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The Lugering Method has a great energy, and is totally involving and integrative. A fresh approach to the development of movement, voice and acting skills, by a master teacher, director and performer. The work is accessible and specific, without being overloaded with technical jargon.
--Joan Melton (Voice Teacher, Writer, Researcher) PhD., ADVS
Joan Melton is author of two books ONE VOICE & SINGING IN MUSICAL THEATRE. Visit her website at www.onevoice.com
Detailed, direct, thorough, inspiring, illuminating, engaging, informative. The balance of technique and then application through improvisation was excellent, and the students came away with a solid introduction to a new style and philosophy
Emma Gersh
Senior Lecture: Drama & Performing Arts
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The Lugering Method offers powerful/practical techniques for integrating movement voice and acting, while it challenges practitioners to focus on their real, live, authentic impulses. I attended Michael’s three-day workshop in Chicago to refresh my teaching practice, and I have since found new and exciting dimensions to my work in class.
Pamela Christian
Associate Professor
Voice an Speech for Performance
University of Texas at Austin
"The specific use of language and phrasing to define the perimeters of physical and vocal choices is invaluable to students and practitioners alike - a comprehensive integrated system."
Kristen Loree
Assistant Professor
"In my practice as an actor and educator, I knew there was a better way to approach the disciplines of voice and movement. So often we shuffle acting students off to separate classes in voice, movement, and acting technique and then expect them to master the integration of these disciplines in production without any guidance. Michael's work effectively addresses this dilemma through a practical training system that fuses all facets of acting into an integrated study. As a result of the workshops I've taken with Michael, I have become more kinesthetically-driven as an actor and have developed the vocabulary to help my students do the same."
Eric Harrell, MFA
Professional Actor (AEA/SAG)
Department Chair
Associate Professor of Acting
Regent University "The Lugering Method is the absolute foundation of my craft as an actor. It is a remarkably practical way of working, and gives you access to the building blocks of both action and character. In no other technique have I encountered such a clear and precise manner of skill building for actors. It is the equivalent of the ballet dancers barre, or the scales of a musician. If you have been looking for an acting technique that you can practice alone and still get better as an actor, then you have been looked for The Lugering Method.”
--Jonathan E. Shultz, Professional Actor (A.E.A.)
"Finally, a method which passionately seeks to put back together the often compartmentalized areas of voice and dance! The Expressive Actor training brings the actor back into the body, and the mover into the voice. The method and its principles are deceptively simple, which produces effective results. Michael's passionate teaching and careful research combine in the classroom to carry the student through the lessons with ease."
Debórah Eliezer,
Education Director,
foolsFURY Theater
www.foolsfury.org
Deanna Anderson – Apprentice
Expressive Actor Teacher Certification Program"Since I came to The Lugering Method workshops with a background in anatomy and physiology for communication, I was impressed with the accuracy of information presented and its congruency with what is currently known about the physical processes of breathing, voicing, and speaking. Too many vocal training techniques rely on metaphors that deny or oppose actual physical processes, and therefore contradict the physical sensations the actor experiences when practicing her craft. In contrast, The Lugering Method promotes embodied physical training from a sound foundation. Further, this method gives the actor a strong working vocabulary to discuss and modify acting choices very specifically in the rehearsal process. I would recommend these workshops to any actor who is serious about authentic embodied expression."
--Amanda Loy-Jung, Certified and Licensed Speech Language Pathologist I was immediately impressed with both the clarity and totality of the Lugering Method and Michael Lugering’s encouragement as a master teacher. Since working with him, I have required The Expressive Actor as the source text for many of my classes. Michael’s description and presentation of the Expressive Continuum provides a wealth of physical choices for any actor. I continually employ these resources into my own training as a professional actor and my teaching.
--Eric Van Barrs, Professional Actor (A.E.A.)
Associate Professor, Kent State University
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Lugering technique is a powerful methodology for the theatre artist in that it builds strong, seamless connections between the body, the voice and the intention of the performer. It is a great flexible resource for any working, teaching or creating performer with tools that can expand, be built upon, or adjusted for any kind of performance."
Kathryn Moller
Professor of Theater
Department Chair
I enjoyed the workshop immeasurably. Michael is a caring and supportive teacher with a wonderful personality. His work is rooted in cultivating an intuitive understanding of our physical mechanism with an eye toward the important link between the body, breath, voice and human feeling. Previously, I had difficult moving and expressing myself physically on stage. The Lugering Method provided me a means of initiating and structuring my body, breath and voice to freely express thought and feeling. I appreciate the work very much.
--Emiko Koizumi
Professional Actress/New York City
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Rob Bartusch, Lisa Ferris & Jack Mikesell, THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED
Director: Michael Lugering
