by Michelle Meyrink | May 1, 2017 | Acting, Blog, Uncategorized
The training that we do in scene study at Actorium is based on Meisner and Method techniques. The ultimate goal in this training is for the actor is to be living and responding freely in the moment. This is an important factor at every level. I judge an actor’s work...
by Michelle Meyrink | Dec 29, 2016 | Acting, Blog
In the beginning, actors work very hard to do a scene, or play a role ‘correctly’. They struggle to meet the demands of the script to the point where they follow it like an architect may follow a blueprint. They no longer allow themselves the freedom of...
by Michelle Meyrink | Oct 27, 2015 | Acting, Blog
NOTES FROM ACTORIUM’S HOMEWORK FOR MONOLOGUE STUDY: Spend an hour a day sitting with your monologue ‘feeling’ it out. 1. Don’t rehearse it aloud. When you rehearse aloud you are nailing your coffin. You’re creating a dead performance. You...
by Michelle Meyrink | Oct 12, 2015 | Acting, Blog
Anyone that has gone up on the stage at Actorium, knows that there is more to a Meisner technique class than repeating what the person in front of you says. You are asked to not only respond fully and truthfully, but you are asked “to see” fully and...
by Michelle Meyrink | Sep 14, 2015 | Acting, Blog
Foundations training is all about getting out of our thinking, self-judging, self-editing minds so that our natural instincts can flow. We don’t introduce objectives at this point because the last thing we want to do at the outset is to introduce an intellectual...
