today
15. Conclusion

Introduction

A theatrical performance is always a process of interaction between partners. Moreover, a partner for an artist is not only another artist, but also the audience, and even inanimate objects (real or imaginary). Often the artist is a partner for himself: any monologue in which the character doubts, suffers, asks insoluble questions , turned inward.

Interaction with a partner, communication with him is the alpha and omega of stage existence. There are no moments on stage when the artist does not communicate with anyone. There are no such moments in life.

Arkady Nikolaevich came in, congratulated us on the new stage and turned to Veselovsky:

—Who or what are you communicating with now? - he asked him.

Veselovsky was busy with his own thoughts and therefore did not immediately understand what he was being asked about.

- I? With no one and nothing! - he answered almost mechanically.

- Yes, you are a “miracle of nature”! You should be sent to the Cabinet of Curiosities if you can live without communicating with anyone! - Arkady Nikolaevich joked.

Veselovsky began to apologize and assure that no one looked at him and no one addressed him. Therefore, he could not communicate with anyone.

- Is it really necessary for this to be looked at or talked to? - Arkady Nikolaevich was perplexed. - Close your eyes now, cover your ears, be silent and watch who and what you will mentally communicate with. Catch at least one moment when you are left without an object of communication!

I also did a test for myself, that is, I closed my eyes, covered my ears and began to monitor what was happening in my mind.

I imagined yesterday’s party at the theater, where the famous string quartet performed, and I began to mentally, step by step, remember everything that happened to me there. So I entered the foyer, said hello, sat down and began to look at the musicians getting ready to play.

Soon they started playing, and I listened to them. But I was unable to properly penetrate, listen, and feel their performance.

Here it is, an empty moment of non-communication! - I decided and hastened to inform Tortsov about this.

- How?! - he exclaimed in amazement. — Do you consider the perception of a work of art to be an empty moment, devoid of communication?

- Yes. Because I listened, but did not hear yet, I delved into, but did not understand yet. Therefore, I believe that communication had not yet begun, and the moment was empty, I insisted.

— Communication and perception of music did not begin, because the previous process was not yet over and distracted attention. But as soon as it stopped, they started listening to music or being interested in something else. Therefore, there was no break in communication... [1]

But if in life we ​​interact with people completely naturally, often involuntarily, then in stage conditions real, full-blooded communication with a partner is difficult to achieve. This happens not only because the actor is forced to utter someone else’s words and live someone else’s life. In order for the process of interaction with a partner on stage to begin, it is necessary to stop the internal communication that occurs continuously during a rehearsal or performance. The artist, according to Stanislavsky, “is a person who is characterized by human weaknesses. Coming to the stage, he naturally brings with him his inherent life thoughts, personal feelings, reflections born of reality. Therefore, in the theater, his everyday, philistine line does not stop, but at the first opportunity it intersperses with the experiences of the person portrayed. The artist gives himself to the role only in those moments when it captures him. Then he merges with the image and creatively transforms. But as soon as he is distracted from the role, he is again captured by his own, human line of life, which takes him either off the stage, into the auditorium, or far beyond the theater, and there he finds objects of mental communication for himself. At these moments, the role is transmitted externally, mechanically. Due to such frequent distractions, the line of life and communication is constantly interrupted, and the empty space is filled with inserts from the artist’s own life that have no relation to the person portrayed” [1].

The action on stage must be continuous, even in those moments when outwardly nothing is happening. We must understand that action is, first of all, the impact on the partner and the perception of his counteraction. What nature this interaction will have depends on the plot of the play, its intrigue and events. The main thing is that it is an interaction between people living in given scenic circumstances. Only in this case will the stage performance capture both the actors themselves and the people sitting in the auditorium. But living on stage in the proposed circumstances, unfortunately, often turns out to be an impossible task for actors. The two most common mistakes are: playing yourself (that is, bringing your personal problems, beliefs, interests, conflicts to the stage); and portray a character using acting cliches. The training exercises and studies proposed in this book teach you to avoid these dangerous mistakes.

How to “live the life of a role”? How not to lose the attention of a crowd of thousands sitting in the auditorium? How to ensure the continuity of the process of communication with partners with your feelings, thoughts, actions, similar to the feelings, thoughts, actions of the role they portray? What needs to be done in order to involve the viewer in the stage communication, to make him your partner, a participant in the action? The answer to all these questions was the Stanislavsky system, on the basis of which this training was created.

