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Meisner Acting - Maggie Flanigan Studio
Meisner Acting- Maggie Flanigan Studio is New York City's Best Meisner Acting Conservatory. To learn about the Meisner Technique and other acting classes call (917) 606-0982.
No one becomes an working actor without first developing a great deal of faith. To begin with, the Meisner acting technique shows actors how to have faith in the craft of acting and the value it brings to our culture as they work so show us our true natures. Of course, an actor must also have some degree of faith in their abilities and talent. This faith can be misguided, however if the actor does not also put their faith in hard work and the process of learning to become a great actor. This is what many Meisner trained actors learn to do, have faith in the process rather than in the end result.
One way Meisner acting classes do this is by guiding acting students through rigorous, emotionally taxing exercises and preparation work in a systematic way. As in many fields, actors studying the Meisner acting technique begin with the simplest skills and work to master them, moving on to more complex skills as they become ready. In Meisner acting classes this usually means beginning with word repetition exercises, a deceptively simple practice.
With the Meisner acting technique, actors usually begin by sitting and repeating a simple phrase with no real meaning, back and forth. Over time, the words become even less important. What takes over are the emotional nuances that each actor begins to feel as they do the exercise. The focus is completely on the acting partner and each actor must use their partner's impulses to trigger their own responses. When working together the actors can take this exercise to a completely different, unique place with no real dialogue at all. This allows for a heightened sense of human nature and all of its emotional responses. This heightened sense of emotional impulses is the essence of what the Meisner technique is about.
The next task is to add more complex scenarios along with the phrases. Learning how to "do" a task on stage rather than "act one out" is much, much harder than most actors realize. Add in the second layer of saying the meaningless phrase back and forth and focusing on the ongoing changes in meaning and emotional layering and you begin to see why truly great actors are not common. Those that have successfully achieved the ability to completely put their selves aside and emerge as a fully developed character are the real talents. More often than not, it's hard work that got them there, not just raw talent.
Another important aspect in the Meisner acting technique is what is known as emotional preparation. This is not just a task that one does in preparing for a specific role, although that may be the case. Emotional preparation is what serious actors do every day, to prepare themselves for any situation--whether it be an audition, a class or a performance. "Acting is doing" was a phrase that Sanford Meisner was known to use often. Basically, the actor must commit every day to his or her actions. Like any other line of work, one must continue to work to learn new skills, acquire new information and practice new techinques. In acting, it just so happens, that many of these "skills" involve creating and immersing oneself in created realities. Whether the most exciting (i.e. falling in love) or the most difficult (i.e. facing death, or divorce) it requires a great deal of study both in the imagination and in the real world.
Great actors, especially those trained in the Meisner acting technique, approach auditions, readings, classwork or onstage performances with the same dedication and depth of preparation, because they are always preparing. True freedom in any art comes out of exhaustively preparing and practicing the art. When an actor is fully prepared, they have a freedom to spontaneously create, and react to what their fellow actors do. Dialogue, the story, is not what brings the meaning into the performance, it's all the unspoken nuances, emotional and physical, that bring it to life. Having faith in the process, in learning the craft, is where any true actor makes the greatest gains.
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