Weekly Classes, Weekend Workshops, & Private Coaching

WEEKLY IMPROVISATIONAL ACTING AND MOVEMENT CLASSES

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2008 SCHEDULE BOSTON AREA
FOR DAENA'S WORKSHOPS

Next Weekly Improvisational Acting Workshop...

MORNING CLASSES
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EVENING CLASSES!
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Experience the thrill of spontaneous creativity when faced with the unexpected!

"Improvisation is the art of navigating the unexpected with flexibility, gusto, and creativity. Practicing the skills of improvisation helps us express ourselves freely, take risks, and increase our collaborative abilities. It liberates our imagination and sense of humor. The goal is to become more comfortable in our own skin as we show up to meet the offers in each moment with authenticity and spontaneity."
~Daena Giardella

  • Master the ability to express yourself spontaneously.

  • Discover the fun and freedom of trusting your creative impulses in a safe and supportive atmosphere that encourages risk-taking, experimentation, and honesty.

  • Practice the skills of acting improvisation as you learn how to craft spontaneous scenes, believable characters, dialogue, and monologues -- learn how to build on improvisational invitations instead of blocking them.

  • Experiment with effective tools for dealing with the "inner critic;" coaching to overcome inhibitions & self-consciousness.

  • Explore both humorous and dramatic material.

  • Learn how to develop personal stories and turn them into theatre.

  • Use your improvisation skills in everyday life.

Daena has pioneered a popular, innovative, and movement based approach for teaching improvisational acting to people from all walks of life.  Her insightful coaching, mastered over 25 years of practice, helps students become versatile improvisers and actors. Classes include participants from all levels of experience. Beginners welcome!  

"Daena Giardella is brilliant.  I found her work to be extremely resonant, relevant, moving and funny.  She gets to the essence of what is important.  I wholeheartedly recommend her performances and classes to everyone."
-Natalie Goldberg, Author "Writing Down the Bones" & "Wild Mind"

Call 617-924-9596
for cost and registration info
or E-Mail daena@daenagiardella.com

This weekly series provides participants with an exciting ongoing training. Participants have the opportunity to investigate and develop the skills of acting improvisation in a laboratory where the regularity of meetings offers people a cumulative learning experience of practice and growth as an improviser. The ongoing nature of the meetings also helps create a fun and supportive group environment that enhances the trust level as each individual experiments with his/her "growing edge."


WEEKLY IMPROVISATIONAL ACTING AND MOVEMENT CLASSES

Also! New Evening Workshop Series...

Your Creative Process

Thursday Evenings
Starting June 12th, 2008
6:45 - 9:45pm - for 5 weeks
No class July 3rd - Last class July 17th
in Watertown, MA

"YOUR CREATIVE PROCESS" is a laboratory workshop for each participant to identify his/her particular cycles/stages of creativity while working on specific projects or goals from week-to-week in class.  Our focus will be on each person's process of creation. Overcoming blocks,  getting out of ruts and stuck places, inviting new inspiration, learning how to deal with the inner critic and resistance, finding focus, creating realistic goals, and recognizing predictable personal patterns will be part of our work together as we support each person to find creative freedom and satisfaction.

The series is aimed at people who are looking to jump-start, rediscover, support, rekindle, or simply explore their creative passion as well as those who are currently working on a specific project (it might be a monologue, non-fiction writing, screenplay, presentation, painting, story, dance, stand-up comedy, poem, novel, etc.). Our format invites participants to explore from whatever stage they happen to be moving through in the cycles of creation. Open exploration as well as focus on particular goals are welcome.  Each person has the opportunity to create the kind of experience that suits his/her current creative needs.

In addition to improvisation, movement, acting, and physical/vocal presentation  exercises, a big focus of this new workshop is the use of spontaneous writing in class. The key ingredient in this laboratory is the creation of an atmosphere of trust, safety, and mutual support so that experimentation, risk-taking, insight, and honesty might unfold. Be assured of plenty of humor too!

For registration or other info
call 617-924-9596
or E-Mail daena@daenagiardella.com
IMPROVISATION WORKSHOPS

Next Weekend Workshop

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The One Day Workshop format offers participants a uniquely concentrated focus on the skills of acting improvisation. It is ideal for people who wish to explore and deepen their improvisational practice through a more intensive all day experience. It is also an excellent opportunity for people who are unable to attend a weekly class or for others who would like to get a "taste" of Daena's approach before embarking on a full commitment to an ongoing training.

For More info on
"Acting From The Moment"
IMPROVISATION WORKSHOPS
Call 617-924-9596 or email daena@daenagiardella.com

Individualized private coaching available!

Daena Offers Private Coaching Sessions

Daena's one-on-one coaching sessions are individually tailored to address the needs and goals of each person. You can choose from a variety of focus areas, including:

  • learning effective presentation skills as you develop physical and verbal flexibility
  • exploring and cultivating Your Creative Process
  • preparing for an audition, play, presentation or job interview
  • enhancing your communication skills and self-expression
  • exploring your life/work choices & transitions
  • overcoming performance anxiety and stage fright

Daena also coaches writers and performers who are interested in generating or honing original material for stage, fiction, or memoir projects.

FOR MORE DETAILS CALL: 617.924.9596
or e-mail daena@daenagiardella.com

THEATRE RETREATS

Theatre Retreat Workshops


Stay Tuned for Next Dates!


For over 20 years Daena has been offering THEATRE RETREAT WORKSHOPS in beautiful natural settings away from the stresses of everyday life where participants have the opportunity to practice the skills of acting and movement improvisation in a format that creates expansiveness of time and space. Recently Daena has been thrilled to bring a 5-day workshop to the profoundly inspiring beauty of New Mexico.


Go to "Theatre Retreats in Nature" for enthusiastic responses from New Mexico Theatre Retreat participants.

FOR MORE DETAILS CALL: 617.924.9596
or e-mail daena@daenagiardella.com

 

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