I AM WHAT I AM Actors Workshop

Unleash the power of your bodily expression as an essential tool in character building and stage movement. This workshop offers an immersive approach to physical theater, inspiring total commitment from the performer-creator, balancing between surrender and childlike play. The focus will be on two areas; the first will focus on exploring the way we express ourselves through gesture and body movement and becoming aware of everything that influences our performance as a scenic sign: planes, directions, movement qualities, voice, viewpoints, emotional connections, volume, and more. The second part will concentrate on uncensored creation, striving to incorporate all aspects of ourselves as performers into their selected piece and its message.

Together we'll cover:

• Defending your unique identity as a performer
• Embrace the strength of imperfection.
• Transcending from text to body.
• Discover your poetic universe and apply it to physical expression.
• Using materials in your bodily expressiveness.
• How to use the body as a massive creation weapon.
• The body as an act of love.

TUITION: $100 per person, includes three Monday evening sessions:
July 14, 6:30pm-9:00pm
July 21, 6:30pm-9:00pm
July 28, 6:30pm-9:00pm

Register for the Workshop Here

INTENDED FOR: Actors and actresses, enthusiasts, dancers, students of Dramatic Arts and Dance, and anyone interested in discovering their inner performer aged 18 or older.

WHAT TO BRING: Comfy clothes and a memorized theatrical monologue, poem, or text that you love.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Fernando Oyagüez is an actor and creator born in Spain. He studied at the Superior School of Dramatic Art of Castilla and León, and later completed his training at the New York Film Academy, learning from masters like Leticia Santafé (Linklater method), Marta Carrasco (Spanish National Dance Award), and Declan Donnellan, among others. He began his career as a child actor and has appeared in television series such as Queens: Virgin and Martyr and 45 Revoluciones, and in films like El comensal, in which he played a leading role, and Pídeme lo que quieras, which will have its international premiere next November. He has also performed in numerous theater productions such as The Red Room, Much Ado About Nothing, The Ugly One, and more. As a creator, he focuses on revitalizing cultural spaces by launching artistic projects that breathe new life into places not originally intended for the performing arts. He is also working on his first feature film, Protecto, which will be a Spanish-American co-production.