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Volume 5
Issue 13 Jill Place, Publisher
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Acting-Out for
Relaxation
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Happy 4th of July! Hope
you're
kicking back from auditioning and your Actor-Business and spending some quality BBQ, beach or sun-basking time today. I've just come back from watching all the fireworks. Since I live on a hill, I can see every display from the Rose Bowl to the Queen Mary. The best way to celebrate I know. Maybe you'll join us next year?
Today I'm sending you
some kick-back ideas with Acting-Out for Relaxation
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Intensive on Saturdays, these classes may be an important training
option for you. The Benefits of the Movable Class are as
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Act Intuitive . . . my new fusion of
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Acting-Out, taps rapidly into muscle
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Acting-Out For
Relaxation
The basis of all
great acting is relaxation. Lee Strasberg said, "In order to
act, the actor must relax". And I don't know any other
technique that focuses upon relaxation like Method does. The
idea is to break the bonds of holding habitual tension or
physical fear all the way down to a cellular level. The
end result is an organic restructuring of your expressive
apparatus
That's not to
say that some tension isn't good. In reality, we need muscular
tension to hold up our bodies. So the result of this work
shouldn't make you a limp rag or a Raggedy Ann doll. But like
setting the sails of a sailboat so that the course is smooth
without constantly correcting it, we're looking to release
whatever is holding you back from sailing into the moment with
expressive impulse. So that you can, as Spencer Tracy says,
"just behave".
Method relaxation helped me so much when I was
acting. So, when I created Act Intuitive,
I was sure to combine the best of that technique with
Grotowski's plastiques and my Acting-Out active imagery.
With some sense memory thrown in for good
measure.
If
you'd like to do this or any other Acting-Out script, speak it
slowly into a recorder, pausing briefly every time you
see three dots. Then find a space to move
and play it back. While you're doing the
script, make sure that you push through habitual
movement to find a new understanding of your muscular and
impulsive memory.
Lie on your back on
the floor. Takes some 3/4 breaths in through your nose, hold for
a
couple of counts, then breathe out through your nose . . .
Breathe in and fill your lungs about 3/4ers full, hold, hold, breathe out
. . . Breathe in and fill your lungs about 3/4ers full, hold, hold, breathe out
. . . Breathe in and fill your lungs about
3/4ers full, hold, hold, breathe out.
Continue to breathe normally and notice that you're
lying on the grass. Feel the clothing on your body as you're
lying on the grass . . . where it's smooth, where it bunches,
where there's slight pockets of sweat in places . . . Stretch
your whole body to feel the clothing and the grass . . .
Now
stretch your whole body fully in the grass with a big "Ahhh"
sound . . . Now notice places that need extra stretching.
Stretch them one at a time, making sounds if you'd like,
rocking if you'd like . . . Do whatever your body needs to do
. . . Roll over on your stomach and do the same, feeling the
grass on your bare skin . . . Feel the sensation of the grass
heighten on your skin . . . allow your body to move if
whatever way the impulse strikes you.
Whenever you' feel the need, push yourself up . . .
noticing how the sensation of the grass changes as you get up
. . . how you feel it under your hands, then on your knees,
then on the soles of your feet. Run in the grass . . . run,
run, run. Do whatever your impulses tell you to do . . .
Now see
a stream. See stepping stones in the stream. Cross the stream
on the stones. They're far apart so you have to stretch your
body to get to the next one . . . Now you fall in. Feel the
water on your skin . . . Step back up on the stones and
continue to the other side . . .
Step
out on the grass . . . Shake off the water . . . Feel your
clothes again.. See how the sensation has changed now that
they're wet . . . Shake some more . . . See a thick-trunked
tree just a few yards away . . . Go hug the tree. Feel the
rough bark on your skin. Stretch your back and legs . . .
Really hug the tree . . .
Continue to explore
the grass, the stream, the pond. Or stretching and
relaxing in any way you'd like.
Next Issue: Art and Soul
Column Three:
How
Deep Should I
Go?
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