SCHOLARSHIPS
Expressive Actor Fellowship for ATME Members
FELLOWSHIP
Tuition to the 8-Day Expressive Actor Teacher Training Intensive
($1000 Financial Assistance)
DATES
June 1 -9, 2020
LOCATION
University of West Texas A&M
(Transportation, Housing & Per Diem not included)
ELIGIBILITY:
Be a member in good standing of ATME
Articulate an interest in professional development exploring integrated methods of voice, movement and acting practice
Hold a professional affiliation with a school, college, university or other public or private voice training entity
Be a first time participant at an Expressive Actor sponsored workshop.
APPLICATION:
Email the following to:michael@expressiveactor.org:
Cover letter articulating interest
Resume
Headshot (jpeg)
Application Deadline: May 1, 2020
TESTIMONIALS: PAST ATME FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS
The Expressive Actor work is truly unique. I’ve been exposed to range of movement methodologies. I didn’t know I could still be surprised. This work is insightful and truly integrated. Experiencing and embodying the work allowed me to unlock my voice and new aspects of somatic understanding. The Expressive Actor philosophy is built on foundation of solid research into how the mind and body work together; this is not flash-in-the-pan methodology. Just as the Viewpoints gives language to the basic building blocks of working in space and time, the Expressive Actor work provides a vocabulary for describing the building blocks of action and human communication. This is good stuff. As scholarships go, the one offered by The Expressive Actor training is extremely generous. The value of the training is high and I would challenge you to find a better bang for your buck, even at the full price. As an emerging scholar, I cannot afford the premium prices of most certification and training programs. It was liberating to train and learn at relatively low financial risk, broadening my pedagogical skill set, as well as my personal practice. Michael is a wonderful host and helped all the participants to feel welcomed and included.
-Julia Rada
ATME 2016 Fellowship Recipient
Michael Lugering is a clear and sensitive acting teacher who bases his work in the intelligence, ease, and intrinsic power of the human body. His training offered me concrete techniques to instantly engage my body, voice, and imagination to authentically deepen my expressivity. I left feeling very inspired and immediately implemented my discoveries into my own classroom.
-Joyce Lu
2017 Fellowship Recipient
Pomona College
Expressive Actor Scholarship for VASTA Members
SCHOLARSHIP
Tuition to the 8-Day Expressive Actor Teacher Training Intensive
($900 Financial Assistance)
DATES
June 1 -9, 2020
LOCATION
University of West Texas A&M
(Transportation, Housing & Per Diem not included)
ELIGIBILITY:
Be a member in good standing of VASTA
Articulate an interest in professional development exploring integrated methods of voice, movement and acting practice
Hold a professional affiliation with a school, college, university or other public or private voice training entity
Be a first time participant at an Expressive Actor sponsored workshop
APPLICATION:
Email the following to:michael@expressiveactor.org:
Cover letter articulating interest
Resume
Headshot (jpeg)
Application Deadline: May 1, 2020
TESTIMONIALS: PAST VASTA SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
As a movement and voice teacher, I have long been interested in how the body and voice work together. In Michael Lugering’s Expressive Actor Teacher Training, I felt knit together. My professional experience as a teacher and performer came together through a synthesis of acting, voice, and movement. Michael Lugering is a patient and kind teacher who listens attentively and adapts his class to all the levels of the participants. I am so grateful to have found Expressive Actor training as a way to be fully and freely myself in dynamic relationships. As a Certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, a Certified Laban Movement Analyst, and, now, a teacher of Michale Lugering’s Expressive Actor Training, I look forward to exploring relationships between voice, acting, and movement modalities and Expressive Actor Integrated Voice, Movement, and Acting Training.
-Artemis Preeshi
2017 Vasta Scholarship Recipient
I went to the Expressive Actor workshop with an interest in broadening my language for interdisciplinary work with actors. I am a singer/dancer who works mostly with actors in voice and speech. While I consider myself to be well versed in interdisciplinary work, I came away with many immediately implementable practices and, most importantly, a thirst for further exploration in the classroom and in my own practice. Through the Expressive Actor Workshop, Michael Lugering offers an opportunity for integrative practitioners to explore the great desire for specificity of language and specificity of practice. As a group we considered the means by which actors can respond to impulses with a united body, breath and voice first experientially and then through discussion. Michael created a space for intensive work in his own fields of study followed by an engaging and open space to discuss and combine ideas. Michael's work offers very practical and easily implementable modules that bring an actor's desire to express first through free movement in their body and consequently through their breath and finally through an integrated body and voice. His workshop creates space to discover, rediscover, or sharpen a personal, embodied connection to impulses and is an excellent opportunity for teachers and actors to come together to explore actor training as a whole.
-Ann Marie White
2016 Vasta Scholarship Recipient