~from the Alissa Strople Music Studio~ Character Study Based on the Meisner Technique for acting which is to “live truthfully under imaginary circumstances”. (Meisner, 1987) Knowing your character will help you to “get out of your head” and behave naturally while acting. This reduces self- consciousness and allows the actor to be “in the moment”. This is perfect for singers who have enough to worry about already! There are three principles of the Meisner technique that apply perfectly for acting for singing. 1. Sanford Meisner says, “Acting is not emoting, acting is doing something”. 2. The ...
Continue Sanford meisner on acting summary Sanford Meisner said his approach to training is based on bringing the actor back to his emotional impulses and to acting that is firmly rooted in the instinctive. It is based on the fact that all good acting comes from the heart and that there is no mentality. Learn to live in the moment as an actor, and let go of any idea of the result. Learn what it means to really do and to respond honestly at some point based on what you get from your partner. Through improvisation, emotional truth and personal ...
Sanford Meisner On Acting "Be Specific" "An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words." "sturm and drang" 1. Acting comes from your heart, not your head. 2. The foundation of acting is the reality of doing. 3. Acting is Living truthfully under imaginary circumstances. 4. Good actors are impolite, reactionary, violent, and abrasive and do the exact opposite of what polite society expects. 5. If you're really doing it, and you're concentrated on the other person or activity, then you don't have the time to ...
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