"Dirty Acting" Acting Intensive Workshop
Dirty Acting is acting on impulse in the now while being compelled to respond from pure awareness with intense looking and listening. Acting comes from necessity in the moment where behavior happens that is not behavior that is planned.
Dirty Acting works on impulse, eliminating self-consciousness and destructive concerns about audience judgment, habit patterns, obligations to text, obligations to audience, lying and attempting to give artificial CPR for a dying scene. Eliminating these obligations actually means risking leaving frame or walking off stage before the written scene is over! Only what is true in the moment has importance.
Each rehearsal, each performance becomes a true experiment, an improv. Intense looking and listening is also the secret to great acting for the camera, including and especially reaction shots.
"If we actors could only be like the creatures of the forest whose very lives depend upon fully looking and listening." - Geraldine Page
Dirty Acting is acting on impulse in the now while being compelled to respond from pure awareness with intense looking and listening. Acting comes from necessity in the moment where behavior happens that is not behavior that is planned.
Dirty Acting works on impulse, eliminating self-consciousness and destructive concerns about audience judgment, habit patterns, obligations to text, obligations to audience, lying and attempting to give artificial CPR for a dying scene. Eliminating these obligations actually means risking leaving frame or walking off stage before the written scene is over! Only what is true in the moment has importance.
Each rehearsal, each performance becomes a true experiment, an improv. Intense looking and listening is also the secret to great acting for the camera, including and especially reaction shots.
"If we actors could only be like the creatures of the forest whose very lives depend upon fully looking and listening." - Geraldine Page
