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Sunday, April 25, 2010

Actor's Training

In order to achieve the craft of the acting we need to recognize that it is not possible to do it without know ourselves as better as we can. The way towards this, is the Training.
All what the actor does in the Trainng is to know himself better and better, don’t make confussion, it is not mechanical Training like running or Pumping Iron, in order to have beautiful shape of body, even might be necessary sometimes to reinforce your muscles.  But the most important it is creative training where you can discover more and more about you as an actor and as human being
Once we decided to be part of the Art of Acting and share it with people we need to work and get knowledge about how we behave in daily life, and which are our possibilities of creation and fantasy.
Once we notice them, increase them as much as we can.
Everybody have the possibility to have Emotions, Sensations, Feelings,Reactions, Imagination and Creation. The difference in between Actor and non Actor is that we choosed to work on things that we lived everyday and take them as a profession.
So there is no way than to work and investigate.
Actor without training is like a plant without water.

Some tools that an actor need to know:

1-SENSES
2-BODY
3 -PRESENCE
4-PLASTICITY AND FLEXIBILITY
5-THE VOICE , singing and speak
6-VIBRATION OF BODY
7-PHYSICAL ACTIONS
8-SEQUENCE OF ACTIONS
9-HOW TO WORK WITH THE TEXT


1- Fundamental  to be an actor is to know how your senses work:
Touch, Hearing, Taste, Smell, Observation and Speech.
2- Know your body as better as you can do, in slow speed, in quick speed, extremely slow speed, extremely fast speed, not common postures, etc.
3- How to reach the presence that actors needs  to call the attention of the spectator
4- The knowledge of your body that will make your spine alive.
5- How to be listened without force and damage your voice.
6- It is necessary to have that vibration  to be an actor, it costs work.
7- The difference in between phisical action and gesture.
8- Create a sequence of actions that you can repeat or change keeping the structure.
9- Text cannot be just for to be said but as a part of your spontaneity.

NO ONE OF THOSE TOOLS CAN BE ACHIEVED BY READING,
ONLY BY PRACTICE, THIS DOESN’T MEAN HARD WORK, BUT DEEP JOY.