FREE ACTING CLASS

with Sandra K. Horner

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AND  YOU'RE  INVITED!!

With 27 years of acting experience, and 17 years of teaching and directing experience, LA, MPLS, & NYC acting coach Sandra K. Horner invites you to explore Method-Meisner-Lewis techniques in this FREE 3-hour class. In just 3 hours you'll take away techniques that'll empower your acting now!

GET MORE CONFIDENT!

This FREE CLASS includes an introduction to:
Who was STANISLAVSKI?  Reconnect with the masters, and their teachings.  

MEISNER TECHNIQUE. In this FREE class, your listening and observational skills begin to improve. Meisner technique helps you to express your emotions easily; feel truthful; act from instinct; and understand what it means to be in the "moment." This technique makes you a very believable actor.

LEWIS TECHNIQUE. Get out of your seat and play the Intention Game! This fun exercise helps you to understand a big part of script analysis. Lewis Technique takes the guesswork out of breaking down a script, and puts you in command of any text.

FREE ACTING CLASS HAPPENS:

When:  Monday, February 23, 2009 - 7:00-10:00 PM

 Where:  Hennepin Center for the Arts, (HCA)
528 Hennepin Ave. (@ 6th Street)
Illusion Theatre - 8th Floor
Minneapolis, MN  55403

PARKING:

• Affordable outdoor parking on Marquette between 5th & 4th Streets. Have $2.00-$3.00 ready for box at entrance.  
• City Center is covered parking and affordable.  Enter on 7th Street.  
• Directly across the street from HCA on Hennepin Ave. between 5th & 6th Streets is an indoor heated parking with valet.  
  Not too expensive considering it's heated and someone parks and retrieves your car.  
• Most meters and loading zones are available and free after 6:00 PM. Be sure to read all signs.
  
     
  This FREE CLASS fills up quickly!
  To RSVP-ASAP contact Sandra directly in LA @ 818-997-6740 or freeactingclass@aol.com
  
  
  
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  This FREE class lets you check out Sandra's style of teaching,
  PLUS gives you the opportunity to sign up early and receive a discount for the,
  
  
  METHOD-MEISNER-LEWIS CLASS starting: October 3, 2008.
  
   This Six Month Intensive Meets: one weekend a month (16 hours).
  Friday, 7:00-11:00 PM, Saturday & Sunday, 1:00-7:00 PM  (meal break Sat. & Sun.)
  You also have the opportunity to perform before LA and MPLS Industry Professionals in Wide Variety Theatre.  
  
  Classes Are Held:  Hennepin Center for the Arts, 528 Hennepin Ave., Ste. 300
  Downtown Minneapolis
  
  | Space Is Limited |
  
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  QUOTES:
  
  "Sandra has what I call 'eagle-vision' ... If it weren't for Sandra I would've never been able to do
  "United 93."  She gave me the tools to go to emotional depths I had never gone to before." 
  
  ~Trish Gates, supporting actress, "United 93," TPS Alumni
  
  "I'm so glad I did the Wide Variety Theatre shows!  
  I got agents in both Minneapolis and LA!"  
  ~Jode Keehr, TPS alumni.
  
  "I just got back from the 2007 Minnesota Association of Community Theaters (MACT)
  One-Act Festival where I won an "Excellence in Acting" award....
  I've been performing in the MACT festival for over 10 years now and never won any award before...
  and a few months back I won a Best Actor award for my performance of FAGIN in "Oliver!"...
  I have never won such an acting award in my life and now
  this is the SECOND best acting award I've won since your class
  this last summer... coincidence?  I think not!  
  Thanks for helping make my dreams come true!..."
   ~Matthew Feeney, casting director.  
  Owner of Walden Entertainment. TPS alumni.
  
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  "Sandra's students perform with such honesty.  
  This honesty is not only important to stage, but vital for the camera."
  
  ~Jean Rohn, casting director of ALL MY CHILDREN  
  Owner of JR Casting (MPLS)
  
  
  "I highly recommend Sandra's classes.  
  When I see actors in the show,
  I get a better picture of their range and potential."
  
  ~Barbara Shelton casting director
  Owner of Bab's Casting (MPLS)
  
  
  "Sandra, I thought you were a gem.  Some great talent there.  
  I hope you'll invite me to Wide Variety Theatre again."
  
  ~Iren Koster, SK Films Company (LA)

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About Sandra K. Horner and The Performance Studio . . .

Sandra began her teaching career in New York City. In 1992, she moved to Minnesota and founded The Performance Studio, located in the heart of Minneapolis' (MPLS) downtown theatre district. In 2000, she opened an LA branch of The Performance Studio. As artistic director, she teaches classes based in: Stanislavski Method, Robert Lewis Script Analysis, and Sanford Meisner Technique. She creates an environment that supports artistic growth for both teens and adults. Actors become more confident through practicing these methods. (To her knowledge, Sandra is the only teacher in LA and MPLS teaching Robert Lewis' approach.)

Sandra also hosted many guest instructors at The Performance Studio including: David Lind - Chekhov; Julia Carey - Shakespeare; Eric Holmgren - Actor's Movement; and Saule Ryan - voice, Roy Hart Theatre of France. While in Minnesota, Sandra also taught classes at the colleges of Macalaster and St. Olaf.

Wide Variety Theatre (WVT) is an important part of The Performance Studio. Sandra founded the theatre in Minneapolis. WVT gives her students an avenue to apply the techniques she teaches to a script, and perform it in front of an audience including Industry Professionals. Many actors get representation and work from WVT. Performing in LA and MPLS, Sandra has cast, directed and produced 54 productions of Wide Variety Theatre.

Sandra worked as a stage actress in New York City for 10 years. Her training included: intensive study with former Head of the Yale Drama Department and acting master from The Group Theatre, Robert Lewis; and Meisner Technique with Kathryn Gately. Her many credits include: the world premiere of "Currents Turned Awry," by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, D. L. Coburn; "Hello Bob," by Broadway playwright, Robert Patrick; and "Beiderbecke's Last Drunk," winner of the Samuel French One-Act Festival. As an actress, she has appeared in film, television, and commercials. (Enjoyable moments:  on film, beating up California Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Jingle All The Way." And recently on television, playing the wife of a man who has a hook impaled through his neck in TLC's "Untold Stories of the ER." )

Sandra debuted as a director in New York City, at the Nat Horn Theatre. She has directed over 250 plays in NYC, LA, AND MPLS including: Alan Ball's, "Five Woman Wearing the Same Dress"; "The Owl and the Pussycat," by Bill Manhoff; " Ikee, Ikee, Nye, Nye, Nye," by Lanford Wilson; and "Hidden in this Picture," by Aaron Sorkin.

Sandra is a writer and producer with an MN writing team, H.B. Creations.  She co-created and executive produced an original sketch comedy called "Irelene Television Theatre." This unique idea, along with other television concepts created by H.B. Creations have caught the interest of LA production companies and networks including: ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, Bruckheimer Films, DreamWorks, Weinstein Company, Carsey-Werner, MTV, Imagine Entertainment, Comedy Central, and Bette Midler.

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