The Golden Box: Two Day Technique Analysis with Michelle Danner
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The Golden Box: Two Day Technique Analysis with Michelle Danner
Discover the answers to the following questions: Why are some choices more powerful than others? How does one deliver a raw unforgettable performance? What specific tools can be applied to film, television, and stage work? How does one develop a personal story
from scratch?
LEARN THE BEST ACTING TECHNIQUES FOR FILM ACTING & AUDITIONING.
The Golden Box will teach you how to get out of your head, follow your impulses, and begin to live completely in the moment. By finding your own unique emotional triggers, you will learn to access your full range of feelings and emotions at a moment’s
notice.
Learn how to create vivid, fleshed out, and interesting characters through an intense and emotional workshop with lectures and technique exercises. Michelle teaches a technique that is effective for actors of various skill levels. Actors around the world
have found success studying with Michelle because she takes the emphasis off the dogmatic method and helps you discover your own creativity.
The class focuses on answering the following questions:
-Why are some choices more powerful than others?
-How does one deliver a raw unforgettable performance?
-What specific tools can be applied to film, television, and stage work?
-How does one develop a personal story from scratch and discover material for a one-woman/man show, screenplay, short or novel?
Outline
Discover the answers to the following questions: Why are some choices more powerful than others? How does one deliver a raw unforgettable performance? What specific tools can be applied to film, television, and stage work? How does one develop a personal
story from scratch?
LEARN THE BEST ACTING TECHNIQUES FOR FILM ACTING & AUDITIONING.
The Golden Box will teach you how to get out of your head, follow your impulses, and begin to live completely in the moment. By finding your own unique emotional triggers, you will learn to access your full range of feelings and emotions at a moment’s notice.
Learn how to create vivid, fleshed out, and interesting characters through an intense and emotional workshop with lectures and technique exercises. Michelle teaches a technique that is effective for actors of various skill levels. Actors around the world have
found success studying with Michelle because she takes the emphasis off the dogmatic method and helps you discover your own creativity.
The class focuses on answering the following questions:
-Why are some choices more powerful than others?
-How does one deliver a raw unforgettable performance?
-What specific tools can be applied to film, television, and stage work?
-How does one develop a personal story from scratch and discover material for a one-woman/man show, screenplay, short or novel?
Speaker/s
Michelle has taught acting for the last 29 years and has worked with many A-List Actors privately and on set including: Chris Rock, Gerard Butler, Seth MacFarlane, Melanie Brown, Jamie Lynn Sigler, Penelope Cruz, Verne Troyer, Grant Bowler, Kate Del Castillo, Michael Pena, Isla Fisher, Common, Salma Hayek, Chris Martin, Brian McKnight, James Franco, Marcia Cross, Christian Slater, Catherine Bell, Zooey Deschanel, Gabrielle Union, Justin Chatwin, Jennifer Coolidge,Justine Wadell, Rob Estes, Rick Fox, Henry Cavill and Michelle Rodriguez and many others.
Voted favorite acting coach by Backstage readers, teaching remains a passion. She was brought in for her expert coaching on the WB show The Starlet and was featured with Andy Richter on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.
Michelle trained extensively in Paris and New York with Stella Adler and Uta Hagen. She was the Managing Director of the Larry Moss Studio since its inception in Los Angeles for 20 years.
She is the Founding Director of Edgemar Center for the Arts and raised $1.3 million to construct the two theaters and the art gallery at the Center. At the opening ceremony, Steven Spielberg commented, "Here we have a venue that can turn out some extremely experienced, daring and resourceful artists." She is currently serving as Artistic Director and teaches ongoing classes at the Michelle Danner Studio, housed at Edgemar.
Her seminars are taught internationally in South America, Europe, Toronto, Vancouver, Dubai, New York, Sydney and Australia. She has taught in several cities including: Johannesburg, Cape Town, Istanbul, Paris, and Moscow.
Michelle has directed and acted in over thirty plays and musicals in New York and Los Angeles. Her favorite acting credits include Tennessee William's The Rose Tattoo, which garnered LA Weekly critic's pick and five Dramalogue awards including best actress; House of Yes, Bright Ideas, Ibsen's Ghosts the world premiere of One White Crow.
Her highlights at Edgemar have been pioneering new works that include The Night of the Black Cat, a world premiere and winner of the 2005 Best Musical of the Year at the Los Angeles Music Awards. She directed the world premiere of Mental the Musical, winner of several 17th Annual TicketHolder awards for acting and musical score. She wrote and directed the world premiere of You're on the Air, an improv based comedy which is in development to become a movie. She directed the west coast premiere of Hello Herman by John Buffalo Mailer and co-directed Jane Fonda in the Court of Public Opinion starring Anne Archer.
Michelle also produced and acted in the award-winning short film Dos Corazones, which premiered at the Nashville Film Festival and went on to win Best Cinematography & Audience Favorite at the Malibu Film Festival.
In 2006, she made her feature film directing debut HOW TO GO OUT ON A DATE IN QUEENS which was nominated and won four L.A. Film Awards including Best Director. It starred Jason Alexander, Esai Morales, Ron Perlman, Kimberly Williams, Rob Estes and Alison Eastwood. Her production company, All in Films, has several projects in the works including 2 comedies: STARSTRUCK and THE ITALIANS.
In April 2011, she completed HELLO HERMAN starring Norman Reedus (AMC's The Walking Dead), Martha Higareda, and Garrett Backstrom. The film premiered at the Hollywood Film Festival to a sold out audience and had its international premiere at the Monaco Charity Film Festival where it won the award for social relevance. It opened nationwide in theaters in June 2013 and was distributed by Warner Brothers.
THE BANDIT HOUND is Michelle Danner's heartwarming Family movie about a young boy that rescues a dog without realizing that it was trained to steal.
Michelle's recent film BAD IMPULSE, an intense Horror-Thriller was released in December 2020 and is available on all Platforms, starring Sonya Walger, Grant Bowler, Paul Sorvino, James Landry Hebert, Stephany Cayo, Cavid Coussins and Dan Lauria.
Her last film THE RUNNER, a suspense-thriller, is winning awards on the Festival circuit starring Edouard Philipponnat, Cameron Douglas, Elisabeth Rohm, Kerri Medders, Eric Balfour, Jessica Amlee and Nadji Jeter.
She is putting the finishing touches on her acting book, The Golden Box, which will be released in the fall of 2021.
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The Michelle Danner Acting Studio’s philosophy is that artists can draw upon all different acting techniques and form an individual toolbox, their own Golden Box. We will help you to develop your own “Golden Box” of techniques and tools that you can use when approaching a role or a scene, whether it be for film, television, or theater. The Acting School’s acting techniques are based on Meisner, Strasberg, Adler, Hagen, Chekhov, & the Stanislavsky Technique.
Michelle Danner is an international film director & acting coach. Her student list include James Franco, Seth MacFarlane, Salma Hayek, Henry Cavill, Zooey Deschanel, Gerard Butler, Chris Rock, Chris Martin, Penelope Cruz, Michael Pena, Michelle Rodriguez, Kate Del Castillo and many others.
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