Movement For Actors
Through this training, Actors will develop a sense of awareness toward their own instruments (themselves). Just like a musical instrument, it has to be cared, maintained, exercised and tuned-up for performance. In order to do so, first, an actor needs to learn about one’s own instrument. Each actor has a different instrument, and gaining the knowledge of them is a key to achieve the state of openness, which leads to the condition of “readiness.” (Available Body: being ready to perform in public; being able to live / to breath as a character)
Through warm-ups, games, series of exercises and explorations, they develop not only physical & mental confidence, concentration and relaxation, but also stimulate their imaginations and creativities. Furthermore, actors will develop the craft of adjusting own instruments subtly but effectively in order to move them the way they want. This training cultivates actors’ potential abilities physically, energetically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually, and it brings out the best possible variety of expressions in their arts. Regardless of previous experiences, this training gives actors the foundation of movement craft for actors which encourages them to access their instruments more holistically and synthesis with their acting and voice crafts.
Through warm-ups, games, series of exercises and explorations, they develop not only physical & mental confidence, concentration and relaxation, but also stimulate their imaginations and creativities. Furthermore, actors will develop the craft of adjusting own instruments subtly but effectively in order to move them the way they want. This training cultivates actors’ potential abilities physically, energetically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually, and it brings out the best possible variety of expressions in their arts. Regardless of previous experiences, this training gives actors the foundation of movement craft for actors which encourages them to access their instruments more holistically and synthesis with their acting and voice crafts.
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Subjects in Movement For Actors
Merry Conway Movement & Trish Arnold’s Pure Movement, Analysis of Movement Laban Movement Analysis Butoh Games, Basic Lecoq & Clown Yoga, Basic Gymnastic / Acrobat Energy & Relaxation Noguchi Movement Physical Theatre Ensemble Theatre Devised Theatre |
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Adjunct Associate Professor
Improvisational Movement III & IV Actors Studio Drama School MFA Pace University Movement, BA Acting & Directing International Ensemble Pace Performing Arts Adjunct Faculty Movement Faculty LIU Brooklyn / The New Group BFA Studio Program Acting for Theatre, Film & Television Yoga Instructor Jikiden Reiki Teacher YOKKO YOGA NYC Private Moon Cycle Yoga Nidra Meditation The Artistic Director, Main Instructor RenGyoSoh Training Course: I. Butoh & Movement II. Butoh & Movement in Creation Workshops -Clown + Butoh=Infinite Possibilities -Transformation -Butoh & Movement -Cultivating Your Instrument -Movement For Actors |
Yoshiko Usami Sienkiewicz (AKA Yokko) is an actor and an interdisciplinary artist from Japan specialized in Butoh, Theatre and Movement. Yokko has acted in, devised, and choreographed a variety of local and international shows and films, winning various awards, including “Best One-Woman Show,” “Best Choreography,” “Best Physical Theatre,” and "Best Actress" for Butoh Medea, in festivals such as United Solo NYC at Theatre Row (2014 & 2015) and the Hollywood Fringe (2018). Butoh Medea appeared in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, winning a nomination for the “Asian Arts Awards.” It has toured the US and Europe (Poland, UK, Italy, Turkey, Germany and Czech Republic) since 2015. Another of Yokko’s original productions, Hide Your Fires: Butoh Lady Macbeth, premiered at Pan Asian Rep’s NuWorks (2017), was the winner of the “Best Physical Theatre” award at United Solo NYC (2017), and “Best International Show” at the Hollywood Fringe (2019). Yokko’s choreographed & directed ensemble work SHINKA won “Outstanding Premier Production of a Play,” and “Outstanding Choreography and Movement” at The New York Innovative Theatre Awards (2019). Recently, Yokko’s Butoh work has been seen in several music & arts videos, including I Don’t Know Where We Went Wrong (HOKO, 2020), and Ready To Let Go (Cage The Elephant, 2019), and The 8 dissolutions at Morris Museum, Paz 10 gallery and Times sq billboard (Erik Bergrin, 2022)
