Chubbuck Technik & Acting in Crime/Thriller

A Workshop on the Chubbuck Technique and Acting in Crime/ Thriller Stories

mit Elisabet Sevholt

Crime and thriller stories deal with the basic human needs and people in life – and – death situations. In order to avoid a black and white characterization when we act in these stories we have to go to the bottom of it all – the drive for power, love, sex, money, human dignity etc. And this is what the Chubbuck Technique is all about! We will spend three very intensive days applying the Chubbuck technique to scenes from the crime/ thriller world (movies, TV-series). We will address why people kill, why people steal, why people cheat on, abuse and hurt other people etc. We will work on methods of how to experience organic fear, how to feel the effect of drugs, how to cope with facing death, dying, people close to us dying and how to feel physical pain as well as afflicing pain on others – all measured up with falling in love, experiencing close friendship and family ties – and all things that make us human.

The Chubbuck Technique creates a modern, cutting-edge acting based on Stanislavskij’s method. The technique is excellent for movie and TV acting giving you effective tools to create depth and complexity to the character . Besides the 12 steps of the Chubbuck Technique the workshop also covers how to write an emotional diary, how to find organic sadness and fear, how be drunk or on drugs on screen/stage, sexual chemistry with your scene partner etc.

The workshop is primarily for actors, but is also interesting for directors, script writers, casting directors.

An intense three-day scene workshop using the Chubbuck Technique. During the first day we will analyse and work on the scenes from the character’s point of view and find the personal connection to what the character is going through. In the evening you will rehearse with your scene partner incorporating what has happened during the day. On the second day we continue working on the scenes and the twelve steps of the technique as well as on various exercises on fear, death and dying, alchohol and drugs etc. (again you will rehearse individually and with your scene partner in the evening). On the third day we will address the final step of the technique- the ”letting go and get out of the head” which is crutial for creating a living, breathing human being on screen/stage.

Two weeks before the workshop you will receive a scene partner and scene from a film or TV-series. If two actors from the same city, company etc. want to work together you can do that if you let me know. Read Ivana Chubbuck’s book ”The power of the Actor” and use the 12 steps in the book when you prepare the scene. Rehearse at least two times together with your scene partner apart from working individually before the workshop. – Elisabet Sevholt

Ivana Chubbuck Technique

Teilnahmerücktritt: Bei Rücktritt per mail bis 6 Wochen vor Seminarbeginn fällt keine Gebühr an. Bei Rücktritt bis 4 Wochen vor Seminarbeginn fällt nur eine Bearbeitungsgebühr von 5% an. Bis 21 Tage vor Workshopbeginn wird nur eine Stornogebühr von 30 % fällig, danach 50 %. Der restliche Betrag wird zurückerstattet. Bei Rücktritt 2 Tage vor Beginn oder am Tage des Workshops ist eine Rückerstattung des Betrags nicht mehr möglich, es kann aber ein Ersatzteilnehmer/in gestellt werden.

Ivana Chubbuck Technique & Acting in Crime/Thriller Stories

Chubbuck Technique Berlin

Ivana Chubbuck Technique