Teaching: Movement Classes
I teach movement to performers and non-performers, for stage, screen, and life. We study the relationship between the body, space, character, and narrative. Through movement analysis of both the external and internal worlds, we learn to create fully realized characters; how to transpose physical dynamics into metaphor and imagery; and how to write/devise from the body.
Performers learn to get out of the head and become more alive in the moment. We integrate characters' circumstances, needs, obstacles, and desires into the body. This allows for truthful spontaneity. Writers learn how to "move the story" for maximum potency and dynamism. We develop freedom, openness, playfulness, discipline, and mastery.
Aquila Morong Studio Pre-College Conservatory
Students learn to go off-balance, in service of mastery over their bodies and the bodies of their characters.
CalArts MFA Experimental Animation Class
Workshop for MFA Thesis students. We learned how to devise new pieces from a kernel of a physical idea, build tableaus, and translate 3D framed spaces into animations through rotoscope.
CalArts Experimental MFA Animation Class
Stop-motion animators play with their physical bodies to break down movement sequences and build non-verbal relationships.
CalArts MFA Experimental Animation Class
Workshop for MFA Thesis students. We learned how to devise new pieces from a kernel of a physical idea, build tableaus, and translate 3D framed spaces into animations through rotoscope.
The Moving Body in Space: Mask
Studying mask structure with MFA students in CalArts Experimental Animation Department.
The Moving Body in Space - CalArts
Using character masks to study how character is expressed in the body.
The Moving Body in Space - CalArts
Half mask Commedia Del Arte. Archetypes.
Attitude!
CalArts Experimental Animation MFAs find attitudes in the physical body. We learn to identify and embody the line of gesture. We incorporate rhythm, sequencing, mask and countermask.
Torque
Illustrating to the CalArts Animators how this facial structure demands a body that has twists and contradictions.
Aquila Morong Studio
Students in the Pre-College Summer Conservatory learn to feel a character's need with their full bodies engaged.
Aquila Morong Studio
Students take a bow after an intensive summer!