Yokko has been offering their workshops in the USA & Europe since 2014. Yokko has taught “Butoh & Movement,” “Movement for Actors,” “Physical Theatre,” “Japanese Theatre'' and “Transformation” at such institutions as SUNY New Paltz, St. Lawrence University, University of North Alabama, Amherst College, City College of New York, Union College, Stella Adler Academy of Acting (Los Angeles), The Actors Studio (NYC), Occidental College, and Shakespeare & Company (Lenox, MA). She has served as an adjunct faculty member, Brooklyn College MFA Acting, The New Group/LIU Brooklyn BFA Acting Studio, Pace Performing Arts BA Acting & Directing International Performance Ensemble, Dell’ Arte International, Atelier Teatro Fisico (Turin, Italy), and Actors Studio Drama School MFA at Pace University. Yokko has published an article with her collaborator Dr. Brian Rhinehart, titled “Why Butoh Theatre: Thoughts of the Actor, Questions from the Director, published by Routledge / Taylor and Francis (2020). Yokko is the recipient of the G. William Hume Fellowship in 2023, and several other scholarships, residency and grants in performing arts. Yokko is the founder and Artistic Director of a NY Based Butoh Theatre Group, RenGyoSoh (2014-), the producing artistic director of Unfix NYC Festival. (2016-). Photos
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俳優の為の動作訓練 （Movement For Actors):
欧米の大学機関やプロの俳優養成所の訓練では演技 (Acting)、声 (Voice)、動作 (Movement) の３科目が必須で、俳優の技巧(craft)を育てる重要な要素となります。今回は日本ではあまり注目されていない役者の為の動作トレーニングをご紹介したいと思います。Actor の心身は楽器 (instrument) のようなものです。そして自身は楽器奏者であると同時に楽器そのものなのです。私が大学等で一年かけて紹介しているMovement For Actorsの過程ではその楽器 (ActorのBodyMind) の調律 (チューニング) から始まり、次に育て 、そしてその楽器(自身)を活用し、役を体現します。今回はその中でもチューニング を中心にご紹介しますので、少しでもその世界を体感して頂けたらと思います。
講師：Yokko
経歴：NYを拠点に欧米で活動する Actor、Performing Artist、振付師、Movement 講師、演出等。舞踏と演劇を混ぜた自身の作品、「舞踏メディア」が数々の賞をとり、欧米各地で2014年からツアー公演をしている。公演と同時にツアー先で自身のワークショップも開くよう依頼されたことがきっかけで、講師としての機会も増え、その流れで現在はニューヨークのアクターズスタジオドラマスクール(MFA)を始めとするNYにある俳優養成プログラム等でMovement 講師を務めている。(ストラスバーグ演劇学校は今秋から）講師活動の合間にも役者として他作品への出演、ミュージシャンやビジュアルアーティストとのコラボ、そして自身の作品創りや発表も続け、精力的に活動している。Movement For ActorsとしてはMerry Conwayに主に師事。演技: The Actors Studio (エリザベス・ケンプ, ジャクリーン・ナップ, スーザン・アストン), ヴォイス:リンクレイター, ムーブメント: 多数, シェイクスピア: Shakespeare & Company, クラウン: マイケル・エフ・トューミー
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からだ全体で役を体現して、その瞬間を「いき」る。
embodying a character, and living in a moment
からだとこころでの物語り
storytelling through body-mind
感覚から生まれる感情
emotion from sensation
欧米の大学機関やプロの俳優養成所の訓練では演技 (Acting)、声 (Voice)、動作 (Movement) の３科目が必須で、俳優の技巧(craft)を育てる重要な要素となります。今回は日本ではあまり注目されていない役者の為の動作トレーニングをご紹介したいと思います。Actor の心身は楽器 (instrument) のようなものです。そして自身は楽器奏者であると同時に楽器そのものなのです。私が大学等で一年かけて紹介しているMovement For Actorsの過程ではその楽器 (ActorのBodyMind) の調律 (チューニング) から始まり、次に育て 、そしてその楽器(自身)を活用し、役を体現します。今回はその中でもチューニング を中心にご紹介しますので、少しでもその世界を体感して頂けたらと思います。
講師：Yokko
経歴：NYを拠点に欧米で活動する Actor、Performing Artist、振付師、Movement 講師、演出等。舞踏と演劇を混ぜた自身の作品、「舞踏メディア」が数々の賞をとり、欧米各地で2014年からツアー公演をしている。公演と同時にツアー先で自身のワークショップも開くよう依頼されたことがきっかけで、講師としての機会も増え、その流れで現在はニューヨークのアクターズスタジオドラマスクール(MFA)を始めとするNYにある俳優養成プログラム等でMovement 講師を務めている。(ストラスバーグ演劇学校は今秋から）講師活動の合間にも役者として他作品への出演、ミュージシャンやビジュアルアーティストとのコラボ、そして自身の作品創りや発表も続け、精力的に活動している。Movement For ActorsとしてはMerry Conwayに主に師事。演技: The Actors Studio (エリザベス・ケンプ, ジャクリーン・ナップ, スーザン・アストン), ヴォイス:リンクレイター, ムーブメント: 多数, シェイクスピア: Shakespeare & Company, クラウン: マイケル・エフ・トューミー
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からだ全体で役を体現して、その瞬間を「いき」る。
embodying a character, and living in a moment
からだとこころでの物語り
storytelling through body-mind
感覚から生まれる感情
emotion from sensation
