The Now!
Embrace, invest, live in and commit to the phrase that you’re saying, NOW! Fulfill the present moment. The past is over, the future will arrive – awareness of either will undermine your commitment to the present. Don’t worry about the next line, the next action, the next transition, but fully inhabit the immediacy and importance of THIS moment.
Act on impulse in the now. Be compelled to respond from pure awareness, from intense looking and listening. Act from necessity in the moment. Allow behavior that happens, not behavior that is planned - alive, dynamic, electric performance.
Yes, risk forgetting the next line – it’s the only way to breathless, moment-to-moment work. Only what is true in the moment has importance.
Each rehearsal, each performance becomes a true experiment, an improv with text. Intense looking and listening is also the secret to great acting for the camera.
As the great American actress, Geraldine Page, once said: “Actors must be like creatures of the forest, whose very lives depend upon looking and listening.”
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"Most acting classes offer scene study and critique, but it is much more unusual to run into someone who is willing and able to guide the actor through several scenes from a feature-length script, with cameras, in order to create the experience of developing a character in a real film. This difference has clearly made a difference — at least if the performances I observed at Maravilla are any indications. The talent on display was noticeable, but even more impressive was the discipline, as well as the strong sense of an entire cast and crew working as a team. Come to think of it, the best analogy would be to an actual film set, which is, I suppose, the point."Donelan
The SB Independent