Pure Imagination with
Ankur Vikal

About The Course.

We hide our state of mind and our feelings in life. A person drunk will act sober, a person attracted to someone will ignore the source of their love or infatuation. Truth peeks out, despite our best attempts at hiding it – A sway, a slurred word, a furtive look. The attempt is to not show how we feel at all times.

As actors, we often overcompensate and display our wares when we self tape an audition or act in films. What makes a performance true?

One may reach the set before time and learn one’s lines, conjure a back story for one’s character too.

How do we imagine the world of our characters and stay there amidst the complete chaos of the set?

By imagining spaces, ailments, injuries, relationships and businesses
that we engage in everyday but forget the nuance of, once we act.

Over this insightful Workshop, you will learn to build and hone your imagination through a series of action problems.

Imagination exercises help us learn how to stay focused in the moment and remain there. Each second of the take.

These exercises help us grasp words and concepts like: The Want of the Character, their Urgency, their Relationships and their Conflicts.

YOUR TUTOR
Ankur Vikal is an award winning film and stage actor of Indian Origin. He was drawn to acting during his working class upbringing in Gujarat, India, where he grew up listening to his grandfather’s stories. His childhood sensitized
him to the narratives around him, and drew him to the power of inspiring
storytelling.

He graduated from the National School of
Drama (NSD), New Delhi, in 2000, after studying architecture at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

Ankur’s film career began in 2001 with the ground-breaking Indian film Mango Souffle. He also played the role of “Maman” in Slumdog Millionaire, for which he received a SAG award in 2009 for Best Ensemble Cast. His performance as the equally frightening and charming “Maman” was praised by critics and
audiences worldwide.

This was followed by Nirbhaya, a play about the gang rape on a bus in New Delhi on 16 December 2012. The play went on to win a Fringe First Award, an Amnensty Award and a Herard’s Angel Award when it opened at Edinburgh in 2013. It was performed in many countries around the world and was considered the most important work in Human Rights Theatre in the world that year.

Ankur was also a recipient of an Actor as Creator Award for his short film Beef and is a regular tutor at Bow Street Academy.

APPLICATIONS: To apply please email a Headshot and CV to training@bowstreet.ie

DATES: AUGUST 22nd

COST: €80

If you don’t have a headshot a photo of yourself will do.

Pure Imagination with Ankur Vikal

About The Course.

Pure Imagination with
Ankur Vikal