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Open Tier Do you lament that you haven’t any idea what to do with your hands, or are you stuck using the same physical actions and habits on repeat? In this class, you’ll significantly widen your nonverbal gestural vocabulary, and learn to embrace performance moments with and without dialogue. Week 1: "A gesture is worth a thousand words" Exploring the five classifications of gestures - Emblems, Illustrators, Adaptors, Regulators, and Affect displays. Week 2: “Head to toe” Exploring possible meanings of gestures from every zone of the body. Week 3: “Inside-out, outside-in” Exploring expressive gestures, shape, and archetypal gestures. Week 4: “Putting it together” Combine everything together with playful improvisations and skill drills on camera. Our goal is to create clear, specific, repeatable, and reliable communication for the camera and for everyday life. Come play! *Get $25 off Matthew's February course, Touching Moments, if you purchase together! ----- Who is Matthew Ellenwood? Matthew Ellenwood (they/them) is a performing arts educator and owner of Ellenwood Studios; founded in Chicago in 1995 to train multidisciplinary performers in voice, acting, emotional regulation (EmoVerity), and artistic collaboration for professional careers onstage and onscreen. Matthew has presented voice, acting, and emotion performance pedagogy workshops worldwide including professional conferences for NATS, VASTA, PAVA, and the Voice Study Centre U.K. They are also a co-founder and the Artistic Director of Terra Mysterium, a performance troupe focused on devising and producing original pieces of theatre and film. They hold a Bachelor of Music degree from Illinois Wesleyan University and a Masters of Music degree in vocal performance and pedagogy from Northwestern University. Certifications include: Estill Master Trainer (EMT) through Estill Voice International (EVI), Alba Method, Associate Teacher through the Alba Method Association (AMA), Michael Chekhov Acting Technique teacher’s certificate through Michael Chekhov Association International (MICHA). Matthew also has training in Knight-Thompson Speechwork. Check out more of their work at https://www.matthewellenwood.com