Sally Williams still remembers the awe she felt watching David Harris and Moscow Art Theatre's renowned Basyra Hunter direct fellow students in a scene from Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at Ryerson Theatre School in 1972.
"I had never been stopped in my tracks and speechless, as I was that evening," Williams recalled. "How could the people before me be so utterly natural and artistically alive and sensuous all at once? That moment was the beginning of a decades long journey of inquiry and discovery."
Four decades of study, teaching and performing in Canada, the U.S. and Russia has led Williams to design a special ritual of exercises for performers, which she will share in the Actor's Work-Out, offered through Driftwood Theatre School in February.
"Step by step, exercise by exercise we'll begin to meet the sweet challenge of working with the actor's most essential tool, the self - body and soul.As an actor, storyteller, dancer or curious creature, the ritual is invaluable," she said.
Contact Williams at 604-886-1701, Sandi McGinnis at 604-886-0451, email [email protected] or see www.driftwoodplayers.ca/dts.htm for further details and to register.
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