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Yat/Bentley Centre Introductory Class

YAT WORK: Roadmap to Character

5 Week Introduction

Saturdays, June 29, July 6-27, 1pm - 4pm

If you want a life punctuated with wonder and discovery, with a core value of generosity, vital artistic expression and a willingness to dig deep, YOU BELONG WITH US HERE AT YBC.

JOIN US for a 5 week introduction for new students who want to grow ambitiously as artists and who want to investigate the vital muscularity of the Yat Work.

At YBC the Yat Work (described below) is further developed by Tom's many decades teaching, directing, writing and performing, culminating in a technique that creates inner freedom, that removes blocks, and that trains artists to see the world with a clarity and incisiveness that leads to deep, nuanced character work. Tom was one of Yat's final private students.

In this introductory class you'll begin to learn Yat and Tom's unique, methodological approach to deep character transformation resulting in a measurable expansion of range and a palpable deepening of character development. Students also find a growing internal freedom artistically and personally.

Physical work, text, character, voice, and movement cultivate depth of character and presence. The work meets each student exactly where they are, right now, and allows for rapid growth and shifts. Simple and profoundly transformational, what you learn can be utilized in your ongoing creative projects for years to come.

By the end of the workshop, you will have been introduced to the major components of Yat's work.

8 Working Actions
4 Mental Factors
4 Motion Factors
6 Inner Attitudes
4 Externatlized Drives

LIMITED ENROLLMENT

Actors trained in the Yat Method include:

- Oscar-winners: Anthony Hopkins, Cate Blanchett, Sean Connery and Colin Firth,
- BAFTA Rising Star winner: Tom Hardy (Dark Knight Rises), and
- Critically acclaimed rising stars Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) and Michael Fassbender (X-Men) among many other actors.

Yat Work is also known as Movement Psychology and The Laban-Malmgren System of Character Analysis.

DAY/TIME:
Saturdays, June 29, July 6-27, 1pm - 4pm

WEAR:
Comfortable clothing you can move freely in

BRING:
Water and lunch/snack

LOCATION:
Jeffrey Bihr Studio, 5390 Miles Ave, Oakland, CA

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ABOUT YAT WORK
Long known in Europe, and just beginning to arrive in the U.S. trailblazer Yat Malmgren's life work offers a methodological and dynamic approach to the creation of character. Through a series of building blocks the actor learns to transform and the writer to create characters with textured individual makeups. Where the American assumption is that we create character using the truth of who we are at the base, Yat Work allows an internal shift through the which the performer can become unrecognizable, able to experience the world through lenses that would not otherwise have been perceivable or available. It becomes the difference between a great actor who is always themselves playing a role and a great actor who disappears before the audience and can make way for a completely separate human being.

ABOUT TOM BENTLEY-FISHER:
Tom Bentley-Fisher has directed and performed in Europe, Canada, and the United States and taught at universities, theatre schools and on-going studio classes for well over 40 years. He began as an actor, training in New York and London with Sanford Meisner and Yat Malmgren, and then performed in London's West End, appearing with theater artists such as Vanessa Redgrave before moving on to directing and teaching. Tom has served as Artistic Director of five professional theatres internationally and is currently the Artistic Director of Yat/Bentley Centre for Performance. He continues to teach and direct in North America and Europe.
To learn more about Tom please visit www.tombentleyfisher.com

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