Five Day Intensive: Elevate Your Craft

• Building on the Repetition Exercise: Start with the foundational repetition exercise to connect with your impulses and respond truthfully.
• Engaging in Independent Activities: Move into independent activities that demand full attention and create unanticipated, truthful behavior.

Applying Techniques to Text: Bring the techniques learned to a written text, practicing the reality of the conversation.

Meisner’s signature repetition exercise helps you grow into trusting in your impulses, ensuring every performance is authentic and surprising. This start with becoming extremely aware of your partners behavior – and this starts with attentive listening. This leads to authentic and unanticipated behavior, which is the hallmark of any great performance.

By focusing solely on listening, you anchor yourself in the moment. This eliminates hanging onto about what happened before or anticipate of what might come next, enabling you to work from “unanticipated moment to unanticipated moment”.

Being truthful is essential for actors, but striving to impress jeopardizes the truth. Attempting to captivate an audience might result in reproducing preconceived ideas rather than letting the scene unfold organically, or one might push to be emotional out of the fear of being boring.

The Meisner training sharpens your ability to distinguish the false from the truthful, ridding you from any imposed behavior and anticipation.

In order to truly listen to both your partner and what happens within yourself you must be open and vulnerable. Stanislavski asserted vulnerability is an actor’s most crucial tool. Meisner training aids you in shedding the defensive barriers and conditioning instilled by upbringing and societal expectations, enhancing your openness and receptivity continuously.