Udemy

Website: https://udemy.com Cost: from 999 rub.

ACTING LIFE HACKS Acting and public speaking skills. Working with the camera.

From the director, editor of TNT, REN TV, actor of the theaters named after. Mossovet and Sovremennik, author of the idea for the series Blindspot (Warner Bros. Television), teacher and author of a book on acting, Roman Fedosov.

The course includes a book on acting skills, as well as at least one free, individual online lesson after completing the course.

The course will introduce you to artistic techniques and ways of communicating with the audience: How to cope with anxiety? How do you prepare for shooting? How to attract the viewer's attention and how to control it? Let's talk about the laws of spectator perception. And also - how to find your stage personality and awaken your energy. What is the role of atmosphere in the creative process and how to create it. What is “stage space”, how to fill it and “inhabit it”? How to learn to listen, hear and feel the audience?

What will you learn

• Basics of acting.
• Working on camera.
• Be free and “infectious” on camera.
• Training professional acting attention.
• Create a creative atmosphere.
• Feel, listen and hear the audience.
• Fill and inhabit the stage space.
• Attract and hold the viewer's attention.
• Charismatic and infectious.
• Overcome and manage anxiety.
• Manage your emotions.
• Learn how to find your stage personality.
• Find out what an actor’s “message” is.
• Manage the acting energy.

Acting workshop of Oleg Zhiritsky

Website: https://actbox.ru/ Duration: 3 weeks Cost: from 1900 rub.

Online acting course: a basic practical crash course in acting, creativity and speech technique.

You receive theoretical materials and practical assignments on the popular GetCourse platform. Each theoretical lesson has practical tasks. You send completed tasks to a special chat with the course curator.

Course content:

• Acting: Instrument

The instrument in the acting profession is the performer himself. Learn to work on yourself, explore your capabilities and train your body, brain, thinking - in order to achieve better results.

• Acting: Material. Action and attention

Learn to see the material of acting in life and on stage. Working on the role.

• Speech technique

Learn to breathe correctly and control your natural resonators. Learn articulatory warm-ups and improve your diction.

• Directing. Stage task and super task. Practical psychology

Learn to build your behavior on stage and in life. Learn to achieve stage goals.

• Creativity

You will pump up your imagination, fantasy and learn to enter the creative flow. Learn to see the unusual in familiar things and phenomena. Learn to take a non-standard approach to tasks.

• Soft skills

Soon it will be impossible to get any job without understanding this term. Learn to see soft skills and use them.

You will learn:

• Perform in public and on camera. Build your behavior in monologue and dialogue.
• See other people's behavior and build your own behavior. Improve your negotiation skills.
• Use your body and psyche. Coordinate the work of different parts of the body and mind.
• Achieve goals and stage objectives. You will learn what a super task and action are in the art of acting.
• Use your voice for public speaking. Use aperture. Use articulatory gymnastics and diction exercises.
• Manage your psychophysics. Memorize the texts of monologues. Get into a creative state.

How to take classes

Naturally, it is impossible to fully master the art of acting on your own at home, taking only online classes. The selection of lessons on our website has been prepared, firstly, for a general introduction to the basics of the art of impersonation, and secondly, so that you can try some acting exercises and techniques.

Such testing will allow you to understand how easy stage skills are for you, whether the acting profession is interesting for you, and even how well you know your inner world. The lessons posted on our website are intended for children, teenagers and adults and, in fact, are free acting courses that can be taken online.

You can choose the time and mode of classes yourself. Of course, it is important to understand that the more and more often you work on yourself and on your roles, the more you will learn, the more and better your transformation will be.

It is also important that you find someone who will help you and evaluate you from the outside. This could be either a professional teacher or just a like-minded friend of yours. As a last resort, you can use a mirror or video camera to see yourself from the outside and make adjustments on your own.

4brain

Website: https://4brain.ru Duration: individual Cost: free

The course is designed for aspiring actors and anyone who wants to take online acting classes. In the lessons you will briefly get acquainted with the systems of Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Chekhov, Nemirovich-Danchenko.

You will learn what qualities an actor should have and how to acquire them. You will learn the art of stage speech, understanding and reproducing emotions. You will also learn from leading acting schools and clubs.

