Teaching
At the center of all her actor training is
the 'Heart Centered Actor' technique which Michelle has been developing since 2020.
This technique clarifies and deepens the connection between an actor's intuitive inner environment and their connection to other actors on stage, using various somatic and performance practices she has taught for the past 23 years. Michelle invites performers to'Come Home to Your Body' as a connection to and experience of the body as a site of performance based practice.
Studio as Experiment "Lab"
Michelle has taught acting and directing in numerous university actor training programs (University of Florida; Barry University; Jacksonville State University; California State University, Fresno), empowering actors in the use of Lessac Kinesensics Somatic BodyVoice in the training of Heightened Text Styles: The Greeks, Commedia dell'Arte, Shakespeare, Moliere, Restoration Comedy, Chekhov, Absurdism, Pinter and Farce.
Her performance teaching practice is rooted in Stanislavski/Hagen and informed by the methodologies of Somatics.
She considers the studio a place for
vulnerability, bravery and ferocity.
