Happy Monday! Welcome back to Acting Class Daily and Part Six of The Elysium Aesthetic. We continue all month with classes focusing on each of our three areas of lifelong growth: artistry, instrument and craft.
Today’s member-exclusive class introduces a powerful new tool to our Artistry section. Enjoy!
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This Month’s Focus
Part Six: The Specific & Improvisational Actor
Today’s Class
Emotional Keys
Today’s Target
Emotion is beautifully complicated.
Emotion comes when we taste life. When something pierces the haze.
As actors we face enormous pressure to do something to ensure our emotional behavior is in-line with the character.
To show the emotion that should be there.
This week our attention turns to a tool that will reveal the specifics, grow the access, and develop the muscles of a fearless emotional instrument.
The teammate of our Emotional Keys.
Next Class: Vocal Practice (Part Two)
Previous Class: The Specific & Improvisational Actor
Societal Expectations
Brought Out Of Us
Access & Range
Emotion Is Complicated
Grand Majestic Piano
ARTISTRY: Elysium Artist, Personal Crafting Schedule, DEAR (3Qs, MoM, New Knowings, Motivation Muscle, Emotional BPs, Fearless Fountain, GoS Spotlight, Mentorship Muscle)
INSTRUMENT: Physical Practice, Imagination Practice, The Veil, Vocal Practice, Emotional Practice, Psychological Practice, Personal Warmup.
CRAFT: EA First Rehearsal, Rehearsal Report, Learning Lines, Nurture Transformation, Nature Transformation, Sensory Transformation, Physical Transformation, Relationship Transformation, Soul Work, Character Hooks, Etude Work, Rehearsal Exercises.
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