Andreas Voutsinas & Lee Strasberg
Andreas Voutsinas completed a sex scene, and Lee (Strasberg) asked, “What did you use there? I saw you were working on something, but I couldn’t quite see what it was.”“I used a sensory memory of having taken a bath.”“Why? What did that have to do with the scene?”“I did it because I wanted to have […]
Chekhov’s Five Principles
Michael Chekhov speaks about five principles in a series of lectures he gave to a group of actors in Hollywood in 1955. For example, the “psychological gesture,” which is externally invisible during performance, serves as “material” for inspiration during rehearsal and performance. This also applies to the “imaginary or energetic body,” the “imaginary/ideal center,” and […]
Impregnated moments
What you are doing right now, right NOW, is already impregnated with the next Moment without you even knowing it. This moment right now contains the potential of the next moment! Nothing ever ends its a continuum of moments and that is energizing to know! When you close your eyes right in this moment you […]
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 […]
