Beck Academy of Dramatic Art
Beck Academy of Dramatic Art is dedicated to providing excellence in training for actors and performers. The school provides courses, part time and short course, drop in classes, screen acting, actor development classes, scene study and audition workshops. We strive towards excellence. We aim to create tomorrow's most powerful character actors utilising the best tools for delivering our training to students. What sets us apart from other acting schools is our tailored approach to training actors. While we teach in small groups, we tailor our approach in accordance with each student's abilities. We do not believe that one size fits all. Our instructors are trained to identify strengths and weaknesses in the work of students and to develop from thereon an action plan for each student. The action plan is continuously updated and refined during the 2 year course program. Students are taught through BEAT, defined as a holistic approach to teaching acting that aims to disengage the actor’s emotional connection to ‘things’ in their own world thus freeing them up to attach those emotions to ‘things’ in the character’s world. By ‘things’ we mean circumstances, objects, places and people. Fay’s technique allows the actor to access emotions that are intrinsic to them and gives them the tools to apply those emotions to character for the purpose of delivering the story. The technique, while it uses some common exercises in the Meisner Technique, is distinct and foundationally different from it, particularly its understanding of character, emotions, action and purpose. BEAT is a fully developed, dynamic and integrated approach to training actors that feels more like a spiritual awakening rather than a method of acting. BEAT actors are able to ‘enter’ character instinctively. This is the goal of the technique. They are trained to feel, think, move, sound and feel like the character they seek to embody.
