Scene Study
About the Course
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Join us for a 5-week scene study exploring text, process, and practice through the lens of the Non-Dominant Approach. Each class begins with a 30–40 minute warm-up introducing tools and techniques that carry directly into the work, followed by two hours of scenes, monologues, and recalls.
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You’ll be asked to confront habits of control, challenged to let character be revealed instead of sculpted, and guided to integrate your own real-time human experience into the character's embodiment.
This is a course for artists, seasoned and amateur alike, seeking to build practice, find community, and discover a process that gives back instead of taking.
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By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Engage with the fundamentals of the Non-Dominant Approach and apply them in and outside the classroom.
- Build a pre-performance prep that supports alignment, momentum, and presence.
- Integrate real-time experience (sensations, judgments, impulses) into the character’s humanity - safely, intentionally, and repeatably.
- Reflect objectively on your work, separating craft-based recall from self-judgment, and track cause & effect over prescription.
- Rehearse with partners using listening, consent, and boundary-honoring practices.
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Mondays:
Jan 5th- Feb 2nd
6:00-9:00pm​​
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TUITION: $250
💡 Sliding scale & pay-what-you-can spots available. Please refer to our ABOUT US page and Pricing section to learn more.
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FULL SCALE: $250
MID SCALE: $175
LOW SCALE: $125
About the Teacher
Benjamin Bass is a queer multi-disciplinary artist living in Philadelphia and the founder of Broken Mirror Studio. ​ They hold a B.F.A. in acting from S.U.N.Y. Purchase and have been fortunate enough to work and continue training worldwide. Notable works include "We Own This City," "Audrey's Children," The Obie award-winning hit "The Woodsman", Trey Lyford's "The Accountant," and the Chinese national tour of "One Starry Night." Benjamin is a proud member of both the Actor's Equity Association and the Screen Actor's Guild​
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As an educator, Benjamin was privileged to be the first B.F.A acting professor at University of the Arts. They are also the founder and head instructor at Broken Mirror Studio. They have taught master classes for N.Y.U., S.U.N.Y. Purchase, University of the Arts, UPENN, Drexel University, and various other studios throughout NY and Philadelphia.