Friday, February 25, 2011

Meisner Acting and Emotional Preparation

Meisner Acting

Many beginning students assume that acting is pretending, as well as one can, to feel something. This is the kind of assumption that leads to poor acting choices, bad habits and less than stellar performances. With proper preparation actors deepen their connection to their personal emotional lives, and then translate that into creating "emotional circumstances" for their character. By tapping into their own feelings and desires, and using them to create an imaginary but true "emotional life" for the character, Meisner acting is instinctively in the moment.

To read more about Meisner acting go here:

http://www.maggieflaniganstudio.com/meisner-acting/



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