In this section you will find textbooks, video lessons and fragments from real acting courses.

The course will help you manage emotions, behave correctly in public, speak in public, be sociable and charismatic.

Shadow

In the “Acting” discipline, training is always comprehensive; the basic concepts are intertwined in one exercise and require constant concentration of strength from the actor.

An interesting exercise with shadows. The first person makes some movements, justifying them with a goal (this can be some pointless action), and the second person is his “shadow” - he completely repeats every action. Of course, the first one must work slowly so that the second one has time to repeat. But the task of the second participant is to very carefully monitor the leader and try to predict his actions. In addition, he also needs to understand what kind of action is being performed and justify it, because the goal of a person and a shadow always coincides.

Such exercises, which help to hone acting skills for beginners, develop a sense of leverage - it always reminds the actor that he does not work alone, but depends on everyone, and everyone depends on him in the same way.

School "Easy People"

Website: https://www.leludi.ru Duration: 30 days Cost: 990-4900 rub.

The 30-day acting marathon works in the Telegram or VK application, you can download it to your phone or install it on any computer. Every day at 9:00 am you will receive a task. The task will only arrive if you responded to the previous message.

If you choose the plan with a mentor, one of the teachers will be assigned to you, who will provide comments on your work. There are also auto-responses from which you will learn a lot of useful information about the theater business and the industry as a whole.

The course is a great opportunity to start getting acquainted with the theater. In 30 days you will receive a huge number of useful links, stories, key names. Everything so that you can better navigate the acting profession.

All parts are based on the research of the classics of theatrical science - Stanislavsky, Chekhov, Grotovsky, LeCoq, Brecht and Demidov.

Moscow Film School

Website: https://moscowfilmschool.ru/ Address: Moscow, Nizhnyaya Syromyatnicheskaya 10, building 2 Phone: +7-495-640-80-14 E-mail: Duration: 2 years Cost: 355,000 rub. per year, payment in installments is possible

In the acting course, you will learn how to work on camera, interact with the film crew, and find a common language with partners and the director. You will be taught to work on the role and script, and feel confident in front of the camera. You will perfectly master the secrets of facial and bodily expressiveness, learn to move correctly and beautifully. Training is conducted in a convenient blended format, allowing you to combine face-to-face and distance learning.

Training program:

Act Place (for children)

Website: https://www.act-place.com Duration: individual Cost: 600-1000 rub.

All classes are held in a playful way, with maximum attraction of the child’s attention. Thanks to the alternation of active and passive exercises, children do not get tired.

The child acquires new knowledge and skills thanks to special theatrical games for the development of attention, imagination and various types of memory, thanks to which he remembers better and concentrates faster.

Speech exercises and games, with elements of speech therapy gymnastics, will improve articulation and diction. The child will learn many tongue twisters and will be able to pronounce them without difficulty.

If you have a modest and shy child, online classes will increase his self-esteem, develop a sense of confidence and the ability to express emotions.

Thanks to video lessons, the child will learn what kind of warm-up will help him get ready for any situation. The basics of stage movement will help you get rid of physical constraints and form correct posture.

Acquaintance with different types of theatrical art and literary trends will form a truly creative and interesting personality.

For classes there is a format of video programs, individual lessons and in mini-groups.

How to tell if you have acting ability

It’s quite easy to discover your artistic abilities. It is enough to observe the reactions of others. There are several signs by which you can easily determine whether you really want to become an actor:

1. Friends love your stories. Even if what you say is extremely banal, they always listen to you carefully. Some people take years to learn how to hold the public's attention.
2. It is not difficult for you to gain a person's trust. It's all about developed charm and charisma - you win people over from the first words, so you are often considered a “favorite” among teachers in educational institutions and among superiors at work.
3. You know how to accurately portray another person. Noticing all the subtleties of people's behavior and being able to reproduce them is an ability that only a real actor can master.
4. You are great at reading monologues. If the reproduction of an excerpt from any work causes delight among listeners, then you are not lacking in artistry.
5. If you can lie beautifully, you have great creative potential. Sometimes this indicates excessive trust of the other person, but more often the reason lies in well-coordinated facial expressions and confident intonation.
6. You have no problem hiding your emotions: you laugh when you’re sad or in a good mood, you get upset when someone feels bad.
7. You have good control of your body. Moving to the beat, being able to convey various images with body movements is an actor’s calling. You can try yourself in pantomime to evaluate your own potential.

