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 | Feb 14, 2021 | Acting, Actorium, Blog, Foundations, Online Classes
Foundations class is the heart of Actorium’s training. In this class we use the term: the stake of truth. Truth because, to the degree that you are able to work authentically as yourself, to that same degree you will be able to work authentically in your acting. Not...
by Michelle Meyrink | Dec 16, 2020 | Acting, Blog, Dialogue, Foundations, Online Classes, Studio Classes
We practice speaking and listening. We don’t practice conversing. We practice nothing else but speaking and listening. Nothing else but that simple back and forth of communication. It is a conversation with no subject. But the first thing that happens when two people...
by Michelle Meyrink | Aug 8, 2019 | Acting, Blog, Foundations
The poet frees the words. The painter frees the hand The singer frees the voice. The actor frees themselves. Acting and the actor are one thing. They are not separate. In acting you always train to free your limitations to authentic self expression. : If I...
by Michelle Meyrink | Nov 1, 2018 | Blog, Foundations
Stanilsavski uses the word Communion: “an intimate fellowship or rapport.” When the audience reacts with laughter or tears, actors respond to that feedback. That is natural and is a part of the dynamics of acting. It is the audience/performer relationship....
by Michelle Meyrink | Jun 11, 2018 | Acting, Blog, Foundations
When we begin the work in Foundations, which asks us to open up to the expression of truthful feelings, many of us encounter a habitual response: an automatic redirection of our emotions. When a truthful feeling comes up, we don’t naturally express it: we...
