Introduction to Acting Skills – the course is founded on the traditional training values of Stanislavsky and of his philosophical descendants. Students examine the bases of drama: high stakes, conflict, uncertain outcome and identification with the protagonist. Laban efforts are studied as a precursor to the notion of transitive or affective action based in whole body engagement with others and the text. This unit puts emphasis on improvisation, impulse work, connecting with the dramatic imagination, personification, sensory awareness, story telling, focus, stage awareness and working in an ensemble.