SAS: Tom Brophy & Jenni Brown - Improvisational Scene Work

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Acting is Doing.

Here's a small glimpse on how we go to work on a scene. Both are listening, taking personally the behavior of, and what's being said by, the other person.

Now, the Seattle Acting School approach begins to take on the structure of a scene and a real acting exercise. Someone is doing something while someone else is trying to get something from them. Both are listening, taking personally the behavior of, and what's being said by, the other person and responding freely to that behavior and verbiage in every new moment. We practice all those things until there is a kind of "muscle memory" to the exercise. With practice, all of those things become automatic when you act.

SEATTLE ACTING SCHOOL

There are only two things taught at The Seattle Acting School: one simple acting exercise and an approach to script analysis. Students teach themselves to act, through correct practice. Progress is made through practice. Those who practice with the greatest frequency, make the fastest progress.

The Seattle Acting School program is progressive. Like barre work for the dancer or scales for the musician, students master the fundamentals through disciplined practice. Learning to act, like learning to write, is a process of self-discovery, developing imagination, and practice in expressing oneself clearly.

The approach at Seattle Acting School demands a serious work ethic because acting demands a serious work ethic. You will not have learned to be an actor if you have not been trained to have a serious work ethic. That is a large part of this training. Failure to practice, with fellow classmates, between every class, makes clear that the student is not serious and must take classes elsewhere.

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