January Saturday Seminar: Rasa Boxes with Gerilyn Brault
Join us for our monthly seminars, which explore topics beyond the techniques we offer to ensure our actors are well-rounded.
When:
Saturday January 25th, 2025
10am-1pm
Where:
The Actor's Place
2525 Camino del Rio South Suite 160
San Diego, CA 92108
About Rasa Boxes:
Devised in the 1980s and 90s by Richard Schechner, rasaboxes offers performers a concrete physical tool to access, express, and manage their feelings/emotions within the context of performance. Useful as performer training, rasaboxes also has many other applications in various fields including (but not limited to) therapy, business, and education. Rasaboxes is a fully embodied and individual means to express these eight key emotions separately and in combination through direct physical practice. Rasaboxes trains participants to work holistically: the body/mind/emotions are treated as a single system. In practice, rasaboxes produces performances that are visceral and useful across a wide range of contexts: from subtle film acting to bold commedia dell’ arte, from naturalistic theatre to pure dance, music, and movement. Rasaboxes integrates rather than separates acting, movement, and voice. Rasaboxes engages the whole performer in a single, powerful, and learnable approach.
About the Instructor:
Gerilyn Brault has a MFA in Acting from Purdue University and a BA in Musical Theatre from California State University, Chico. She grew up in San Diego and is a professional actor and director in the area and an adjunct faculty member at MiraCosta College. She is a Meisner trained actor with a passion for vocal work. She discovered Rasabox work in graduate school and has created an introductory workshop specifically tailored for Chekov and Meisner students to use the work as another access point in their studies.