HEDU

Website: https://irs.academy Duration: 3 months. Cost: from 2,700 rub.

Master acting, feel more confident and influence people with this online course. Release muscle tension and learn to express emotions by learning about acting.

Get a deeper understanding of theater and the work of actors by mastering the art of acting. Learn to work with stage space and the audience by taking an online acting course.

Learn to work with your body and emotions using acting techniques and establish contact with yourself.

Classes are held in webinar format. Viewing video recordings of lectures is available in your personal account. Each lesson is available once a week, taking into account that the homework for the previous lesson is completed.

Program:

• voice technique,
• artistry,
• relaxation,
• working with emotions
• face and facial expressions,
• the art of transformation,
• attention management.

Attention

In any field of activity, a person with absent-minded attention is unlikely to achieve success. Acting for beginners includes many exercises aimed specifically at developing voluntary attention. A lot of things in acting depend on this, starting with the fact that in class the first thing you pay attention to is so that not a single word of the teacher is missed, and ending with the fact that on stage the actor must act exactly along the line of the role, without being distracted by outsiders noises, but at the same time keep your partner and his actions under control, so as not to turn into a mechanical performer.

To improve attention, acting for beginners offers fairly simple exercises.

Insula Theater

Website: https://insulatheater.ru Duration: 1.5 months. Cost: 0-40000 rub.

Twice a week for two hours you will practice acting with professional actors and teachers. At the end of the training, some students will be able to take part in a community performance about life in isolation.

First block - Word as art:

• What makes a word powerful?
• The science of speech.
• Expressiveness and speech techniques.
• Managing emotions in a performance.
• The art of being yourself.

Second block - Writing our story:

• Principles of storytelling (according to Erik Truls).
• Exposure levels.
• Literary text as the basis of history.
• Signs of a good text.
• We tell the concept of the graduation story, analyze the plot, and formulate strong questions.

Third block - Acting techniques:

• Relaxation as the launch of the creative process. Learning to breathe. Let's listen to ourselves. Let's soak up the atmosphere. Learning to use sensory skills for public speaking.
• We teach the body to speak. Relieving stress before a performance. Learning to feel confident. Public communication skills.
• Emotional trainer. Characterization of other characters through articulatory and behavioral features.

Fourth block - Lee Strasberg Method:

• What is the Lee Strasberg Method and how can it be applied on stage and in life.
• The basics of relaxation. “Hollywood” set of exercises for finding the truth within yourself. Relaxation exercise.
• Sensory exercises: a cup, a person, a children's room, music in the head, a character alone with himself.
• Relaxation plus exercises: Sunlight, substitution for person, need, substitution for event, picture.

A.Bender

Website: https://a-bender.ru Duration: on request Cost: on request

Acting courses by Anastasia Bender online for those who want to get acquainted with acting or enroll in a theater university.

During the course you will learn how to become an actor, the nuances of the profession, and which university is best to enroll in. You will become familiar with the basics of acting schools and basic techniques.

Acting will help you feel more confident in society and in everyday life. And for children, acting helps develop intelligence, imagination, emotionality, and the ability to use and manage feelings.

Exercise “Like Julius Caesar”

Being able to concentrate on what you are doing is very important for every person, but for an actor it plays a special role. If your child attends drama classes, he or she has probably been given several exercises to improve concentration and attention. Here's another one. Its essence is to do two things at the same time: for example, read to music. If this is too easy, ask your child to recite a poem to music. The task is not to get lost. Remember, there will always be extraneous noise in a theater or concert hall. It should not distract the actor. The quality of his performance and career depend on the speed of his thinking, attention, and ability to concentrate.

School Inter (for children)

Website: https://school-inter.net Duration: on request Cost: 400 rub./lesson

During the classes, children will “educate” their speech apparatus and make their speech not only literate, but also beautiful. For this, training in stage speech will be useful. Children will also engage in acting training to ensure that their reading and everyday speech become accurate and expressive.

Creative courage, developed imagination, rich imagination and the ability to make non-standard decisions will, I hope, be a good addition to creative results. And as part of their theatrical work, the guys will try their hand at a variety of radio shows!

As homework for classes, children will learn poems and short texts - to train their memory and learn to “experience” various emotions.

Classes are held in groups of 3-5 people once a week via Skype.

