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 9, 2018 | Blog
Actorium’s August Video. You can also watch “Actors! Meisner Opportunties are Everywhere!” directly on Vimeo.
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...
by Michelle Meyrink | Apr 2, 2018 | Blog
Websters dictionary, the first definition of the word TRY is to make an attempt at. In anything you do, in anything at all, your first movement towards accomplishment is to try. Before it happens there is the effort to try to make it happen. To stand up, you must...
by Michelle Meyrink | Jan 11, 2018 | Acting, Actorium, Blog, Uncategorized
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...