Using the art of movement as medium and metaphor, BodySpeak™ is an interactive and highly intensive program of training designed to integrate mind, body, and spirit. It is the culmination of my forty years' experience as a theatrical performer, author, and teacher.
Since only approximately 10% of communication is verbal, with 90% through movement and body language, BodySpeak™ teaches a powerful method of communication and self-understanding.
BodySpeak™ is, in its essence, a journey from thought to action. Along the way, we learn to focus the mind, discipline the body, and activate powerful creative energies. We discover new and subtle ways to communicate with one another. We also have a lot of fun.
The Electrical Journey Between Simplicity and Complexity For everything that exists, its opposite also exists. We call this the Law of Polarity, I call it the “Bouncing Principle”. All opposites exist simultaneously. Polarity means having both positive and negative. Without…
By Tim Chartier Like the art of its teacher, the Avital Method is beyond words. Describing Samuel’s classroom calls for imagery and shape. In an effort to describe The International Summer Mime Workshop, I turn to the BodySpeak™ logo and its…
How do you fill a space? In writing on a piece of paper, you reveal yourself, not just by what you write, but by how you fill the space. Some people write from edge to edge. Others write only in…
Animals are instinctive: they have an ability to stay still, they have an immediacy of response, and they are naturally graceful and harmonious with nature. Animals know how to heal themselves. When wounded or sick, they withdraw and stop eating,…
Theatrical activity is a necessity for a community. It is the responsibility of the artist or performer to keep that necessity alive. In storytelling, the mind of the audience must be kept right there, expectant, hanging on to every word….
Samuel Ben-Or Avital was born in the small village of Sefrou, near Fez, in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.
LCDS is an independent school for self-discovery through the human Arts. The school offers seminars and workshops teaching the concepts of Theater, Mime, and Movement.