Adult Classes & Workshops

Adult classes are back

Classes offer adults the opportunity to work alongside professional theater artists to explore and develop their skills as artists and creative thinkers. Offerings will include our most popular classes plus training pathways for theater artists looking to pursue a career onstage. We encourage you to check this space often for exciting opportunities.

If you have questions or feedback, drop us a line at classes@guthrietheater.org.

 

March classes

SLAY with Brian Bose
Feel sexy, fierce and powerful while learning fun choreography, grooving to music and dancing your way to empowerment. This class creates an open environment to get your cardio up, move your body and challenge yourself. Strip away fears and perfectionism while learning how to get out of your own way so you have no choice but to slay.

No dance experience necessary. 

Mondays and Wednesdays: March 6, 8, 13, 15, 2022, 27, 29 | 6:30–8:30 p.m.

Guthrie Theater, Classroom 1 & 2

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STAGE COMBAT with Aaron Preusse
In this course, you’ll learn what goes into creating moments of violence on stage and film. From slaps and punches to pushing and choking, you will build foundational knowledge of how to perform basic techniques with safety and believability. We will also explore what the audience perceives versus what the character's intentions and the actor’s reality. This is a movement course open to all experience levels.

No experience necessary; all levels are welcome.

Thursdays: March 9, 16, 23, 30 | 6:30–8:30 p.m.

Guthrie Theater, Classroom 1 & 2

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ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE with Eli Sibley
The Alexander Technique is the “glue” that integrates acting, voice, speech and movement training. At the technique's heart is the conviction that we are perfectly designed to express an impulse with honesty. As a psychophysical tool for body, breath, and imagination, it teaches actors how to release habitual tension and instead bring ease, presence, and choice to performance. In this class, you’ll learn the principles of the technique and the art of self-direction, using warm-up, monologues and partnering work. This class is experiential, asks for curiosity and invites exploration. Beginners are welcome.

This is a hands-on technique class, and students are encouraged to dress for movement (no sleeveless shirts, shorts or jeans), wear layers and bring a yoga mat/towel for floor work.

No experience necessary; all levels are welcome.

Wednesdays: March 8, 15, 22 and 29 | 6:30–8:30 p.m.

Guthrie Theater, Classroom 3

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VOICE & SPEECH with Mira Kehoe (ONLINE)
Develop the skills and confidence to authentically express yourself through personal communication, public speaking opportunities or performance. In this four-week class, students will explore the basic principles of voice and speech, including breath, resonance, range, articulation, projection, phrasing and expression, and release of excessive tension. You’ll engage in assigned readings, experiential exercises and thoughtful discussions, and apply your newly developed skills to material of your choice.

No experience necessary; all levels are welcome.

Tuesdays: March 7, 14, 21, 28 | 6:30–8:30 p.m.

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ACTING THE SONG with Stephen DiMenna
Ready to enhance your audition and performance skills so you can land a role in a musical? In this class, you’ll be guided through the process integrating text, music and story, and how to build an emotional arc for your character. This course is designed to support early career actors and singers in bringing a well-rounded performance to a musical theater song — strengthening both vocal and physical delivery. After four weeks, you will have at least one audition-ready piece in your songbook!

Foundational musical theater experience recommended

Tuesdays: March 7, 14, 21, 28 | 6:30–8:30 p.m.

Guthrie Theater, Classroom 1 & 2

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ACTING with Nathan Keepers
This series approaches acting through physicality and imagination to move beyond thought patterns and unlock infinite possibilities. By releasing expectations of what we “should" do as actors, we access our instincts and innate freedom to play and express. We’ll explore character, presence and story through movement, text and scene work. No previous acting experience necessary. Come ready to play and have fun!

No experience necessary; all levels are welcome.

Mondays: March 6, 13, 20, 27 | 6:30–8:30 p.m.

Guthrie Theater, Classroom 3

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April classes

SLAY with Brian Bose
Feel sexy, fierce and powerful while learning fun choreography, grooving to music and dancing your way to empowerment. This class creates an open environment to get your cardio up, move your body and challenge yourself. Strip away fears and perfectionism while learning how to get out of your own way so you have no choice but to slay.

No dance experience necessary.

Mondays and Wednesdays: April 10, 12, 17, 19, 24, 26, May 1, 3 | 6:30-8:30pm

Guthrie Theater, Classroom 1&2

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CABARET with Martha Eies
Cabaret connects an artist to their own delight and provides a forum for personal expression, playful comedy or social commentary. Over the course of 4 classes, you will develop a persona through song and learn to engage and activate a live audience. Improvisation and listening are at the heart of the workshop, as you learn to trust your impulses in concert with feedback. Expect to be on your feet, taking risks and making discoveries! The final class will culminate with an informal sharing for an invited audience.

No experience necessary. 

Tuesdays: April 11, 18, 25, May 2 | 6:30-8:30pm 

Guthrie Theater, Classroom 1&2

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CULTIVATING ARTISTRY with Lester Mayers
Lester Mayers leads a revolutionary masterclass that empowers you with the tools to activate your artistry and the opportunity to reclaim your story. Through breath and embodiment practice we will explore a range of possibilities for artistic creation. 
 

In this series we will explore:  

Mindfulness  - How to approach a story through fear 

Movement -  How to find dance in the story 

Speech -  How to walk deeper into the words 

Meditation - How to get in and out of character 

All levels of artistic experience are welcome; meeting you where you are on your journey. 

Wednesdays: April 12, 19, 26, May 3 | 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Guthrie Theater, Classroom 3

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VOICE & SPEECH with Mira Kehoe (Hybrid)
This four-week course continues the work explored in Voice and Speech Level One including extensive work with breath, resonance, range, articulation, projection, phrasing and expression, and body-mind exercises. There will be assigned readings, experiential exercises, class discussions, and practical application of skills to material of the student's choice. Students will be expected to set goals for themselves and will be supported in developing a daily practice to improve their skills and expressiveness. A component of this class will be an opportunity to perform or present material of the student’s choice.

Recommended prerequisite: VOICE & SPEECH Level One

Tuesdays: April 11, 18, 25, May 2 | 6:30-8:30pm 

Guthrie Theater, Livingston Conference Room or Zoom

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REAL STORIES FOR THE STAGE with Ron Peluso
Discover the joys and challenges of developing a play, using real stories or historical events. Over the course of 4 weeks, you will write a 5-10-minute play based on an event taken from the news, a book, film or historical narrative; you may draw from your own life experience or the story of a family member or friend. We’ll meet weekly to discuss and workshop each story, reading aloud samples of your work in progress. In our final week, you will reflect on the process and receive feedback from a professional guest playwright.

No experience necessary. 

Tuesdays: April 11, 18, 25, May 2 | 6:30-8:30pm

Guthrie Theater, Classroom 4

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