Workshops

Workshops

Train to go beyond simply being an actor and use your skills to create original performances. Discover ways to get unstuck, take risks and collaborate with fellow performers, directors, and artists.     Each session will focus on different techniques for creating ravishing, original performances. Sessions will include physical approaches to creation, writing, improvisation, compositions and object theatre. Our training teaches the performer to use Veiwpoints, Composition, and Kinesthetic Response to create exciting, beautiful images on stage and collaborate Out of Hand Style to make your acting, directing and creations rise to a new level.

Our Philosophy

• Work fast and train hard.
• Develop and maintain a strong community of collaborators.
• Be profound and silly.
• Make art together to foster deep awareness and mutual understanding.
• Combine freedom and constraint, technique and imagination.

Some influences

Clown, Suzuki, Viewpoints,Witness Relocation, Crossfit, MMA, Yoga, Love

What we offer

Out of Hand is available for residencies in Universities and High Schools. Contact us for specialty workshops, new show development, stage direction and performance coaching.

Past workshops  

• University of Illinois
• Spelman College
• Emory University
• Georgia Shakespeare
• Actor’s Express
• Absolute…STEP – 7 Stages
• Kennesaw State University
• Georgia College and State University
• Roswell High School
• East Paulding High School
• Marietta High School
• Higher Ground Elite Softball Camp
• Summer Boot Camp – Emory University
• Youth Creates – 7 Stages
• Winter Boot Camp – Emory University
• Northsprings Magnet Arts High School

Coaching

Out of Hand Company members are available for private coaching sessions.  If you are preparing audition monologues, scenes or need help preparing for a big role, we would love to help.  Out of Hand’s approach to performance also works wonders if you are in the corporate world and preparing for a presentation, on camera interview or just want to communicate your ideas in more creative ways.

Out of Hand company members are experienced stage, camera and voice actors with International, National and Regional Stage credits as well as National Televisions Series, Feature Film and Independent Film success.  They teach at Emory University, Kennesaw State University, Oglethorpe University and have held workshops, residencies and private sessions all over the country.

Contact us with your particular needs and we will connect you with the right coach.

Residencies

The Out of Hand technique for ensemble created theatre works.  Through rigorous training, research and practice we have developed a teachable method for collaborative theatre making.  Our most successful collaboration happen in Universities, Colleges and High Schools across the country.

A team of Out of Hand Company members combines with a team of students artists.  Together, we devise a new work using Out of Hand’s techniques.  In the process, the students learn the method and receive training in Viewpoints, Suzuki, Clown, Writing and a myriad of other techniques.  At the end of the residency, there is a presentation of the new piece in process.

Residencies can be tailored to available funds and range from long term, full fledged productions to long weekend sessions.

Past Residencies

• NASA/National Science Foundation Center for Chemical Evolution
• Yerkes Living Links Research Center
• University of Illinois
• Emory University
• East Paulding High School

Science and Art Workshops

Through residencies at the Center for Chemical Evolution and the Center for Science and Society at Emory University, Out of Hand has created a series of workshops for Scientists, science students and science teachers to learn more creative and effective ways to communicate their research.  Using Out of Hand’s techniques for creating original performances, we explore the places where science and art converge.

Show Development

Out of Hand has been making new theatrical works for 10 years and teaching our methods for nearly as long.  The process of collaborative theatre making can be simultaneously one of the most rewarding and one of the most frustrating experiences for students and artists.  Our techniques and experience can guide you towards the rewarding side and make an unmatchable learning experience for theatre students at your University, College or High School.