by Michelle Meyrink | Oct 2, 2023 | Blog, Foundations, Online Classes, Studio Classes
A spontaneous performance is the goal we are working towards. Like the exceptional person who is able to flow with life, the exceptional actor flows with the scene. Spontaneity in each moment. Spontaneity does not live and is not accessed, in the intellectual sphere....
by Michelle Meyrink | May 31, 2023 | Acting, Blog
Fulfillment isn’t something we achieve but rather something that we experience from moment to moment. Every art offers that possibility and most, if not all people drawn to the arts are looking for that fulfillment. Even if someone is simply drawn to the art of...
by Michelle Meyrink | May 3, 2023 | Acting, Blog, Foundations, Online Classes
The audience is the most revered member of the theatre. Without an audience, there is no theatre. Every technique learned by the actor, every curtain and flat on the stage, every careful analysis by the director, every coordinated scene, is for the enjoyment of the...
by Michelle Meyrink | Dec 6, 2022 | Acting, Actorium, Blog
There is a kind of nobility, or dignity, in art. This dignity is earned by the willingness of the artist to give up themselves. It is earned by their willingness and ability to give themselves over to the art, to the role, to the training, to the process, to the...
by Michelle Meyrink | Oct 17, 2022 | Acting, Blog, Online Classes
Learning to drop the plan and follow impulses is acquired learning. In the beginning, it feels like you’re throwing off a nice, warm blanket. You’ve worked through the scene, and you have it all planned out. You are lying all comfy in bed. And then, the blanket comes...
by Michelle Meyrink | Oct 8, 2022 | Acting, Blog, Role Immersion
Learning to work through the struggle is an important part of the training process. If we turn away from the struggle, we save ourselves from that difficulty, but we also save ourselves from having learned what was there to be learned. Role Immersion is difficult....
by Michelle Meyrink | Aug 26, 2022 | Acting, Blog, Online Classes
Our sensitivity is highly intelligent. We know those one thousand moments very well. But when we are dismissing our own experience, trying to prove ourselves to an outside force, sensitivity is an embarrassment. We want to discard it. We feel like we have to squash...
by Actorium | Oct 31, 2021 | Acting, Actorium, Blog
by Actorium | Sep 15, 2021 | Acting, Blog
“An actor should be observant not only on the stage, but also in real life. They should concentrate with all their being… they should look at an object not as any absent-minded passerby, but with penetration. Otherwise their whole creative method will...
by Michelle Meyrink | Feb 23, 2021 | Acting, Blog
An actor needs an audience. If an actor doesn’t have an audience, then the camera must replace that void. The audience, or the camera, provides a formality, a structure, that gives the actor permission to leave the area of “comfortable and casual.” It’s the formality...
