CLASS PROCEDURES

Preparation
- To remove the limitations of our social state and to achieve, individually and collectively a creative state.
Moving To Words - To achieve interplay in form from a creative state.
Characterization - To achieve characterizations in form, and to test those characterizations through interplay.
Interplay - To achieve interplay through relationships in character, and to improvise incisive dramatic meetings through prepared activities.
Technique - To achieve individually and collectively the physical conditioning, skills and dynamics of American Mime.
Movement - To achieve proficiency in American Mime movement skills through the application of the Elements of Movement.
Controls - To achieve the ability to communicate the principles and specifics of Controls that will produce exactly the same dynamics from each performer in a group.
Dynamics - To achieve proficiency in the creation and performance of contrasts in American Mime.
Pantomime - To achieve the pantomimic skills that create the illusion of reality for a general theatre audience through the American Mime acting process.
Freedom - To produce the empathy that will move a general theatre audience by our vulnerability, freedom, and use of our most personal internal equipment in the performing process.
Playwriting - To achieve the skills of creating and performing American Mime plays by presenting for the teacher's evaluation playwriting assignments under the full limitations of A.M. script material, means and performance.