"There is nothing without an Archetype." - Master Actor and Acting Teacher, Michael Chekhov

What is the cause of all action, in life and on-stage? Archetypes. Archetype Work can enhance virtually any professional's work. It profoundly deepens the connection to your imagination, radically expanding the expressiveness of your body and voice. It can be said that your psyche is "made" of Archetypes. Archetypes are the imaginative programs in your brain that cause universally recognizable behaviors, movements and sounds. Your behavior, in life and while acting, results from your unique combination of Archetypes and memories. Archetypes are the foundation of characterization.

Thus, access to a whole range of Archetypes is a requirement to be a professional actor. Archetype Work, as taught at our school, is a tool all professional actors should have. Our Archetype Intensives offer deep immersion in the psychology and practice of this powerful work. This work is not therapy but, like great acting, is healing and therapeutic. It is safe, fun and deeply rewarding. It is "consciousness" work that impacts your acting like nothing else.

In the Archetype Intensive:

• You cultivate further access to a whole range of very real energies, emotions, states-of being, voices, bodies, ways of thinking and ways of imagining -- Archetypes.

• You increase your ability to access these altered states-of-being anytime, anywhere.

• You explore how you can use your dreams to create unique acting choices, real states-of-being, imagined places, people and original characterizations.

• You deepen your understanding of The Psychology of Selves, perhaps the most powerful script analysis tool available, when combined with traditional script analysis tools.

• You expand your understanding of the causes of human vulnerability, conflict, attraction, repulsion. This enables you to even more quickly identify, create and access a character's loves and conflicts -- experientially!

• You develop your vocabulary of universal vulnerability and Archetypes. This allows you to even more quickly identify and experientially create character wants, goals, inner obstacles and actions in all kinds of scripts!

• You deepen your exploration of the Archetypes professional actors must have automatic access to to get frequent work: The Masculine, The Feminine, The Killer, The Hero, The Victim, The Pleaser, The Joker, The Traditionalist, The Business Person, The Liar, The Romantic, The Slut, The Old Soul, The Spiritualist, The Magical Child, The Playful Child, The Vulnerable Child, and more.

• You learn how to do this work with other actors, as a facilitator, so you can take this work with you wherever you go.

Time and time again, highly trained actors take this intensive and say it was a missing piece of the acting puzzle. They say it makes their previous training far more accessible and practical. By the end of this workshop, you may view human interactions and scripts in a transformed way. You will be able to pick up a script and make quick decisions about the nature and ways in which the characters are at war -- deciding upon strong, playable objectives, actions and tactics. We will analyze a well-known movie during the course of the intensive.

Included in this intensive is "The Voice Dialogue Series and The Psychology of Selves," with Dr. Hal Stone and Dr. Sidra Stone - 12 hours of DVD instruction and demonstrations and 8 CD Audios for check-out anytime.

The Archetype Intensive is a package deal, offered three times a year. It meets for four days at a beautiful two bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, offering the feel of a home, a full kitchen, parks near-by and privacy. To be accepted into the Archetype Intensive, you must have one 90 minute Archetype session with Jason Bennett or a trained facilitator. A maximum of 12 students are accepted into each intensive -- and the workshop is taught by fourteachers -- all teachers present for the entire workshop. You receive a certificate of completion at the end of your training. The cost for this intensive is $645. SIGN-UP IS NOW.

Next workshop dates are September, 2010.

Additional Private Archetype Sessions with Jason Bennett, Dr. Martha-Lou Cohen, Dr. Dassie Hoffman or Bridgit Gaspard, by appointment.

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Archetypal Voice Workshop with Master Voice Teacher Jonathan Hart: You will experience a liberating and in-depth exploration of your voice, body and psyche. Roy Hart teachers view the voice as a channel through which your 'many selves' can be consciously realized and integrated into your life and your acting. Roy Hart teachers approach voice work through intense archetypal exploration, spontaneous imaging and formless improvisation. As actors, you must tell stories using your body and voice, controlled by your mind. That is what this workshop is all about: connecting you to, and releasing, your body and voice. To attend this workshop, you must have attended the Archetype Workshop I. 6 weeks, 2 hour classes. TBA Fall, 2010, Cost: $345.

As with all workshops at our school, we are unable to offer refunds for workshops once they are paid for and commited to.