Acting Classes

In Person Acting Classes

Online Acting Classes

Online Acting Classes

Cindy provides an approach for actors that includes both art and life. A quote from Anton Chekhov: “If you want to work on your art, work on your life” sums up her teaching philosophy.

Cindy address the root of the creative blocks which are not only seen on stage and in film, but also in the life of the actor. She understands the actor/artist as a unique human being and therefore strives to help her students see and bring out their own individual process. Cindy create’s a space that is inspiring and supportive, dedicated to empowering the actor with the necessary tools to work in the world of film and on the ‘stage of life’.

Private Acting Classes (Online)

For over 25 years, Cindy’s students call her teacher, mentor, and life coach. Her classes are for actors and non-actors alike.

Private sessions at Cindy Tanas Actors Studio enable you to receive one-on-one personalized guidance in a comfortable environment tailored to your specific needs – or a virtual online environment for those of you who prefer to work from the comfort of your own home. The attention and focus of these sessions is ‘you’.

These personalized sessions provide you with the opportunity to work exclusively in the personal realm – working with emotional, energetic, mental and physical connection or blocks, repressed energy, or confronting personal obstacles to expression. With compassionate understanding I help you deal with things like self consciousness, inhibition, performance anxiety, self-doubt and inner criticism.

I help you with emotional connection, expression, getting out of your head and into your body, building confidence, relaxing and grounding, and opening up your instrument.

I teach you how to approach, create and channel characters, how to make a role come alive and be compelling, how to deal emotionally and mentally with auditions, film and stage roles or any life difficulty as it impacts you as a human being and artist.

I guide you every step of the way, and I offer you a myriad of ideas you can apply to your life and your creativity.

Using various proven modalities (see below) we bridge the gap between your authentic self and your inherent need for creative expression.

Cindy is trained in Bioenergetics, working with Sub-personalities, Accessing
Archetypes, working with mental, physical, and emotional Connection, Movement,
Relaxation and Focusing Techniques, as well as various Energetic, Mind based and
Emotional Modalities for getting to the root of any creative or personal issue or
resistance. She uses these modalities to facilitate Life and the Creative process.

Please refer to Cindy’s Bio for her extensive training and experience: https://cindytanas.com/cindys-bio/

These sessions are on-going and package rates are available. Please contact Cindy directly at cindy@cindytanas.com or call 416-565-5005.

*Check out the Schedule and Fees page for upcoming acting classes or email Cindy Tanas at cindy@cindytanas.com to register.

Actors Instrument Class (Online)

Acting is an intense emotional, physical and soulful journey. In this acting class, we address the actor holistically. Helping actors become instrumentally ready for this journey is the focus of this one of a kind acting class.

With Cindy’s safe guidance, the actor is supported into new uncharted emotional, physical and mind places within. She helps the actor learn to integrate the mind/body so that images, energies, impulses, sounds and movement are rooted and embodied.

Life and Acting parallel one another. If in your life you are having trouble listening to your truth, being in the moment, staying out of your head, connecting to your emotions, staying grounded; you will have trouble acting in film and theater.

In this class, we address the actor holistically. We deal with the life issues (which are at the root) that get in the way of the acting and give you a strategy and a philosophy for the work and life of the actor. We provide a plan for what you can do on a day to day basis toward growth as an actor and how to live your life as an artist.

Using a successful approach to in-depth personal work and exploration of the imagination we liberate blocked and repressed energy in the body. The personal realm acts as a portal into the universal realm where true connection to all human beings lies. This class releases a vital, alive, and compelling instrument – the actor in you!

This class is essential for any actor at any level. If you are a beginner, this class will give you a strong foundation for all your other work and training. If you have a great deal of training, you may not have had this particular kind of training. It is unique and one of a kind. It may be the answer to the root of your issue, the missing piece.

*Check out the Schedule and Fees page for upcoming acting classes or email Cindy Tanas at cindy@cindytanas.com to register.