Keeping a creative diary

The development of attention begins not even in the classes themselves, but in everyday life. The beginner is encouraged to observe people and situations wherever he is, paying special attention to interesting personalities and their behavior, because in the future they can be used as prototypes for roles.

This exercise also includes an attentive attitude to surrounding objects. Every day you need to write down what changes have occurred, what was not noticed before, what specifically has changed.

Sol-x

Website: https://sol-x.ru Duration: individual Cost: free

The platform contains video lessons on acting: exercises on facial expressions, voice, gestures, emotions.

Acting Exercises is a great video lesson that will teach you how to act naturally and truthfully on stage. Agree that when an actor plays poorly, it immediately catches your eye, and the camera catches even the most insignificant errors. The presented exercises will help beginners to be restrained, get into the role and not allow themselves to be doubted.

Online training “Acting for the Stage - Stage Combat”, which will help you develop a “special state” that will allow you to feel more comfortable on stage if you need to perform a fight scene. You will be able to set goals and achieve them faster, thanks to the development of a state of lightness and confidence, you will learn to control your condition.

Video “Acting Training”, in which the teacher of the Shchukin Theater School, Rodion Vyushkin, will be happy to share his experience with you. Every day, each of us plays many roles, while striving to fit into social society as harmoniously as possible.

Acting training according to the Stanislavsky system. Exercises and studies

...darkness fell, and a second later the large lamp that stood on the table near which I was sitting came on. The lampshade cast a round glare of light down onto my head and hands. It cheerfully illuminated the middle of the table, covered with trinkets. The rest of the stage and auditorium were drowning in eerie darkness. I felt all the more comfortable in the glare of the lamp, which seemed to suck all my attention into its bright circle, limited by darkness.

“This highlight on the table,” Tortsov told us, “illustrates a small circle of attention.”

You yourself, or rather, your heads and hands, caught in the strip of light, are in its center. Such a circle is similar to the small aperture of a photographic camera, detailing the smallest parts of the object.

Tortsov was right; indeed, all the trinkets standing on the table in the narrow circle of the singer naturally attracted attention.

Once you find yourself in a circle of light in complete darkness, you will immediately feel isolated from everyone. There, in the circle of light, just like at home, you are not afraid of anyone and are not ashamed of anything. There you forget that from the darkness from all sides there are many prying eyes watching your life. In a small circle of light I feel more at home than even in my own apartment. There, a curious housewife peers through the keyhole, while in a small circle the black walls of darkness bordering it seem impenetrable. In such a narrow circle of light, as with concentrated attention, it is easy not only to examine objects in all their finest details, but also to live with the most intimate feelings, thoughts and perform complex actions; you can solve difficult problems, understand the intricacies of your own feelings and thoughts; You can communicate with another person, feel him, share your most intimate thoughts, recall the past, dream about the future.

Tortsov understood my condition. He walked up to the ramp and said to me with animation:

- Notice quickly: the state that you are experiencing now is called in our language public loneliness.

It is public because we are all with you. It is loneliness, since you are separated from us by a small circle of attention. At a performance, in front of a crowd of thousands, you can always withdraw into loneliness, like a snail into a shell.

Now I will show you the average circle of attention.

Darkness fell.

Then a rather large space with a group of furniture was illuminated: with a table, chairs and a corner of the piano, with a fireplace, with a large armchair in front of it. I found myself in the center of this circle.

It was impossible to take in the entire space at once. I had to look at it piece by piece. Each thing inside the circle was a separate, independent point object. The only trouble is that with the increased light area, halftones were formed. These halftones fell outside the circle, making its walls less dense. Moreover, my solitude became too spacious. If the small circle can be compared to a single apartment, then the middle one would be like a family apartment. Just as it’s uncomfortable to live alone in an empty, cold mansion of ten rooms, a little guy, I wanted to get my sweet little circle of attention back.

But I felt and reasoned this way only as long as I was alone. When Shustov, Pushchin, Maloletkova, Vyuntsov and others entered my illuminated circle, we barely fit in it. A group formed, sitting on armchairs, chairs and a sofa.

The large area gives scope for wide action. In a large space, it is more convenient to talk about general rather than personal, intimate issues. Thanks to this, a lively, young and passionate folk scene was easily created in the middle circle. You can't repeat it to order. Like the small and medium circle of light shown today by Tortsov, I felt the artist’s well-being at the moment of expanding the area of ​​attention.

