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 | 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...
