Acting Professor Gayle Murphy involved in Emotional Fluency Project. Photo credit: Paul Lampert.
You are cordially invited to attend a workshop presentation of the Emotional Fluency Project (EFP).
UNE 27th @ 7:30 pm
JUNE 28th @ 2:30 pm
Dorothy Somerset Studio
6361 University Boulevard
The presentation is part of a two-year national research project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), to explore the BOS Emotional Effector Patterns effectiveness in providing a support mechanism for the professional contemporary actor in the stimulation and regulation of emotion.
Please RSVP as seating is limited: emotionalfluency@gmail.com
The research is in response to the mounting evidence that actors who access personal experience in the development of a role or in the emotions they experience in performance may suffer psychological consequences and stress that can impact the actor’s emotional well-being. Alternatively, the BOS Emotional Effector Patterns use precise breathing patterns, facial expressions, and muscle activation defined in specific postures, to allow the actor to stimulate and regulate emotion without the use of personal emotional experience. The BOS Method was the result of a long-term research project that began in Chile in the 1970s by psychologist Susana Bloch, neurophysiologist Guy Santibañez, and theatre director Pedro Orthous, who named the procedure the BOS Method (Bloch, Orthous & Santibáñez,) in 1987.
In Vancouver, we are working with four talented actors who, in February, participated in a 30-hour introductory training in the effector patterns followed by a 3-day workshop to apply the patterns in a theatrical context. We reconvened in June for a 3-week rehearsal process to apply the patterns to short scenes which will be performed to an invited audience in an informal setting with minimal production values. Audience members will be invited to fill out an optional short questionnaire with a few questions about the scenes with a rating scale of 1 to 5. Your response will be extremely helpful in assessing the effectiveness of the effector patterns in performance and in planning our next steps.
If you would like a more comprehensive explanation of our research and methodologies please visit our website linked below.
Ines Buchli
Gayle Murphy
Tom Stroud
Website: https://emotionalfluencyproject.com/
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