Institute of Modern Technologies, Management and Business

Website: https://istuib.ru Duration: 1-3 months. Cost: 18,000 rub.

People who work as actors in theater or cinema most often have a diploma from a higher educational institution. But you can master this specialty by receiving additional education at the Institute of Modern Technologies, Management and Business. Training in the specialty “Theater and Film Actor” is carried out remotely. You will be able not to attend classes and get all the necessary information from textbooks in the Institute’s large electronic library.

You will determine the terms of study for yourself; when you enter into an agreement, you will be able to spend 1 to 3 months on receiving your education. During this time, you will absorb the necessary information and write a thesis, the size of which is 20-30 pages. Successful completion of this work will be considered passing the final certification, after which you will be issued a state diploma.

The course in the specialty “Theater and Film Actor” includes the history of theater and cinema, the basics of directing, choreography, cultural studies, and of course, acting and public speaking skills, speech culture, musical and plastic education, the study of stage speech, movement, as well as the basics of vocals and rules for applying makeup in theater and cinema.

What is acting?

Acting art

is a professional creative activity in the field of performing arts, consisting in the creation of stage images (roles), a type of performing arts. When performing a certain role in a theatrical performance, the actor, as it were, likens himself to the person on whose behalf he is acting in the play. By influencing the viewer during the performance, a special playing space and community of actors and spectators are created.

In modern society, when people spend a lot of time on computers and various mobile gadgets, many find it difficult to feel liberated, manage their emotions, communicate freely, and be confident. Because of this, people experience apathy or fear, as well as difficulty expressing their own thoughts and moods.

Emotional depression leads to internal pressures, which manifest themselves not only in facial expressions, speech, movements, but also in the inner world. Therefore, acting is useful not only for those who want to become a professional actor in the future, but also for people who want to learn how to manage emotions, be sociable, charismatic and successful in life.

"My dream"

Website: https://music-mydream.com Duration: 12-24 lessons Cost: on request

Online acting lessons will be useful for vocalists, as well as all adults and children who want to freely perform on stage or in front of an audience.

The course will be useful in any profession that requires contact with clients, and for those who want to communicate openly and boldly, present their speech expressively and figuratively. Modest and shy children will also benefit from acting lessons in order to be able to express themselves in communication, become more self-confident without being shy, transform themselves and express themselves freely.

Online stage training is conducted via Skype, you can study regularly according to a schedule, or on a free schedule, having received any number of consultations on the subject. Payment is accordingly made monthly or by installments. Training programs can be tailored to suit your wishes, goals and skill level.

The basic course includes the following areas of work:

• Pronunciation and structural side of speech and singing with text (vowels and consonants of speech, semantic stresses and stressed syllables, types of sentences, etc.). Work on diction and articulation.
• Breathing as the basis of speech and singing. Types of breathing. Performing breathing exercises to develop the skill of lower costal breathing.
• Acquaintance with the means of speech expression (for vocalists also with the means of musical expression).
• Initial practical exercises for the development of emotionally charged and expressive speech using means for the development of speech expressiveness (reading poetry, prose, learning dialogues). Developing the skill of active, natural and directed speech.

The in-depth course is recommended for adults and children over 14 years old.

• Basic acting course
• Practical exercises for the development of emotionally charged and expressive speech using means of verbal expressiveness (reading poems, prose, voicing dialogues).
• For vocalists – work on their own and proposed repertoire (analysis of texts and performed works)
• Training in the skills of executive planning and interpretation in creating an artistic image.

Voice-speech training

1. Warm-up: massage, breathing.
2. Pronunciation of consonants

L, L'

Front-lingual sonorant fricative sounds

• The sound L in combination with vowels and in words

YL YLY LY LYLYLY WAS DYL REAR DEPARTMENT

EL EL LE LELELE HOWL SOAP DRINK WIL

AL ALA LA LALALA DAY OFF CHAIR DUL GUL

OL OLO LO LOLOLO TRUNK AMBASSADOR BASEMENT OPAL

STREET ULU LU LULULU FALLED TOL FOOTBALL VOLLEYBALL

IL OR LI LILILI BAL VAL DAL KOL LYKO

Skis, floors, pitchforks, oxen, shafts, forces, lava, bark, bench, varnish, paw, palm, magnifying glass, forehead, boat, elbow, bow, saws, hollow, thawed, shelf, stick, jackdaw, cap, treasure, tuft, fang, heat, head, smooth, deafness, troubles, swim, raft, corners, knots, jam, white, prickly, woodpeckers, bashlyk.

