How the Actor Commands Attention
It’s a common saying in theatre that the moving figure dominates, but that’s not the whole story. Actors are taught from the beginning of their careers that the audience pays more attention to the person moving than to the person talking. This is true to a point, but conventional wisdom is wrong again when taken […]
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5 Tips for Overcoming Exhaustion and Getting Back to Work
“The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.”
–Mia Hamm
If there is one thing the audience never knows about actors, it’s how tiring our job truly is. People have literally laughed at me when I told them how tired I was after […]
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Your Way to a Better Brain
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whether you’re an actor or not, everyone could use a few tips for keeping the old steel trap sharp, right? We all want to find ways to keep our brains working at their best. Actors particularly have to keep themselves creative and […]
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Change Your Life Through Laban Movements
“Why, then, ’tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison.”
Shakespeare Act II, Scene II “Hamlet”
We’ve talked a lot in the past about how your physical body can inform your mind. It’s a fact that changes in your use of the […]
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Become a Jedi and a Great Actor
A few weeks ago I was spurred to buy a book outside my local library off of a cart they use to raise money. I bought this book, which was written back in the early seventies, for one whole dollar because the back cover made me laugh so damn hard. The book was called Kenesics: […]
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Projection Part 3: Making Sounds (or Good Vibrations!)
So far in the Projection series we have outlined exercises to strengthen your diaphragm, and cleared up some misconception on how your body breathes, but there is one more step to projection.
To truly understand how to project you must understand how your body produces sound in the first place. This is truly a case of […]
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