Acting

Acting is my favourite subject to teach. I myself only completed the Solo Acting LAMDA examination syllabus up to grade 8. The stream is incredibly flexible, and allows students to acquire a widest range of transferrable skills (of the streams offered by LAMDA). I myself was able to build on the performance skills I learned through my completion of the LAMDA acting syllabus, to teach up to grade 8 in both public speaking and verse and prose.

We spend weeks to months working on a piece. This allows me to build key transferrable skills, for instance research, embodiment, vocal, physical and facial expression. Based on the LAMDA framework, I teach students to analyse and interpret play scripts with confidence. The analytical and research based work enables students to consider a character’s multiple facets of existence such as how their upbringing may shape their behaviour to how the politics of the time impact their lives and so on.  

Students who study acting are more confident in their communication skills in their daily lives, this includes spoken and written communication. The ‘bare bones’ nature of solo acting challenges students to build stage presence and learn how to tell complex stories with less. Acting lessons challenge students to connect emotionally with characters, to develop keys skills in empathy.

Relevant works

Revolutionary Love 

A deconstructed one person dance drama. Developed and performed at Paalam, a Gardiners of Stories event in association with the University of Toronto.

This is my own personal artistic project that I intend to keep developing. In it’s initial conception, I saw it as a 3 person performance, and a couple of my non-dancer friends helped out. As I am back in graduate school, the project is currently on pause, but I am hoping to keep working on it in the future.