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Strengths
"I think also the freedom to be able to offer an actor an emotion. It’s such a faux pas in any other rehearsal process. You know if somebody says cry here - how dare they! What if I can’t do that? My character doesn’t want to. But here it’s like just go to 3B - Okay done did it. And it makes sense."
Repeatability
"There’s more trust, there’s a cleaner ability to enter an emotion. There’s a heightened listening which helps bring you into an emotion. And yeah it just felt like it was repeatable but it wasn’t script or rigid or prescribed, which is a little interesting dichotomy."
Levels
" Once I had an understanding and a grasp of the range of the mix, because what we talked about is that it can’t be exactly the same all the time - it lives in a kind of range. And if I know what that range is of the mix, because we spent so much time working on specifics and finding out how specific levels can be, once I’ve identified those ranges, I know in my body what that feels like and I can come back to that time and time again"
Safety
" I think it will help to deconstruct this myth that art is pain and to be a good actor you have to somehow become the character, and I think that’s detrimental to the mental health of artists "
workshops
Emotional Fluency in Action
5-day introductory intensive in the BOS Emotional Effector Patterns with Master Teacher Laura Bond and Tom Stroud at the BMO Theatre Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, February 16 -.20, 2019.
Emotional Fluency in Action
5-day introductory intensive in the BOS Emotional Effector Patterns with Master Teacher Laura Bond and Tom Stroud at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, May 13 – 17, 2019.
Emotional Fluency Introductory Workshop
5-day intermediate intensive in the BOS Emotional Effector Patterns with Master Teacher Laura Bond, Ines Buchli and Gayle Murphy at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, May 21 – 25, 2019.
Emotional Fluency Introductory Workshop
5-day 30-hour training in the Emotional Effector Patterns for the Centre for Indigenous Theatre students, graduates and teachers. The training furthered research into the safe and effective practice of emotion in contemporary theatre.
Centre for Indigenous Theatre, January 10-15, 2020, Toronto, Ontario
Online workshop - Part One
16 hours of synchronous instruction and 4 hours of asynchronous instruction in learning the basic Emotional Effector Patterns
Introduction to the Emotional Effector Patterns, December 7-18, 2020
Online workshop - Part Two
16 hours of synchronous instruction and 4 hours of asynchronous instruction in the use of the basic Emotional Effector Patterns in theatre practice
Applications of Emotional Patterns, January 4-15, 2021
Online workshop
8 hours of synchronous advanced instruction on the use of the Emotional Effector Patterns in theatre practice
The Actor’s Emotional Body: Intermediate and Advanced Actors Study, Jan 3 –24, 2021
Online Workshop
25 hours of synchronous advanced instruction in applying the Emotional Effector Patterns in theatre practice and integration into existing acting techniques
Setting the Patterns Free, June 7 -18, 2021
Workshop
30 hours of advanced instruction in applying the Emotional Effector Patterns in theatre practice and integration into existing acting techniques. Led by Tom Stroud
Embracing the Irrational, January 4-8, 2023
Working with Emotion
A Practical Approach for Acting Teachers, Coaches andDirectors, Aug 23-27, 2023, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
PRESENTATIONS
Presentation of the Emotional Fluency Project
The Emotional Fluency project presented the results of a 3-week rehearsal process utilizing the BOS Emotional Effector Patterns. Two presentations were given at the at Joseph G. Green Theatre at York University, Toronto, Ontario, August 1 at 7:30 and August 2 at 2:30.
Presentation of the Emotional Fluency Project
The Emotional Fluency project presented the results of a 3-week rehearsal process utilizing the BOS Emotional Effector Patterns. Two presentations were given at the Dorothy Somerset Studio Theatre at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver B. C., June 27 at 7:30 and June 28 at 2:30.
Rethinking Emotion in Contemporary Theatre
May 19, 2022 “Rethinking Emotion in Contemporary Theatre,” the University of Winnipeg, May 2022. A 90-minute live-stream and in-person presentation of the results of the two-year SSHRC funded Insight Development Grant Utilizing BOS Method Effector Patterns as a Mechanism for Emotion Control in Contemporary Acting. Presenters: Tom Stroud and Ines Buchli.
Conference Presentation and Praxis Workshop
June 16, 2022 “Challenging the Taboo of Emotion in Theatre Practice,” the Canadian Association of Theatre Research Conference, Performing Emergence: RePlay, ReCollect, ReExist, the University of Lethbridge, June 2022. A 90-minute livestream and in-person presentation and praxis workshop led by Tom Stroud.
WORKSHOP INFO
HISTORY OF ALBA AND THE BOS EMOTIONAL EFFECTOR PATTERNS
PRESENTATIONS
Contact Us
Emotional Fluency Project
822 Dorchester Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3M 0R7, Canada
(204) 770-3886 WINNIPEG (604) 879-2797 VANCOUVER (416) 737-6939 TORONTO
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