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Embody the Moment: A 5-Week Movement Journey for Actors (Magaly Colimon)

Instructor: Magaly Colimon –

Held in person: 

Step into your full presence—onstage and off. Embody the Moment is a transformative 5-week actor movement workshop designed to help you release fear, quiet inner tension, and unlock authentic expression through the body.

Combining Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement, guided visualization, breath work, energy balancing, and reflective journaling, each session invites you to slow down, tune in, and rediscover the power of embodied awareness. This process-oriented journey will support you in:

✨ Releasing fear and anxiety stored in the body
✨ Unwinding habitual patterns of tension
✨ Rebalancing your energetic and emotional state
✨ Cultivating grounded presence and emotional availability
✨ Accessing a more intuitive connection to character and impulse

Whether you’re preparing for the stage, screen, or simply seeking to move through the world with more ease and confidence, this workshop offers tools for sustainable growth, energetic alignment, and creative expansion.

No prior Feldenkrais or energy work experience required—just a willingness to explore, breathe, and be.

Wardrobe

  • Comfortable movement clothing (e.g., yoga wear, sweatpants, breathable tops – nothing restrictive)
  • Layers (sessions may include stillness or breathwork; bring a sweater or long-sleeve top to stay warm)
  • Non-slip socks or bare feet (recommended for grounding and safe movement)
  • Optional: A light scarf or eye covering (for visualization or breathwork exercises)

Materials

  • Yoga mat or padded mat (for floor-based movement and Feldenkrais work)
  • Journal or notebook (for guided reflections and insights)
  • Pen or pencil
  • Reusable water bottle
  • Small blanket or shawl (for comfort during breathwork, energy balancing, or visualization)

Optional but Recommended

  • A small pillow or bolster (to support the head or knees during lying exercises)
  • Essential oil or calming scent (to personalize your breathwork or visualization experience)

The Art of Transformation

Instructor: Janice Orlandi –

Held in-person: 

Summer 2025: Williamson Technique applied to Uta Hagen’s Character Conditions

Williamson Technique is a physical technique for actors developed by Loyd Williamson to expand your physical, emotional and expressive range by integrating the connections between your body, voice, instinct, five senses and imagination. We explore how the body processes experience through the five senses into truthful behavior while involved in the circumstances and relationships of the imaginary world of the play. Through this rigorous movement technique — applying qualities of space, weight, time, qualities, of Movement, the five senses, atmospheric shifts, and exploration of the imaginary world though sensory contact and movement — you develop a flexible, responsive, emotionally available and vocally alive instrument.The practice of a this psychophysical technique is designed to explore, develop, and expand the actor’s process oriented “Tool Kit.”

We apply Williamson Technique to Uta Hagen’s Character Conditions exercise, exploring the physical process of creating a character with “conditions” such as cold, hot or sleepy, and “Altered States” or impediments such as drunk or drugged. With applications to dramatic texts from theatre or film that require or imply a character with a physical condition, impediment or altered state, we explore archetypal essences, qualities and atmospheres for activating the body in space. Using a variety of ensemble building, and devising methods we find gesture, action and story, leading to devised, emotionally charged and atmospheric movement improvisations, incorporating altered speech and vocal shifts or qualities as well as physical shifts in space, weight, tempo and effort, to create the illusion and physical attributes of an altered state or character conditions.

Sign up for either Part A, Part B, or both for $15 off! You can enroll in Part B without taking Part A:

Acting Improvisation

For actors who want to improve their acting skills through improvisation, this class amplifies the technique work in Level 1 and supports the work with scenes in Levels 2 and 3. The first session will be dedicated to the choices you need to make to structure a viable improvisation, with emphasis placed on circumstances, relationships, tension, and subtext. In the following sessions, you will improvise scenes and explore improvisation through games and exercises. There is no work outside of class. Through this inventive process, you develop immediacy, creativity and partnering skills, and hone your instincts for making productive dramatic choices. Actors of all levels are welcome.

In Part A, participants will play graduate-level theater games and explore improvisational methods to build character, conflict, and collaboration.  The discoveries made in this class will apply to all acting endeavors and are designed to nurture creative expression, uniqueness, bravery and unselfconscious play.  Actors should dress to move.

ACTING IMPROVISATION INSTRUCTORS:
Charlotte Bydwell | Rasa Allan Kazlas | Maggie Lacey

Most classes run for 10 weeks. Some classes are offered in two 5-week parts (Part A & Part B), and you can sign up for either part independently or register for both parts for $15 off. You can register for Part B without taking Part A: