The training
Copenhagen Acting School trains actors in 3 years.
Becoming an actor requires extensive work with one's body, voice and mind to recognize, explore and optimize all aspects of an individual's acting potential and expression. Students at this acting school are also taught film and TV production, stage combat, voice awareness, aesthetic language and text work by professional teachers with industry experience.
Throughout the actor training program, methods and tools are developed to create characters, actions and situations as applicable artistic solutions. The individual student is trained to make his or her maximum contribution to the artistic working community, whether in the meeting with a live audience or through electronic media.
1 year acting program for international students
Copenhagen Acting School's International program runs for 32 weeks from early September to the end of May. The program runs alongside our national program. The class will meet 3 times a week, one day with classes in the day time and two days with classes late afternoons/evenings. The International Acting Program is structured as an intensive ongoing program with two longer vacation breaks to accommodate the potential needs to make extended travels arrangements. These vacation breaks are scheduled around Christmas and Easter.
As the only school in the world, live-dubbing is a regular part of the training. At the annual Buster Film Festival, the 3rd year team live-dubs foreign films for a paying audience
The graduation performance is presented at a professional Copenhagen theater. For many years, Teater Zeppelin has hosted and premiered during the CPH Stage theater festival.
Teaching
Copenhagen Acting School's acting education is divided into 4 main areas. Each year starts in August and ends in June. The areas of acting education must all be connected in the final result.
SHOOTING TECHNOLOGY
To be present with yourself; to listen; to see; to see; to feel; to act spontaneously; to react genuinely; to make your feelings available; to know your plot; to explore the relationship; to prepare a preparation; to understand a situation; to manage a will. Performing Arts.
FYSIODRAMA
Get to know your body, get anchored in it, understand the language of the body; get to know your energy as an actor, find your strength, your expression; explore the inexhaustible expressive potential of the body, make the body plastic for the mind; learn characterization with your body, narrate with your physique, learn skills with your body, learn stage-fighting, learn dance, acrobatics or juggling or something else.
VOICE TRAINING
Actor's training also includes exploring and training of the voice and exploring its limits. The voice as an extension of the body. Using the voice dramatically in space and in front of camera and microphone. Choir, tonality and rhythm. Practicing aesthetic tools for handling lines. Speaking naturally.
SCRIPT READING
Scripts are written to be played - not read. But in order to play them, you need to be able to read them and translate your reading into how it should be played.
In script reading, we dive into narrative in terms of plot structure and the human will, drives and needs to understand and apply the dramatic engines.
ACTOR TRAINING AT COPENHAGEN ACTING INCLUDES
Year 1 - Action, situation & presence
- Acting techniques and text work
- Physiodrama
- Voice awareness & training
- Piece reading
- Morning workout
- Diction and language processing
- Stagefight
- American guest lecturer
- Final viewing of scenes
Year 2 - Character and genre
- Acting techniques, text work and genre courses
- Casting course
- Physiodrama
- Voice awareness and aesthetic language use
- Advanced piece reading
- American guest lecturer
- Physical solo course
- Stagefight
- Morning workout
- Individual voice training
- Final performance
3rd year - Production & Internship
- Film/TV production
- Acting technique
- Acting internship
- Casting course
- Mid-term performance
- Study tour
- American guest lecturers
- Solo performances and films
- Morning workout
- Artistic entrepreneurship
- Voice acting and live dubbing
- The graduation performance is presented at a professional theater during CPH STAGE
1 year International Acting Program
- Meisner Technique
- Voice and speech
- Body awareness
- Body work
- Stagefight
- Scene studies (Classical)
- Scene studies (Modern)
- Acting for camera
- Classical monologues
- Warm up
- Entrepreneur
- Industry Knowledge
- Guest teachers
Meisner technique
Copenhagen Acting School's actor training is based on the American Meisner technique. A method that gives you the toolbox to always deliver quality and authentic presence.
As the only acting school in Europe, Copenhagen Acting School is dedicated to American acting technique and especially Sanford Meisner's method. The school offers training with the Meisner technique as an overarching frame of reference.
But what makes the Meisner technique so interesting?
Meisner asked himself the question: How do you get the actor to stop thinking and pretending and instead be spontaneous and real? The answer is: by repeating, the actor stops thinking, and by trusting his impulses, he stops illustrating. But act genuinely in the moment. With this in mind, Meisner developed his now famous repetition technique (here called the Meisner Technique).
Repetition has since become the signature of Meisner's method, but it is only the beginning and far from the only thing the technique has to offer. We offer you a journey and an adventure where you develop and grow as an actor, a human being and an artist of international caliber.
Copenhagen Acting School is ready to train you as an actor. Are you ready?
After the graduation performance has premiered at CPH Stage theater festival, it will tour the country to several of the country's prominent stages such as Momentum, Katapult and Teater Nordkraft.
"Learn to act truthfully in imaginary circumstances"
Meisner summarized his idea of good acting in the phrase: "to act truthfully under imaginary circumstances". And while there are very different opinions on what methods are needed to achieve great acting, most people agree with Meisner's definition.
We believe it's the foundation of your journey as an actor.
The practical
Copenhagen Acting School is a private acting school that does not receive any public funding. Teaching and operations are therefore entirely student-funded.
Opportunities for work during and after training
There are plenty of opportunities to take roles and other work during your training as an actor at Copenhagen Acting School. We even help you get exposure to potential roles.
Your new creative home in the heart of Vesterbro
Copenhagen Acting School is centrally located in Vesterbro in one of Copenhagen's creative meccas.
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You'll be trained to be more than an actor.
You'll get an artistic education.
You'll learn to be a team player.
And you'll learn how to navigate the TV and theater industry.
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We have ongoing entrance exams. When the team is full, it's full.
Become part of a strong actor network.
At Copenhagen Acting School, we don't just train you to be an actor. We also help you get started on your acting career. We have collaborations with several casting agencies and prominent production companies who find their new talents with us.
At the same time, we educate and train you to be your own creator of creativity and launch initiatives that can promote you, give publicity and at the same time develop your talent.