by Cindy Tanas | Jan 24, 2021 | Personal Growth Through Acting
ACTING FROM GROUND AND CENTRE AWARENESS Ground and Centre Awareness is a ‘state of being’. Actors who enter a state of G&C A experience a grounded connection to the earth, a sense of ease in the body, a ‘centredness’ in the belly and heart, with an...
by Cindy Tanas | Jan 16, 2021 | Acting for Beginners
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 | Dec 7, 2020 | Acting Tips and Techniques
“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 | Personal Growth Through Acting
“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...
by Cindy Tanas | Nov 29, 2020 | Personal Growth Through Acting
THE ACTORS PRESENCE Actors must practice the art of expansion in order to create presence in their work. How does the actor practice expansion? First consider this: love expands / the ego contracts. Acting that is born and bathed in love will be expansive, full of...
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