Psychological Gesture in Action

Join us in PSYCHOLOGICAL GESTURE in ACTION to create & work with your own material during a carefully crafted 3-week progression in Michael Chekhov's Acting Technique: 32+ hours & 3 Live Online Sessions with Ted Pugh, Fern Sloan & Ragnar Freidank

On-Demand Classes

Work with over 7 hours of new material each week on your own time
3 Live Check-In Sessions

Taking place on Saturdays: 1/13, 1/20, 1/27, 2024 from 3pm - 4pm NY time
Accessibility

Live Online Sessions scheduled to accommodate European & Asian time

January 6-27, 2024

3-Week Program of ON-DEMAND CLASSES + LIVE ONLINE CHECK-IN SESSIONS with Ted Pugh, Fern Sloan & Ragnar Freidank

Join 3 weeks with Michael Chekhov's Psychological Gesture to practically work with your material
Engage each week with 7+ new hours of on-demand classes in a carefully curated progression
Follow the curriculum as it unfolds while working with the classes on your own schedule
Ask anything & receive clarification from Ted, Fern & Ragnar during check-in sessions
Create & share your work with material and receive support in your process
Receive an Imaginary Certificate from the Michael Chekhov School upon completion
Enjoy access to all your classes for three extra weeks after the course has ended
SAVE $220, compared to subscribing to all included courses individually

"If we really understand the Psychological Gesture, we will see that there are no limits for us as actors because everything can be turned into the Psychological Gesture... It is a door through which we can enter and take everything and turn them into things which we can act." Michael Chekhov

3 Week Course: January 6-27

THIS COURSE HAS ENDED

Course curriculum

1. User-Guide / CURRICULUM
1. Video Tutorial: How to access your Audio / Video Library
1. PG I - SESSION 1 "Psychological Gesture / Form + Space"
2. PG I - SESSION 2 "Psychological Gesture / Full Body"
3. PG I - SESSION 3 "Psychological Gesture / Wholeness"
1. THERE YOU ARE – “Technique & Inspiration”
2. THE INTANGIBLES – “Living Processes”
3. THERE’S SOMEONE AT THE DOOR – “Imaginary Interference”
4. WHAT A MESS! – “Life is always there”
5. MARGINALIZED VOICES – “Speak about me!”
6. BATTLE OF IMAGES – “Imaginary Conflict”
7. I FEEL TOO MUCH, GIVE ME A PILL – “Sensation”
1. "SENSATION"
2. "CURVED / STRAIGHT"
3. "CHARACTERIZATION"
4. "EXPANDING / CONTRACTING"
5. "IMAGINATION"
1. INNER OCEAN
2. IMAGINARY SPACE
3. DOING NOTHING
4. BODY AS LANDSCAPE
5. FOUND CHARACTERS
6. WORLD OF THINGS
1. Joanna Merlin - Imagination
1. Upload Tutorial
2. Upload Link / Your Material
1. Live Online - with Ted, Fern & Ragnar: "Check-In, Questions & Expectations"
1. Recording: Live Online Session 01 (January 13)
1. PG I - SESSION 4 "Psychological Gesture / Tempo"
2. PG I - SESSION 5 "Archetypal Gesture / Qualities"
3. PG I - SESSION 6 "Objective / Intention and Action"
4. PG II / - SESSION 1 "Gesture & Character"
1. I DON’T LIKE IT, I LOVE IT! – “Expanding / Contracting”
2. WHO ATE THE LAST COOKIE? – “Ideal Center”
3. IS THERE SOMETHING STRANGE GOING ON? – “Atmosphere”
4. ARE YOU FOLLOWING ME? – “Archetypes”
5. INTERLUDE – “Actor & Audience”
6. MY FRIENDS HATED IT – “Radiating & Receiving”
1. "QUALITIES ATMOSPHERE"
2. "FOUR BROTHERS"
3. "IMAGINATION | SPACE"
4. "IMAGINATION | SUSTAINING"
5. "IMAGINATION | CENTERS"
1. MOVING SPACE
2. HIDDEN PURPOSE
3. LANGUAGE OF COLOR
4. DANCE OF SILENCE
5. FEELING THE SOUND
6. BODY AS FIST
1. Joanna Merlin - A Throw
2. Joanna Merlin - What is a Psychological Gesture?
1. Upload Tutorial (replay)
2. Upload Link / Your Material
1. Live Online - with Ted, Fern & Ragnar: "Check-In, Questions & Working with Material"
1. Recording: Live Online Session 02 (January 20)
1. PG II / - SESSION 2 "Archetypal Gesture & Text"
2. PG II / - SESSION 3 "Intention & Objectives"
3. PG II / - SESSION 4 "Gesture, Quality & Text"
4. PG II / - SESSION 5 "Super-Objective & Character"
1. EVER TALKING TO YOURSELF? – “Character”
2. WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME LIKE THIS? – “Psychological Gesture”
3. GOING PLACES – “Imaginary Centers”
4. THE OTHER OLYMPICS – “Qualities of Movement”
5. WATCH ME ACT! – “Imaginary Body”
6. WHO’S TALKING WHEN NOBODY IS TALKING?– “The Pause”
7. YOU ARE NEVER ALONE – “Tempo”
8. SHOWING UP – “Radiating”
1. "IMAGINARY BODY"
2. "ATMOSPHERE | SOUND"
3. "PSYCHOLOGICAL GESTURE"
1. IMAGINATION HOUSE
2. FOLLOWING CONFLICT
3. IMAGINARY EVENT
4. THE WILL OF OBJECTS
5. OPPOSING POWERS
6. THE UNKNOWN
1. Joanna Merlin - Archetypal Gesture
2. Joanna Merlin - sharing words by Michael Chekhov
1. Upload Tutorial (replay)
2. Upload Link / Your Material
1. Live Online - with Ted, Fern & Ragnar: "Working with Material, Sharing & Good-Bye"
1. Recording: Live Online Session 03 (January 27)

About this course

22 hours of video
10 hours of audio
+ 3 live online sessions

With purely intellectual means we will not find the way...

"We see numerous forms around us - as with this table, which is absolutely immovable. But, at the moment when we try to apply our artistic abilities, this same table, being immovable begins to move.

What does this mean? It means a continuous down movement to the center of the earth, which it cannot reach, because there are so many obstacles. If we lift the table and then drop it, we will see the tremendous activity which lives in the table. We only approach the table from the standpoint of usage, but when we approach it as artists, it is like dynamite.

When we try to get this impression from all things we call immovable and dead, we will get this feeling of what kind of movements are there; we will get the psychological gesture. This is the psychological gesture, which is actually rhythm and flow."

(Michael Chekhov on February 21, 1938 - recorded in shorthand by Deidre Hurst DuPrey)

Please note that not all three faculty may be present at all live online sessions.