Scene Study Classes (Online)

In this scene study class, Cindy teaches you the ‘How To’ with a hands-on personalized teaching approach that nurtures and supports your individual process. Cindy takes no more than six to eight students in a 3/3.5 hour class. Each student is given no less than 45 minutes to one hour of attention to their work each class.

With acting teacher Cindy Tanas in the lead we explore the character in every way. We do in depth script analysis. We improvise and work the scenes fully and completely. Truth is our motto. Passion is our connection. Love for the work is our path.

Scene Study is a deep sea dive into the human collective heart. The character sets the actor free! We let go of our personal judgement and ego and learn to empathize and walk the path of another human being with compassion. We explore deeply within our-selves for the authenticity and humanity required to breathe life into character.

How we approach the work is everything! We make it about the acting work and not the individual performance. We look for the truth inside ourselves. Every character you channel demands you to reveal something about yourself, to expose something very human, very real.

To create the humanity necessary for the acting role, you abandon resistance to your personal truth which creates a portal into universal truth. This always leads to something rich and hidden inside yourself; something you can then use to give your character life.

The environment of this acting class is intense, passionate and committed to the work. Cindy welcomes an intimate group of only six to eight actors and her assistant. This affords her to give you lots of attention and support.

The material and character are specifically chosen for each individual student by Cindy personally.

*Check out the Schedule and Fees page for upcoming acting classes or email Cindy Tanas at cindy@cindytanas.com to register.

Channelling Characters Class (Online)

Cindy’s focus with online acting classes is to create an interactive, connecting experience between members of the group. She goes the extra mile to ensure this is our actual experience.

This class teaches how to remove blocks to channeling characters and how to ultimately channel deep soulful emotionally connected characters.

In this class we will:

  1. Learn to relax blocks that come from mind interference.
  2. Learn how to keep vulnerable parts of us from getting overwhelmed when they get triggered in the work, thereby gaining access to the feelings in the vulnerable realm.
  3. Learn how to make a deep emotional connection to our characters.
  4. And finally – and this is cutting edge work – we use it as a way to channel the soul of a character.

Sub-personalities are the characters that live inside of us in the personal realm. Archetypes are the characters that live inside of us in the archetypal realm. Accessing characters through the use of sub-personalities and archetypes can connect our personal unconscious and the collective unconscious to our character work as actors.

Practicing accessing and channeling our own personal sub-personalities and universal archetypes can help us to learn to drop into a deeper more soulful embodiment for our character work. This deeper place is where the personal and universal realms meet. We create a bridge between actor and character – and finally we merge into – and become the character. This is the place where we find the character inside of us and we find ourselves in the character.

Acting blocks are really protective parts of us which can take over when we’re acting if we are not conscious of them. We can find ourselves being led by a self-conscious part or an inner critic or an internal director, etc. We want to be able to recognize and relax these parts, so they give us space to keep the channel clear and open for the character.

Leadership needs to come from what I call the Capital “A” Actor – who is grounded and centered, open, fully present – and centered in the heart. The character will open up to us and respond to us if we are curious, present, and compassionate. If there is any rejection, judgment, concern, or agenda from any other part of us – the character will slip away, hide, or not show up.

In this acting class we will give expression to and learn to recognize our sub-personalities. We will learn to access leadership from a place of being fully present and available and centered in our hearts.

Note: The deeper individual work of learning to channel and work with vulnerable sub-personalities – is done in private sessions. See Private Acting Class Online.

*Check out the Schedule and Fees page for upcoming acting classes or email Cindy Tanas at cindy@cindytanas.com to register.

Play Reading Class (Online)

This class offers a unique opportunity to be cast in a character role, and read plays with a group of actors (beginners welcome).

After reading the play, we will discuss how the play impacted each of us.

Please let me know if you’d like to be on the interest list. Once I have enough people, I will contact you with details.

*Check out the Schedule and Fees page for upcoming acting classes or email Cindy Tanas at cindy@cindytanas.com to register.