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Five Guiding Principles- July 2023

CHEKHOV'S FIVE GUIDING PRINCIPLES with Jessica Cerullo, Sinéad Rushe, and Fern Sloan
July 22, 23, 29, and 30 (two consecutive weekends)
10am-12:30pm edt
Cost $400; if you have taken this workshop before, you may retake it for $150.
Michael Chekhov’s technique is an imaginative approach to experiencing the truth of the moment. In On Theatre and the Art of Acting, a series of lectures given to a group of professional actors in 1955, Chekhov speaks of Five Guiding Principles.
This online workshop, held over four days, will explore those principles using recordings of the lectures, practical application, and discussion. You must be a MICHA member to take this course.

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$150 – $400

Syllabus Clinic

Are you working (or avoiding working) on a syllabus that includes Chekhov technique?

Are you finding yourself with too many possibilities, or not enough?

Are you wondering how to begin?

Are you questioning your own intuition?

Would you like some help?

Would you like to be in a zoom room with colleagues asking the same or similar questions?

Join Jessica Cerullo, Connie Rotunda, and a community of educators in a space for active creation and exchange. In this hands-on workshop, participants will

  • meet and engage shared prompts to inspire independent work
  • collaborate with colleagues preparing similar class structure
  • share resources and investigate questions with Connie, Jessica, and the group

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$30

MICHA Members Meeting October 2023

GETTING READY FOR MICHA'S 25th YEAR

Artistic Director Jessica Cerullo shares MICHA's plans for 2024. Plus - Jessica will talk with Chekhov scholar Lenka Pilchikova about Chekhov's primary source material. We'll parse the differences between the various editions of "To the Actor" and "On the Technique of Acting" and we will hear some stories from our members about ways they engage these, and other, published works.

MICHA's member zoom meetings are open to all current members. Each meeting includes a short psychophysical exploration, a conversation with a Chekhov practitioner, dialogue, and a time for announcements from the community.

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MICHA Mondays January 2024

OPENING TO THE IMAGINATION with Hugh O'Gorman
MICHA Mondays are 60-minute virtual sessions, offered monthly January through June, featuring artists from the global Chekhov community in short practice-based workshops that offer our members an opportunity to connect with the technique and with one another.
This MICHA Monday session will be available to all 2024 members.

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Free

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Virtual Teacher Training Year 2: Guiding Others in the Technique

Join us for a 10 week workshop focused on the Guiding Others in the Chekhov Technique, led by MICHA faculty members Marjo-Riikka Mäkelä, John McManus, and Suzana Nikolić. This virtual Teacher Training Year 2 workshop builds upon the work done in Year 1, and will count toward MICHA's Certificate of Completion.  MICHA's virtual Teacher Training program launched in spring of 2023. Members of the 2023 cohort, along with those who previously took Teacher Training 1 or those who apply below, will continue their training with Year Two in 2024.

2023 cohort members, and those who have taken MICHA's Teacher Training in the past, please register below.

Those wishing to apply to join this cohort without meeting the above requirements, please apply to join the cohort below.

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$875

MICHA Community Meeting February 2024

Join us for MICHA's first member meeting of 2024. We'll share updates and a conversation about Making Art in New Lands: featuring Ukrainian playwright and director, Sasha Denisova, who will discuss her work in response to the Russian invasion with Anne Gottlieb and Jessica Cerullo.

MICHA's Community Meetings are open to all. Each meeting includes a short psychophysical exploration, a conversation with a Chekhov practitioner, dialogue, and a time for announcements from the community.

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Free

MICHA Mondays February 2024

Ease and Creative Individuality: Inviting Surprise in our Work
with Gretchen Egolf

MICHA Mondays are 60-minute virtual sessions, offered monthly January through June, featuring artists from the global Chekhov community in short practice-based workshops that offer our members an opportunity to connect with the technique and with one another.

This MICHA Monday session will be available to all 2024 Members.

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Free

MICHA Mondays April 2024

Presented by MICHA's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council, this month's offering will be led by actor, playwright, and educator Siobhan Brown. MICHA Mondays are 60-minute virtual sessions, offered monthly January through June, featuring artists from the global Chekhov community in short practice-based workshops that offer our members an opportunity to connect with the technique and with one another.
This MICHA Monday session will be available to all 2024 Members.

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Free

An Evening with Phelim McDermott

ART/NY Spaces@520 - Studio E 520 Eighth Avenue, 3rd Floor (Between 36 & 37 sts.), New York, NY, United States

Olivier Award-winning director Phelim McDermott talks about ensemble and how he incorporates Michael Chekhov’s Technique into the staging of his productions. Join Phelim in an intimate studio setting with MICHA’s Artistic Director, Jessica Cerullo, as they speak about vulnerability in the rehearsal room and the qualities of movement on stage. You’ll learn about all things Improbable, Phelim's upcoming production of The Hours at the Metropolitan Opera, and his award winning production of My Neighbour Totoro, as well as observe him in collaboration with actors from the MICHA community.

Tickets:
$25 MICHA Members
$50 Non-Members

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$25 – $50

Floating, Falling, and Balancing

ART/NY Spaces@520 - Studio E 520 Eighth Avenue, 3rd Floor (Between 36 & 37 sts.), New York, NY, United States

Dawn Arnold will lead this practice-based workshop on Chekhov's Three Sister Sensations.

Member rate: $50

Non-member rate: $60

A discount is applied if taken alongside The Actor Imagines With Their Body on April 27th.
This workshop is open to all; in addition it serves as a makeup class for Teacher Training Year 1.

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$50 – $60

Conversation with Author David Zinder

ART/NY Spaces@520 - Studio E 520 Eighth Avenue, 3rd Floor (Between 36 & 37 sts.), New York, NY, United States

Israeli-born actor, teacher, director and author David Zinder with speak with Jessica Cerullo and answer questions about his new book: Dreamwork, A Training For Directors. A graduate of Manchester University (UK) and a professional actor in Israel (1966-71), with a PhD (summa cum laude) in theatre from the University of California at Berkeley (1976), David taught acting and directing at the Theatre Arts Department of Tel Aviv University, serving for many years as Head of Acting and Directing and Artistic Director of the University Theatre.

David is a Master Teacher of the Michael Chekhov Technique, a founding member of MICHA.

Membership not required. Free and open to all.

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