About ADPS
Actors Daily Practice Space (ADPS) is designed to benefit actors concentrating their career path in contemporary theatre practice. It provides intensive physical and vocal training for performers wanting to further develop and maintain their individual performance craft.
Theatre masters Jerzy Grotowski and Konstantin Stanislavski both emphasize the need for the actor to commit to ‘daily training and ongoing professional education in addition to his/her work on performances’, in the endeavour to ‘supersede the limits of one's abilities’.
ADPS allows actors to continue to develop their:
- 'Extra daily' awareness
- Strengthen physical articulation and receptivity to impulse
- Eradicate blockages both physical and psychological
- Hone their skills in text based work
- Learn how to score a line of physical actions
- Be a part of ongoing research and investigation into the inner workings of the actor's craft.
It’s a place to meet and work with like-minded professionals, stimulate creative inspiration and perhaps even begin a new project!
Note from the Director
I wanted to create a space for actors and performers who have had training to further develop and maintain that level of training. A place to continue their daily practice after drama school, (or other forms of training) and in between professional acting jobs. When actors stop training they tend to lose the ‘extra daily’ awareness and responsiveness that they spent years developing. Just as a dancer or musician practices their instrument in order to master it, so too for the actor, the only difference being that actors need other actors to train with. Some actors are not fortunate enough to be part of a theatre company that engages in regular daily practice, these Labs hope to try and fill that gap.
I know through my own experience that there are times when you feel full of creative energy and want to further your learning or create something but can’t find the people or opportunity to do so, and end up spending a lot of time overseas- where there is a wide range of workshops and specialised training available.
I wanted to create a place based in Brisbane, where professional actors can engage in further training. To stimulate their creative energies by trying out a new technique or process; through creating characters and devising scenarios; experimenting with composition; developing scenes from a text; as well as ‘drop in’ group sessions that mimic the physical discipline training an actor receives in a theatre company.
Due to the inconsistent nature of work available for artists we can sometimes get caught up in our ‘day jobs’ and lose touch with what we initially set out to do or become. This space is to remind you of that and hopefully inspire you to keep going and growing!
Brenda
