Mike Alfreds is offering a masterclass of seven 2-hour sessions on Laban Efforts. He will work on the eight archetypes (Floating, Gliding, Dabbing, Flicking, Slashing, Wringing, Pressing, Thrusting), exploring the way in which body, voice, feeling and thought are integrated so that actors can function fully and equally in all aspects of their expressiveness. Laban increases the actor’s ability to break pattern, develop flexibility and provides an invaluable approach to characterisation. || The structure of the course will be, more or less, as follows: Day 1: The elements of weight, space and time: the building blocks of the Efforts || Day 2: Floating/Thrusting Wednesday || Day 3: Dabbing/Wringing Thursday || Day 4: Flicking/Pressing || Day 5: Gliding/Slashing (No class on the WEEKEND) || Day 6: Recapitulation of the Efforts and Characterization || Day 7: Applying Laban to a Text