At Acting in Motion, we strive to create an atmosphere of joyful and inquisitive exploration. We encourage our students to take chances and provide a safe environment in which to play with the elements of risk and reward. We cultivate our attitude of disciplined freedom and provide them with a method that allows them to dance with intention.

The AIM Method:

Use a combination of traditional Method Acting(Stanislavsky, Strasberg, Adler) and Improvisation techniques (from Spolin to Sills to our own mentor Dudley Riggs) to enhance existing choreography or to create new work.
Help the Dancer to create a fully formed story that not only fits the lyrics and/or feel of the song and choreography but is tailored to the Dancer’s age, ability and emotional range.
Establish the character, story and location as well as the Intention/Dramatic Action.
Explore tactics used to accomplish the Intention.
Identify the obstacle in order to create dramatic tension- the push and pull and build often missing in competitive dances.
Pinpoint an approach to raise the stakes in order to make the piece more dynamic.
Synthesize all these elements to create a compelling piece with a cohesive beginning, middle and end.

How We Elevate Your Dancers

Provide the advantage in an industry that defines competition
Recognize the need to reinvent the competitive dance model by embracing a relevant approach to performance training.
Encourage and equip Dancers to fully inhabit a character
Support and foster the value of communication and storytelling
Bridge the gap between technician and artist

“Our goal is to encourage and nurture creativity, giving Dancers a “voice” with which to express themselves in a safe yet challenging atmosphere of disciplined freedom. We believe in the power and necessity of developing a path to communicate, to tell a story and to express the uniqueness of the individual in a universal way.”