Three-Month Intensive Course

Our three-month intensive course runs throughout the year. This foundation course is designed to prepare you for further vocational training. The courses conducted in English are based at our premises both in Fontainebleau and Athens

The core of our work at Fonact focuses on the ensemble, which aims to develop your individual and collective confidence. Our cohort comes from all corners of the world, which offers a wealth of cultural diversity and experience.

Throughout your training, you will learn how crucial it is to be a generous, yet demanding participant in your group, how to take risks, and have the courage to use your theatrical space. You will begin to feel, appreciate and understand the dynamic relationship between strength and vulnerability.

The term consists of craftwork and text-based projects. You will learn how to confidently work on directed scenes, which will lead to an end-of-term performance.

Voice and Movement classes work to build your awareness of physical and vocal release. This first insight into solid craftwork enables you to better understand your strengths and weaknesses.

We aim to help you understand what the voice and body communicate and to become aware of unconscious or conditioned habits and behaviours.  

The purpose of voice work is to link movement and breathing as we examine and analyse vocal progressions. This will help you understand the core mechanics of the voice and how it supports the emotional and physical demands of a performance. 

You will explore the foundations of speech and singing as we introduce vocal support, how to implement it, how to follow your own vocal progression, and adapt to your personal and professional needs.  

By the end of the intensive, you will have a solid foundation of how the voice works, what your personal vocal development needs are, as well as phonation, resonance, range, and placement. 

Your movement training covers the foundations of body alignment, functional movement, weight transference, and spatial awareness. We follow the principles of Laban to guide you through the motion factors of weight, time, and space. 

During your course, you will learn the foundations of how to release physical tension and enhance core strength. Movement classes explore contact improvisation, rhythm, and physical chorus work alongside individual physical development. 

We build upon the ensemble work to enable you as an actor to speak for yourself, to recognise the qualities we share as human beings, and celebrate those that make us special as individuals.

We believe freeing your creative imagination is as crucial as craftwork and we encourage the development of this throughout the course.

Your time with Fonact will be rigorous and demanding. As we are an international school of excellence you will work in a nurturing and supportive environment over a minimum of 360 hours. The work is designed to challenge you and ensure you emerge from the three-month intensive programme stronger and invigorated.

The three-month intensive is preparatory training and will give you a clearer sense of how you might benefit from further vocational training, and what to look for as you make your next informed steps.