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I don’t only read acting books, even though people who know me best, know as a fact, that reading acting books is my main source of daily entertainment (yes I am boring) hey, I do other stuff too, you know…stuff that involves mostly uh… fuck it…reading. So to make a dull announcement even duller, I […]
FINDING YOUR SHADOW AS AN ARTIST
There is a social construct, isn’t there, a social norm, a social bulldozer that wants to level out and iron out everything. And it does. We agreed years ago (unfortunately) to be half. We all chimed, smiled, and danced to a Monty Python like tune “look at the bright side of life,” (a song meant […]
Please sit…tell me all about it!
The actor’s coach, Um…COUCH, I meant couch, yeah! Sorry, a Freudian slip. Ohboy, do you hear that? Do you hear that slight metallic sound? Heh! It’s the sound of a can of worms!Enjoy this small article on a HUGE subject! More and more teachers find it necessary to study and adapt their techniques and teaching […]
HOW DOES ONE APPROACH A NEW TECHNIQUE?
And why on earth “are we so f@&^ing useless ?” Whenever we delve into the world of a new technique, be it M.Chekhov, S. Meisner, it doesn’t matter; you will fail…My advice?…do so gloriously! You ARE supposed to fail! The technique is new…at least to you, it is! Every step, every minute (mī-ˈnüt) addition in […]
The “Hintergedanken” of acting Part 2 (PUT YOUR CLOTHES ON)
Do you know what en-clothed cognition is? Well, let me explain it to you in layman terms (I am probably going to kill it, so bear with me) An experiment was conducted in 2012, a set of scientists decided to give two teams of participants a lab coat to wear. Team A was told the lab […]
On Vague Terms
There are a lot of vague words in acting! There are a lot of subjective terms and unless a teacher or a director clarifies what he or she means when they utter such words and terms things get murky. at best! Phrases like “find the truth” (who’s Truth, what truth, Characters ? Given circumstances? or […]
Lists and Acting
People who know me know I love lists … why? I think they make our life simpler. Ok, maybe it’s just my OCD! Of course like Santa, there are bad lists and good lists. When I see acting books by trending hollywood acting Gurus doing nothing more than twelve stepping a whole process with so […]
Taking things personally
I see acting students and sometimes professional actors. waiting, Idling in a passive state. They seem to be expecting something to happen, either in the scene or even worst…to them. Well unfortunately the miracle God hand will never appear to bestow upon us feelings, sensations, emotions or beliefs. It is nobody’s job to convince us that […]
