The Artistry of Acting for Everyone
Talent comes from Instinct
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 redirect it,...
Try
Trying is like a muscle that can be developed through use in difficult situations. “Try this ice cream” will not not improve your ability to take on new things in the same way as trying something that you’re unfamiliar with, something you fear or dislike. But, you can actually build the muscle of ‘try’.
A Straight Back, Acting & the Flow of Truthful Emotion
Meditation, and in this case Zen meditation, is an incredibly effective tool to allow for the flow of truthful feelings - the flow that is so necessary for any actor. Zen meditation requires that we place ourselves in a position we’re not normally in. We cross our...
Acting vs Audition Class
At the start of our Foundations I class, in the interest of clarifying the work that we were embarking on we talked about the difference between an Audition Class and an Acting Class. Sometimes people come to Actorium having only taken audition classes and so the...
Going Forward and Looking Back
In a culture where fear is the air that we breathe, it is hard to see how deeply fearful our education is - let alone imagine another way to teach or learn. Parker Palmer In my classes I often talk about building a specific school culture. In this new year,...
Embodying the Objective.
The single most important thing for an actor's performance is the Objective. In Character Development, we focus on the Super Objective; in P&A, we focus on Scene Objective. Everyone has an Objective, and if the actor is not living out the character's Objective,...