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 school tap into soulful acting in their scene work
To touch this place of soul is to feel the ache, the pain, the longing…to surrender to the internal world of the feeling body. To express passion through the soul is to open and become a vessel for the movement of its energy…to release that energy through the voice and body…to reach out…to reach out and die…to reach out and be saved. To realize passion is to recognize intense desire, suffering and pain. It is to risk sacrificing one’s small “s” self (ego) for the actors work. To realize the soul is to recognize grace and beauty…to see it, smell it, taste it, touch it, in one’s body and in the atmosphere around one’s body. When the actor touches and expresses passion through soul, the audience touches soul in return. It is contagious. To touch your soul with your audience is to connect in a universal way. Cindy Tanas Actors Studio teaches acting classes for Theatre and Film in Toronto and the GTA, Collingwood and Southern Georgian Bay.