The Actor's Instrument

“Chakras are organizational centers for the reception, assimilation, and transmission of life-force energy. They are stepping stones between heaven and earth.” – Anodea Judith THE ACTOR’S PRESENCE Integration of mind, body and energy makes ‘presence’ in the actor...

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 expansive...

“Your instrument is your body, your voice, your emotions, your psyche, your spirit and your soul. Your instrument is You!” – Cindy Tanas THE ACTORS BODY This body of yours is a channel for energies and emotions. Your body is a vessel for your soul and your spirit....

“Our body is an instrument played by divine breath. It is our job to keep the instrument well tuned and to listen to the voice of truth moving through us.” – Anodea Judith I wrote an article a while back called “The Four Bodies of the Actor” The four bodies are the...

“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...

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...

“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 its...

“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 wounds to...

“The chakras are special energy centers which connect us to the multidimensional universe. The chakras are dimensional portals within the subtle bodies which take and process energy of higher vibrational nature so that it may be properly assimilated and used to...