LABAN/YAT MALMGREN TECHNIQUE MASTERCLASS WITH DANNY BALL
WHAT IS CHARACTER ANALYSIS?
Character Analysis is a melting pot of Laban’s movement theory, Carl Jung’s psychological types and concepts from Stanislavski. The system aims to synthesise thought, action and movement in the holistic creation of a character.
Central to the system are the four Mental Factors and their corresponding Motion Factors of: SENSING ->
WEIGHT, THINKING ->
SPACE, INTUITING ->
TIME and FLOW ->
FEELING
These Mental Factors come together in groups of two to create six Inner Attitudes (character or archetype). They are Adream (Sensing and Feeling), Awake (Thinking and Intuiting), Stable (Sensing and Thinking), Mobile (Feeling and Intuiting), Near (Sensing and Intuiting) and Remote (Feeling and Thinking).
WHY CHARACTER ANALYSIS?
This has been one of the most useful systems I’ve learnt for my work as an actor and I use it constantly. The aim of the system is to create actors with immense range who can play across the full spectrum of humanity. This is most obvious in the actors who are trained in this system: Anthony Hopkins, Tom Hardy, Cate Blanchett, Simon Callow, Michael Fassbender, Helen McCrory, among many others.
Acting Mastery is very proud to host our Laban/Yat Malmgren Technique Masterclass with Danny Ball!
Danny Ball is an actor, playwright and educator. He graduated from NIDA in 2016 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting), and is a proud Italian-Australian with Sicilian and Abruzzese heritage.
Theatre credits include The Glass Menagerie (Ensemble Theatre), Holding the Man (Belvoir St Theatre), Loaded, Troy (Malthouse Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing, The Players Tour (Bell Shakespeare), Darwin’s Reptilla, The Italians (Belvoir 25a), Cleansed (Old Fitz), Mercury Fur, The Serpent’s Teeth (KXT), Blackrock (Seymour Centre), and Love Me (Old 505).
Screen credits include Totally Completely Fine (Stan), A Beginner’s Guide to Grief (SBS), Home & Away, and KICK (SBS).
Danny’s plays include: The Italians (Belvoir 25a) which was filmed by Australian Theatre Live and published by Playlab, Scab (ATYP) published by Playlab and nominated for Best Production for Young People at the 2024 Sydney Theatre Awards and La Malattia, which is currently in development with Brink Productions.
Danny teaches acting across several universities and institutions, as well as through his own coaching business. He was recently the performance dramaturge on Vonne Patiag’s short film, Homo. He was a 2024 recipient of the Gloria Peyton and Gloria Dawson Fellowship which will see him embark on becoming a certified Laban Movement Analyst via the Laban Institute in NYC.
Danny was the recipient of a Greenroom Award for Outstanding Performer for his work on Loaded. In 2024, the Casting Guild of Australia named him one of the year’s Rising Stars, with the potential to break out onto the world stage.
“Having immense range as an actor is only one side of the coin. An equally valuable currency is knowing your own personal baseline, and exploiting that to your advantage. This work gifts you both”
This revolutionary technique combines Laban & Malmgren’s movement theories, Jung’s psychological types, and Stanislavski’s methods, giving you the tools to create characters with extraordinary depth, emotional truth, and dynamic range.
WHAT YOU WILL COVER:
Discuss / explore the Mental Factors of Sensing, Thinking, Intuiting and Feeling, and your personal relationship to them.
Embody the Motion Factors of Weight, Space, Time and Flow in improvisation and with text.
Embody Laban’s Effort Actions.
Discuss the six Inner Attitudes (character types)
Embody two of the most common and important Inner Attitudes of Adream and Near.
Understand your energetic baseline and the current limits of your range.
2 DAY MASTERCLASS
DATE:
14 -15 February 2025
TIME:
10am-5pm (with a lunch break)
WHERE:
Bondi Junction
COST:
$460 +GST
