by Cindy Tanas | Jan 17, 2021 | The Actor's Instrument
“You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.”― Stella Adler, The Art of Acting Many students in my acting classes who really want to learn acting will approach me and ask what they can do on a day to...
by Cindy Tanas | Jan 16, 2021 | Inspiration for the Actor
Passion is the soul’s language, all that aches, all that yearns and longs for, all that is deep and filled with the unresolved…this is the passionate soul. “Without acting I cannot breathe.” – Sir Laurence Olivier In this image, two actors in our Toronto acting...
by Cindy Tanas | Jan 10, 2021 | The Actor's Life
Over the past 25 years I have been teaching acting classes, I have come to realize the enormous benefits an acting class can give to any human being from any walk of life. You do not have to be an actor to take my acting classes in Toronto. I say “my” acting classes...
by Cindy Tanas | Dec 7, 2020 | The Actor's Craft
“The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit… archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character.” Kristan Higgins – American Author. Like any artist, the actor is required to create with what is...
by Cindy Tanas | Nov 29, 2020 | The Actor's Instrument
“The kind of acting that’s wholly literal or cerebral is wrong. It’s useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can’t be organic.” – Mike Leigh MIND INTERFERENCE AND THE ACTOR Do you feel you have talent but you can’t quite seem to take it to...
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