by Cindy Tanas | Jan 17, 2021 | Acting Tips and Techniques
“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 | Nov 29, 2020 | Developing the Actors 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...
by Cindy Tanas | Nov 29, 2020 | Developing the Actors Instrument
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...
by Cindy Tanas | Jul 16, 2018 | Developing the Actors Instrument
1. DAILY GROUNDING FOR THE ACTOR Getting in touch with feelings and impulses and acting on them spontaneously is part of the actors craft and you need to be in your body for that. First thing in the morning do a 10 minute “stretch and breathe”. Breathe into each part...
by Cindy Tanas | Feb 24, 2016 | Developing the Actors Instrument
“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”– Carl Jung Definition of passion… “strong and barely controllable emotion.” A HEALTHY APPROACH TO ACTING Acting students will often say to me “I need my...
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