ONLINE ACTING CLASSES & IN PERSON UTAH HAGEN ACTING CLASS 

• Learn the Uta Hagen acting technique online or in person.
• Uta Hagen’s technique emphasizes realism above all else.
• Substitution or Transference allows the actor to replace their own experiences and emotional recollections with the given circumstances of the scene.
• As a teacher, Uta Hagen helped establish the careers of many famous actors who are still working today.
• The Michelle Danner Acting Studio offers an opportunity to learn this groundbreaking technique and apply it to scene work.
• Uta Hagen pushed her students to “become” the character rather than just pretending to be the part.
• She encouraged deep study of the text while also creating a hybrid of the play’s facts and the actor’s personal experiences to motivate truthful behavior.
• In her early career, she advocated **“substitution”
  
  • Uta Hagen was a highly respected actress and acting teacher.
  • Her two popular books, Respect for the Actor and A Challenge for the Actor, are legendary bibles on the craft.
  • I highly recommend both.
     
     

    These six questions create a terrific tool that any director should introduce to their actors.

     
    Uta Hagen 9 questions
    • WHO AM I?
      • What is my present state of being?
      • How do I perceive myself?
      • What am I wearing?
    • WHAT ARE THE CIRCUMSTANCES?
      • What time is it? (The year, the season, the day? At what time does my selected life begin?)
      • Where am I? (In what city, neighborhood, building, and room do I find myself? Or in what landscape?)
      • What surrounds me? (The immediate landscape? The weather? The condition of the place and the nature of the objects in it?)
      • What are the immediate circumstances? (What has just happened, is happening? What do I expect or plan to happen next and later on?)
    • WHAT ARE MY RELATIONSHIPS?
      • How do I stand in relationship to the circumstances, the place, the objects, and the other people related to my circumstances?
    • WHAT DO I WANT?
      • What is my main objective?
      • What is my immediate need or objective?
    • WHAT IS MY OBSTACLE?
      • What is in the way of what I want?
      • How do I overcome it?
    • WHAT DO I DO TO GET WHAT I WANT?
      • How can I achieve my objective?
      • What’s my behavior?
      • What are my actions?