2016年，上海戏剧学院表演系、国际表演实验教学工作室在上海市高峰高原学科项目的资助下，邀请到斯科特· 特罗斯特（Scott Trost）、威廉· 加布里埃尔·格里尔（William Gabriel Grier）、克莉丝汀·林克莱特（Kristin Linklater）、小滨夏子（Natsuko Ohama）四位国际顶级专家来校开办“迈斯纳方法”（The Meisner Technique）及“林克莱特声音训练法”（Linklater Voice）大师班，以师资培训为主要目的，举行180个小时的专业训练。本次大师班的学员以上海戏剧学院的专业任课教师为主，包括来自解放军艺术学院、北京电影学院、中国传媒大学、中国艺术研究院、北京大学歌剧研究院、北京联合大学、东华大学、沈阳师范大学、吉林艺术学院、上海电影艺术学院、浙江艺术职业学院等全国各地高等院校的教师和硕博研究生参与训练或进行理论观察研究工作。
“迈斯纳方法” （The Meisner Technique）是由美国“方法派”的三大代表人物之一、戏剧大师桑福德· 迈斯纳 (Sanford Meisner) 在多年戏剧表演实践和理论研究基础上研发的一套表演训练方法，主张演员应当“在想象的环境中真实地生活”。其独特重复的训练方法，即使是短时间内的练习也能让演员体会到所有伟大的表演所共有的真谛。我们邀请到专门从事教授“迈斯纳方法”的两位国际顶级专家斯科特·特罗斯特（Scott Trost）、威廉·加布里埃尔·格里尔（William Gabriel Grier），在2016年10月15日到10月24日，专程从美国来到上海戏剧学院开办为期十天的精品训练课程。
“林克莱特声音方法” （Linklater Voice）也称“解放天然之声”，由美国戏剧艺术家、声音教学大师克莉丝汀·林克莱特（Kristin Linklater）发明的一套专门为戏剧表演开发的演员声音训练方法，主张演员的发声应当“要听到人物，而不只是人声”，必须通过周期漫长而严格的训练，方能实现情感和思想的自由交流。我们这次邀请到林克莱特大师本人，以及教授“林克莱特声音”方法的另一位戏剧大师小滨夏子（Natsuko Ohama）来校，在12月7日到12月16日、2017年1月2日到2017年1月11日为我校教师授课。这次大师班授课训练将填补国内多年以声乐训练方法来训练戏剧、影视演员声音的空白，对我国的表演艺术理论实践起到积极推动的作用。
届时，欢迎全校师生积极参与课程，并与专家互动交流。
2016 Master Class of the Meisner Technique & Linklater Voice In 2016, funded by Shanghai Top Discipline program, the Acting Department of Shanghai Theatre Academy and the Experimental Teaching Studio of International Performing Arts will invite world-class experts-- Mr. Scott Trost and Mr. William Gabriel Grier to host the Master Class of the Meisner Technique, and Mrs. Kristin Linklater and Mrs. Natsuko Ohama to host the Master Class of Linklater Voice, in total 180 hours professional training classes to teachers. The participants of the Master Class include teachers of Shanghai Theatre Academy, as well as teachers and postgraduate students from major universities and academies such as People’s Liberation Army Academy of China, Beijing Film Academy, Communication University of China, Chinese National Academy of Arts, Academy of Opera Peking University, Beijing Union University, Donghua University, Shenyang Normal University, Jilin University of Arts, Shanghai Film Art Academy, Zhejiang Vocational Academy of Art. The participants either attend the training sessions or tackle with the theory research work. The Meisner Technique is an approach to acting developed by one of the former three major representatives of “method” acting, Sanford Meisner, who based his theory on decades of practices and theory research. The technique emphasizes that actors should learn how to live truthfully under imaginary circumstances. The unique repetitive exercises of the Meisner approach, even if practiced for a short time, can introduce an actor to the principles that all great acting share. Mr. Scott Trost and William Gabriel Grier, two world-class experts in teaching the Meisner Technique are invited from the U.S. to China to host a 10-day intensive training program from October 15th through 24th 2016 at Shanghai Theatre Academy. The Linklater Approach to Voice is also known as “Freeing the Natural Voice”, a unique approach to training actors’ voices developed by American theatre artist, voice training master Kristin Linklater. With this approach, professor Linklater said: “I want to hear the person, not the voice.” from actors. Through a series of lengthy and rigorous practical exercises, one will be able to freely communicate their feelings and thoughts. Master Linklater and Natsuko Ohama, another theatre master who teaches the Linklater Approach to Voice, are invited to come to teach the master class from December 7th through 16th, 2016 and from January 2nd through 11th, 2017 at Shanghai Theatre Academy. The training of this master class is expected to fill the gap in training actor’s voice and supplement the singing and articulation speech work that is done in actor training for decades in China, and positively promote the development of acting training practices and theory.
