Edgar Novoa -Meisner Acting II Exercice-

Exercice of Miesner acting level II/EJERCICIO DE ACTUACION MEISNER NIVEL II

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[Vacheron123]

Well this isn't the exercise and perhaps that is exactly what the teacher will point out. That it is a conversation of sorts and not the exercise is the problem. But not unusual.

[Luzdeyub]

@Vacheron123

1.- What's your definition of "acting exercise"?

2.- You said: "would be what they call a conversation" Who are "they"?

3.- The purpose of this exercise is to learn about our mistakes, which is your advise for the present exercise?

Believe me we recieved lots of comments from our teacher about our mistakes, could you give us mor advises to improve? Cause that's the purpose.

Best regards.

[Vacheron123]

@Luzdeyub

Advice on how to improve?? Learn to leave yourself alone, develop a powerful ability to put your gentle attention on things outside yourself. Where ever you put your attention you should be able to come "alive" off of it. Actors make powerful contact. Develop that ability to stay out of your head. There is no thinking in acting. Again the only logic is in the response and you'll be working the rest of your life developing your responsiveness for acting, not life, 2 different things.

[Luzdeyub]

@Vacheron123 Thank you very very much, really I appreciate this comments, and I really thank you to take your time to write them, you know as actors we have to improve everyday, and keep on researching to get better techniques.

could you recomend me some specific scene or actor that applies this technique?

Again thank you. :-)

[silverlaws8]

The female knows she is being filmed. She has so many props to use around her, yet she would rather walk back and forth. That is a beginner behavior. She can lean towards the guy on the table, she can use the ladder adjacent to the guy and she also can sit next to him.

[Luzdeyub]

You are right, I am the ine who played the GUY, and if she do something like that in the scene -sit next to him or provoque- for sure the character will react to that, thanks for your comment.

[slippo99]

Enough with the dialogue. Bang her already!

[Vacheron123]

@Luzdeyub

Finally I hope you continue to improve in your work. The Meisner work is not easy to teach nor is it easy to do. The repetition exercise for example can take people a long time to get down. The only logic in the acting is in the response. In the first part of the work on the exercise you are working off of each of those "repeated moments" because that's all there is. Each of you are objects. Later on you learn to work off of the behavior in the "so-called object" - each of you

[Vacheron123]

@Luzdeyub

You don't drop the repetition (then it becomes conversation - "just saying things") you "express it" (that's acting it is an expressive art) and that is why the repetition exercise was developed. To give you a chance to work on your "unselfconscious responsiveness" and that is very hard to do. if in any class you can lose your "self consciousness" that can translate to a lot of freedom in your acting.

[Vacheron123]

@Luzdeyub

In a class of this type taught you'd be hearing a teacher say things like. "Answer this one, answer that one." "Don't drop the repetition, keep it going" "listening and answering." In your exercise there is no repetition. You seem to just be "saying things' as opposed to working off ("living off of") the other guy even if you're doing the activity.

"they" are the teachers of the Meisner work here in NYC

[Vacheron123]

Well this isnt' the exercise is it. It would be what they call a conversation which pointedly what you do not want to have occur in this kind of work.

[Vacheron123]

Well this isnt' the exercise is it. It would be what they call a conversation which pointedly what you do not want to have happen.