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Date: Saturday, November 7th, 2026
Time: 10:30am - 1:30pm
Location: ASK - The Arts Society of Kingston
97 Broadway, Kingston, NY 12401
Early Bird Pricing: $115
Regular Pricing: $125
Workshop Description
How does a character wake up in the body?
In this masterclass, we will explore character emergence through Michael Chekhov’s psycho-physical approach, using Psychological Gesture, qualities of movement, and Imaginary Centers as gateways into the physical and imaginative life of a character. We will investigate how character can emerge through movement, imagination, sensation, impulse, and relationship.
The workshop will begin with a Becoming Otherwise somatic practice, inviting participants to slow down, awaken sensation, and cultivate an embodied state of listening. From this place, we will begin to explore the physical qualities and imaginative possibilities available within the body.
The work will move between somatic practice, imagination, physical exploration, and character investigation, allowing participants to experience how the body can become a pathway into the character's inner world.
The intention is not to create a fixed physical “characterization,” but to develop a more responsive relationship between body, imagination, impulse, and dramatic action so that character can remain alive, surprising, and available in the moment.
Participants should come prepared to move, explore, imagine, and work physically. No previous experience with Michael Chekhov technique is required.
About Camille Litalien
Camille Litalien is a movement educator, somatic practitioner, and artist whose work explores the relationship between body, imagination, sensation, and character. She is currently the Head of Movement at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, where she teaches movement and oversees the school’s movement faculty.
Her teaching invites performers to experience the body not simply as an instrument to be trained, but as a place of perception, imagination, relationship, and transformation. She is particularly interested in how physical sensations and images can open pathways into character, allowing actors to discover choices rather than impose them.
Camille is also the creator of Becoming Otherwise, an evolving somatic and imaginal practice exploring mindfulness, sensation, relational presence, and creative transformation. Her teaching is grounded in curiosity, play, rigor, and deep attention to the individual body and its unique ways of knowing.
Date: Saturday, November 7th, 2026
Time: 10:30am - 1:30pm
Location: ASK - The Arts Society of Kingston
97 Broadway, Kingston, NY 12401
Early Bird Pricing: $115
Regular Pricing: $125
Workshop Description
How does a character wake up in the body?
In this masterclass, we will explore character emergence through Michael Chekhov’s psycho-physical approach, using Psychological Gesture, qualities of movement, and Imaginary Centers as gateways into the physical and imaginative life of a character. We will investigate how character can emerge through movement, imagination, sensation, impulse, and relationship.
The workshop will begin with a Becoming Otherwise somatic practice, inviting participants to slow down, awaken sensation, and cultivate an embodied state of listening. From this place, we will begin to explore the physical qualities and imaginative possibilities available within the body.
The work will move between somatic practice, imagination, physical exploration, and character investigation, allowing participants to experience how the body can become a pathway into the character's inner world.
The intention is not to create a fixed physical “characterization,” but to develop a more responsive relationship between body, imagination, impulse, and dramatic action so that character can remain alive, surprising, and available in the moment.
Participants should come prepared to move, explore, imagine, and work physically. No previous experience with Michael Chekhov technique is required.
About Camille Litalien
Camille Litalien is a movement educator, somatic practitioner, and artist whose work explores the relationship between body, imagination, sensation, and character. She is currently the Head of Movement at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, where she teaches movement and oversees the school’s movement faculty.
Her teaching invites performers to experience the body not simply as an instrument to be trained, but as a place of perception, imagination, relationship, and transformation. She is particularly interested in how physical sensations and images can open pathways into character, allowing actors to discover choices rather than impose them.
Camille is also the creator of Becoming Otherwise, an evolving somatic and imaginal practice exploring mindfulness, sensation, relational presence, and creative transformation. Her teaching is grounded in curiosity, play, rigor, and deep attention to the individual body and its unique ways of knowing.