PEM Intensives
Read about our intensives! Physical access to emotion, transformative character work, connection to the artistic subconscious, & more.
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PEM Intensive 1
Led by Master Instructor
Sarah Victoria
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Assisted by Blake Hackler
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This two-day intensive workshop will teach you our acclaimed method for accessing authentic emotion through the conscious and artistic use of your innate biological emotion system.
Learn to come in and out of intense emotional states quickly, safely and repeatably without needing to refer to traumatic memories or personal story. Our carefully developed, body-focused exercises will serve to open up your instrument and work through personal restrictions that may be limiting your full potential, enabling you to expand your emotional range and performance capability.
PEM Intensive I will cover the foundations of PEM emotion work, teaching you to physically access all six key emotions within PEM: Aggression, Happiness, Grief, Lust, Fear and Revulsion. You will also learn to organically transition through the emotions to open up a whole new world of creative possibilities.
Our holistic approach extends beyond performance techniques, aiming to deepen your emotional understanding and improve your overall wellbeing.
What You’ll Gain
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A proven, physical method for accessing authentic emotions
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Tools and exercises to expand emotional range and release personal limitations
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The ability to deliver both subtle and intense emotion for stage & screen
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A new understanding of emotions and their artistic application
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Greater emotional intelligence, resilience, and wellbeing for life as an actor
Prerequisites: None, however all actors must be approved via a short interview with Master Instructor Sarah Victoria to attend.
PEM Intensive 2
Transformative Character Work
This intensive teaches actors how to transform into another human being on a purely physiological level, and how to safely step back out. Expand your range of character possibilities through accessing the genius of the body, and enrich your emotional palette with an introduction to mixtures of emotion.
PEM Intensive 2 goes beyond just an acting class; this workshop will fundamentally broaden your perspective of the human experience.
What You’ll Learn
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Develop multi-dimensional characters through PEM’s groundbreaking approach
- Discover the genius of the physical consciousness
- Safely come in and out of character
- Create complex human beings with lived experiences stored in their nervous system
Prerequisites: PEM Intensive 1 or equivalent private coaching
PEM Intensive 3
Dive further into PEM principles and apply everything you’ve learnt so far into monologues and scenes.
Take your PEM training to the next level by learning how to give your characters complex layers and history – all through the body. Apply the emotion work and character work you’ve learnt so far into text, and experience how the character can lead the text, rather than the actor.
Bring everything together into scene work, and discover what it’s like to move and be moved on a purely electrical level, creating a performance that is impossible to look away from.
Prerequisites: PEM Intensive 1 & 2 or equivalent private coaching