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    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span
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            Roman",serif">A webinar brought to you by the </span><a
            href="https://stanislavsky-research.leeds.ac.uk/"
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              style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times
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            by the </span><a href="https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/performance"
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              and Cultural Industries</span></a><span
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            Roman",serif"> of the University of Leeds and the </span><a
            href="https://www.um.edu.mt/performingarts"
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              style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times
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              Performing Arts</span></a><span style="font-size:
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            Roman",serif"> of the University of Malta.<span
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              style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times
              New Roman",serif">Date: </span></b><span
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            line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New
            Roman",serif"><b>4 November, 17:00</b> (GMT – London
            Time)</span></p>
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              style="font-size:12.0pt;
              line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New
              Roman",serif">‘A Slice of <i>Zoom</i> Life: Uta
              Hagen’s Object Exercises in the COVID Era’</span></b></p>
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              style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times
              New Roman",serif">Prof. David Shirley, Executive
              Director, <span
                style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;
                background:white">Western Australian Academy of
                Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University, Perth,
                Australia</span><span style="background:white"></span></span></b></p>
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            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times
            New Roman",serif; color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Following
            a brief contextual overview of the aims and purpose of
            Hagen’s training techniques, this presentation will reflect
            on the advantages and challenges encountered during the
            delivery of a series of classes to first year actors at the
            Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) during
            April-June 2020. How do notions of <i>authenticity</i>
            change in this context and how important is the role of the
            actor’s <i>imagination</i> in this reconfigured approach to
            practical training. </span></p>
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            style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times
              New Roman",serif;
              color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">‘Psychophysical
              Actor Training for the Small Screen’</span></b><b
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              style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times
              New Roman",serif; background:white"></span></b></p>
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          style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><b><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
              Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:
              EN-GB">Prof. Stephanie Daventry French, </span></b><b
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              style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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              mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Professor of Theatre, </span></b><em><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">East
                Stroudsburg University,</span></b></em><b
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              style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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              mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white"> Pennsylvania,
              US</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
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              Roman",serif;background:white"></span></b></p>
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            Roman",serif;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">French
            will demonstrate subtle mind-body exercises using the
            anatomy of thought (WEDGAG).  These have the power to create
            a sculptural story through the body, stimulate inner life
            and thoughts in the circumstances, and activate emotions.</span></p>
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              Roman",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">Session
              Moderated by:</span></b><b
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            mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">Stefan Aquilina,
            Director, School of Performing Arts, University of Malta</span><span
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            Roman",serif;background:white"></span></p>
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href="https://universityofmalta.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Zy3fq0iVSryUdFIq4-Bcqg"
            target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:
              "Times New
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style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New
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            registration is required.<br>
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          <p><font face="Calibri">Prof. Paul Fryer PhD, FRSA, FHEA. <br>
              Visiting Professor, School of Performance and Creative
              Industries, University of Leeds. <br>
              Visiting Professor, School of Arts and Creative
              Industries, London South Bank University. <br>
              Hon. Visiting Professor, School of Arts and Digital
              Industries, University of East London. <br>
              Director, The Stanislavsky Research Centre. <br>
              Editor-in-Chief, <i>Stanislavski Studies</i> (Taylor
              & Francis). </font></p>
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