About

CONSCIOUSNESS IN ACTION

The Ardavany Approach is an innovative method to enhance perception and creative expression for actors. By utilizing The Approach, the actor connects to his inner “present” power source for maximum impact both on-camera and on-stage. This innovative, “conscious” route into the process of acting is easily accessible and extremely effective.

Action is at the heart of American culture. Ardavany’s insightful and advanced approach helps you define/perform the “right action” under every circumstance. The working actor needs to enlist perfect composure to do his work in every media. When the actor is free to be fully “present” in each moment, he is able to extinguish fear, consciously prepare and identify right action.

Ardavany explains, “The place of fearless existence is what we strive for; that is the goal! A destination achieved by realizing the Living Actor Principle, taking the right action, using our life as a stage and knowing where we are going.”

Once fully established in the present moment, the actor naturally understands the core essence of his character while simultaneously understanding the characteristics and needs of those around him. He can then align, attune, and intentionally control what he projects to the world.

CLASSES

The Ardavany Approach blends cold reading, scene study, interactive exercises, on-camera experience, and other tools to help you:

Deeply understand your character.
Establish a clear, trusted connection with your imagination.
Understand the elements that make up action.
Ace the audition and get the job.
Master your relationship with the camera.
Inspire and impact your audience.
Continuously enrich your performance.

Simply and effectively, The Approach teaches the actor to deeply understand his history and character by unveiling his personal truth and archetypal journey. With these tools, the actor can proceed with purposeful dimension into future storylines. Click here to learn more about our classes

THE STORY OF THE APPROACH

Tom Ardavany, a charismatic, spiritual soul with a talent for teaching, developed the Ardavany Approach over 15 years of practicing as an actor, director, and teacher.

In his earlier years, working with various acting studios and in master classes, Ardavany cultivated the techniques he found worked and discarded those that did not. Ardavany still felt at a loss however, when it came to having a foolproof method to confidently use while working on set. No teaching properly prepared him to work in the context of a foreign environment outside the classroom. The intense stressors of working in the television and film industry, for example, were not being addressed. “Nothing helped me realize my full potential when action was called,” Ardavany explains. Fifteen years later, after many years of focused effort, The Approach methodology effectively eliminates these obstacles and allows the actor to perform his craft in a fearless, “present” state of being.

TOM ARDAVANY

Tom Ardavany has acted in and directed numerous films and plays. Ardavany was awarded “ Best Director” for the Pulitzer prize winning play “Short Eyes”, written by Miguel Pinero. Tom currently has two features in post production, “ Eden’s Mountain” (shot in Wyoming) & “ Pot Luck People”, starring Josh Holloway.

Ardavany teaches “The Ardavany Approach” to actors, writers, directors and other creative individuals at his beachfront studio in Venice, in Hollywood, and at special sessions worldwide. He has led 5 of his acting clients on to win two Golden Globe and three Emmy awards. His clients have included Josh Holloway ( ABC’s Lost), Rudy Reyes (HBO’s “Generation Kill”), and Matt Gerald (Avatar).

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