Actor Training
& Projection of Inner States
ON ACTORS & ACTING - by G.L. Horton
RV wrote: "Voice and movement have always been trained
to some degree and in some way as they were the only acting means
"trainable" until Stanislavsky came on the scene. He
alone ventured into the area of the mind and sought the keys to
inspiration, thought, experiential action, feeling and motivation
-- the cream in the milk of acting."
I may be wrong about this, b/c I have only read about it and
talked to people who have studied it: but isn't much of traditional
Eastern acting training focused on the attainment and projection
of inner states? The complement to martial arts, where the disciple
is trained to "let go" of emotion so that s/he can
respond in the moment and allow the chi to flow as a clear untroubled
stream, dramatic art collects, concentrates, and focuses positive
or negative chi and projects it outward to the audience so that
the emotion can be experienced collectively. (4/25/05)
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