• Sound L in phrases: Lola washed the floor and shelves. Klava deftly chopped the onion. They pampered us with the balalaika. Pavel played football. Paul swept the floor. The wolf howled. Alla has a like. The shelf fell. Everything was white and white. The ambassador played football skillfully. The crowd backed away. A warm blanket covered Alla. A white cloud was floating. Christmas tree, Christmas tree, Christmas tree, prickly needle. A woodpecker was sitting on a tree and pecking holes. Near the bell stake. A cap on a cap, a cap under a cap. Vakula put Baba's shoes on, and Baba put on Vakula's shoes too. What is false is rotten. The wolf catches, and the wolf is killed. In words - like a gusli, But in reality - like a balalaika. Malanya the chatterbox was chattering milk - blurting it out, but not blurting it out. The pig was blunt-nosed, white-nosed, and dug up half the yard with its snout. The liar put it in the chest, and the liar took it from the chest. Bast shoes. She sewed, washed, ironed, rolled, spun and polished - all with her tongue. Gold is not gold without being under the hammer. Balalaisk is full of scrap metal. The village is weeding. It happened near Poltava. Volodin's fleet is sailing.

M, M', N, N'

"Benefit"

Website: https://www.teatr-benefis.ru Duration: 5 weeks. Cost: 7500-15000 rub.

Live broadcasts 2 times a week

with the school’s strongest teachers in acting and stage speech. Together with them you will perform the most effective exercises.

The teacher will tell you about the correct structure of a speech, storytelling, improvisation, spontaneity, and beautiful speech. And he will answer all your questions.

Homework that will need to be filmed. All assignments will be checked by teachers. You will receive complete feedback.

The training is structured in the format of an interesting game.

With their teams, captains and winners who will receive valuable prizes. Even if you were not able to attend in person, you will always have the opportunity to review the material.

Developing artistic abilities

To develop artistic skills, you need to simultaneously work on several qualities: memory, attention, improvisation, control over emotions, speech, plasticity. You need to get rid of fears and complexes - not be afraid of the camera, public speaking, communicating with new people. The mobilization of the entire psychophysical apparatus is very important - you must be ready for any type of activity literally at every moment. No matter what you are worried about or what puzzles you, if you need to make a drastic emotional change, you need to be able to do it in no time.

You should not ignore the biographies of famous personalities, especially those who motivate and delight. Analyze their behavior, notice what you can adopt and use in your teaching. Fantasize even more and use your imagination more often. Viewers always recognize those who know how to give a sparkling answer to an unexpected question.

Action

Website: https://actionshkola.timepad.ru Duration: 3 months. Cost: 41500-44500 rub.

The course aims to immerse you in a three-month creative process. In addition to practical acting and public speaking skills, you will gain valuable experience working in a team and meet new friends.

Course objectives:

• relax and find inner freedom
• learn to communicate with new strangers
• develop imagination
• awaken strong-willed qualities
• increase your level of self-awareness
• awaken vital energy
• learn to speak in public
• hear your free voice
• improve body coordination
• change the quality of perception
• improve communication skills
• increase concentration
• gain self-confidence.

"Shaman"

Website: https://www.slav-nayka.ru Duration: 28 lessons Cost: $700

The distance learning course on acting was created not by an actor, but by a scientist. Having studied the science of role modeling, you will easily learn how to improvise, create and play any role on stage and in life.

The course program consists of four blocks. You will get acquainted with a detailed classification of the acting profession. The blocks include an introduction to acting, status, audience and actor perception.

You will learn a lot about the human psyche and how it can relate to acting. And also how to behave in any life situations.

Film school RemarkaFilm

The content of this channel covers the activities of the Odessa film school of the same name. It will be very educational and interesting for those who are thinking about enrolling in the course. He introduces teaching methods, teaching staff, which includes famous Ukrainian actors Sergei Denga, Alexey Agopyan and Honored Artist of Ukraine Natalya Buzko. It also offers an online course on public speaking training. The latter is one of the main disciplines in teaching stage speech.

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