Movement for Actors
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Nathan Flower teaches movement for actors at the Maggie Flanigan Studio. In this video he talks about how movement is related to breath.
How we breathe is so intricately related to how we are experiencing the world around us. Most of the time we are not thinking about it. Most of the time our breath is subconsciously operating below our conscious experience.
Actor movement training needs to bring the actor to a much clearer more conscious and less habitualized use of the breath. If I am surprised, if I an shocked, if I am upset, if I am uncomfortable, my breath is responding to that. Even before I am really aware of it. It threads all the way back to our survival instincts, to our feelings of safety, our feeling of security. If we are uncomfortable we are shocked. If we are feeling threatened our breathe kicks in or stops kicking in for a particular reason and actors have the unique challenge of having to undo eons of survival instincts so that the moments that surprise, the moments that shock, the moments that are emotionally impacting do not shut the body down and do not shut the breath down but the actor is able to breath through them and the audience then is able to see someone live through something really amazing, really startling, really deep. It is pretty important.
For more information about on movement for actors and physical technique visit our website or call us at (917) 789-1599.
Maggie Flanigan Studio
153 W 27th St #803
New York, New York
10001
(917) 789-1599
www.maggieflaniganstudio.com/
13 янв 2016
