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Acting Techniques for Effective Communication

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Overview

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Learn how to convince and engage an audience by exploring the tools and techniques used by actors, from humor and silence to authenticity
  • Introduction
  • Acting and Communication
  • Time to Act
  • Recording Yourself: Shooting a Self-Tape
  • Final project
Acting is communicating. Give authenticity and strength to your message using these performer’s tools.

Ivo Muller is a professional actor and teacher who has performed on stage, television, and film in a career spanning countries including Brazil, Argentina, and the United States. He is a passionate advocate for effective communication that builds on traditional acting skills.

In this online course, Ivo teaches you how to convince and engage your audiences using acting tools—for castings, presentations, or talks. Learn from the greats of Greek acting and philosophy, harness the incredible powers of silence and humor, before embarking on your final project—a self-tape monologue that demonstrates your newfound communication skills.

Syllabus

  • About Me
  • Influences
  • Why Acting Tools?
  • The Greeks and the First Actor
  • Acting Training and Authenticity
  • The Words: Memorizing without Memorizing
  • The Power of Silence
  • Engaging with the Reader or Audience
  • Humor and Spontaneity
  • Working in Three Dimensions
  • Choosing the Material
  • Practicing with the Material
  • Destroying to Reconstruct
  • Possible Setups and Recording Yourself
  • Acting Techniques for Effective Communication

Taught by

Ivo Müller

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