LOS ANGELES

Experience how PEM can revolutionize your acting craft and learn our hallmark method for physical access to authentic emotion.  

Led by PEM Master Instructor Sarah Victoria, over this two-day intensive workshop, you will be taught how to physically access all six key emotions within PEM: Aggression, Happiness, Grief, Lust, Fear and Revulsion. 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.  

Additionally, you will also learn to organically transition through the emotions, create more complex emotions by combining the 6 basic ones, and how to apply authentic emotion into text to open up a whole new world of creative possibilities. 

Beyond the stage and screen, our holistic approach helps to reframe your understanding of emotions to not only refine your artistic skills, but also to improve your overall wellbeing. 

• Learn our hallmark method for physical access to authentic emotion 
• Tools and exercises to open up the body and expand emotional range 
• Move past personal limitations and restrictions that are inhibiting your full potential 
• Access subtle emotional expressions for close-ups and film work 
• Access big emotional expression for theatre and intense film scenes  
• Combine the 6 basics emotions to create more complex emotions (e.g. jealousy, guilt, embarrassment) 
• Learn to artfully transition through emotions organically to create depth, intrigue and nuance 
• Apply emotion into authentic text work 
• Manage audition nerves and stage-fright
• Reframe your understanding of what emotions are, and how this can help your profession 
• Develop your emotional intelligence and wellbeing 

Sarah Victoria is an actress, PEM Master Instructor and Director of Kalliso and PEM International. She has been a certified PEM Instructor since 2004 and trained directly with Stephan Perdekamp. She wrote her master’s thesis about PEM in 2004 and has been teaching for over 19 years. Sarah is on the board of directors of the PEM Center Hamburg as well as an actor in the PEM Ensemble Hamburg and the PEM International Ensemble.

Sarah has led PEM workshops all over the globe, as well as teaching masterclasses at major drama universities including at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia, at Babes-Bolyai-University in Romania and many more internationally.