SITI Day 2
SITI day 2
Category: Jobs, Work, Careers
Suzuki this morning with Aikiko
Face into your discomfort. Don't shy away. Look it in the eye and conquer it. Getting on stage is already a scary thing, conquering that is noble. Acting is a noble thing and was a true art in Japan. Reclaim the heroic mantle. First face into your discomfort and win
Josh and I met Bruce Myers, One of Peter Brooks longtime actors, at Peter Brooks' Hamlet in Chicago and Josh, being the braver of the two of us, went up and asked him a question. He asked "Mr Myers, what advice would you give to a young actor as they go forth in the world?" and without hesitation Bruce Myers said "Put on your armor. No knight or samurai warrior dared step on the battlefield without their armor, why would you step on stage without yours. The stage is your battlefield, your training and preparation is your armor."
What is 100%? Are you giving 100% or merely what is passable? If you can give 100% why not? This comes out of my not being able to grasp the full weight shift needed for balance in Suzuki. But, of course it speaks to acting and all of life. What is 100% Are you giving it?
Find elegance and grace in your work
When you make a mistake, or lose balance, you have a choice: Drop out and let the world know, or re-commit as fast as you can with the aforementioned grace.
Then had Viewpoints with Bondo
Working up to Open Viewpoints, starting at the beginning with Sun Salutations and floor exercises, 12-6-4, and opening awareness with partnered triangles.
How do you keep your energy up? Your tempo? Interest. Just as in Suzuki, the way you keep from falling asleep is interest, losing tempo- interest, losing energy- interest.
Focus on others, keep them in your focus and off yourself. When in pain or feeling bad focus on the other and you will forget yourself.
My feet hurt worse from Viewpoints than in Suzuki
I don't understand people who leave Viewpoints, or especially Suzuki, and run outside to have a cigarette. I just don't get it.
The food is good here. Or maybe my body is needing nourishment.
Composition class with Leon
Creating with the language of theatre
D.W.Griffiths invented montage, Eisentein developed it. Go watch The Battleship Potemkin
Cause and effect in the audience by lining up images in a certain way.
Patterns, not linear narrative. Don't spoon feed an audience.
Directing is more like waiting tables. Don't serve desert at the main course, does the audience need more water, etc.
Slow down time
Directors direct the play, actors direct the role
Jo Ha Kyu Beginning middle end Never have to much Kyu in you Jo, or to much Ha in your Kyu
Circular structures
Make the audience active, let the action continue in their mind, don't always give it to them
Ambiguity is Ok if it leads to a question, not if it leads to ambivalence
Diagonals are powerful because they contain Vertical and Horizontal, Time and space
Play with the audiences perspective, like a movie camera
Play with all the senses
Change what is recognizable
Relationships define the world, we will buy the new world if you define the relationship as being of that world.
Take care of each other. Here's to a better future.
Category: Jobs, Work, Careers
Suzuki this morning with Aikiko
Face into your discomfort. Don't shy away. Look it in the eye and conquer it. Getting on stage is already a scary thing, conquering that is noble. Acting is a noble thing and was a true art in Japan. Reclaim the heroic mantle. First face into your discomfort and win
Josh and I met Bruce Myers, One of Peter Brooks longtime actors, at Peter Brooks' Hamlet in Chicago and Josh, being the braver of the two of us, went up and asked him a question. He asked "Mr Myers, what advice would you give to a young actor as they go forth in the world?" and without hesitation Bruce Myers said "Put on your armor. No knight or samurai warrior dared step on the battlefield without their armor, why would you step on stage without yours. The stage is your battlefield, your training and preparation is your armor."
What is 100%? Are you giving 100% or merely what is passable? If you can give 100% why not? This comes out of my not being able to grasp the full weight shift needed for balance in Suzuki. But, of course it speaks to acting and all of life. What is 100% Are you giving it?
Find elegance and grace in your work
When you make a mistake, or lose balance, you have a choice: Drop out and let the world know, or re-commit as fast as you can with the aforementioned grace.
Then had Viewpoints with Bondo
Working up to Open Viewpoints, starting at the beginning with Sun Salutations and floor exercises, 12-6-4, and opening awareness with partnered triangles.
How do you keep your energy up? Your tempo? Interest. Just as in Suzuki, the way you keep from falling asleep is interest, losing tempo- interest, losing energy- interest.
Focus on others, keep them in your focus and off yourself. When in pain or feeling bad focus on the other and you will forget yourself.
My feet hurt worse from Viewpoints than in Suzuki
I don't understand people who leave Viewpoints, or especially Suzuki, and run outside to have a cigarette. I just don't get it.
The food is good here. Or maybe my body is needing nourishment.
Composition class with Leon
Creating with the language of theatre
D.W.Griffiths invented montage, Eisentein developed it. Go watch The Battleship Potemkin
Cause and effect in the audience by lining up images in a certain way.
Patterns, not linear narrative. Don't spoon feed an audience.
Directing is more like waiting tables. Don't serve desert at the main course, does the audience need more water, etc.
Slow down time
Directors direct the play, actors direct the role
Jo Ha Kyu Beginning middle end Never have to much Kyu in you Jo, or to much Ha in your Kyu
Circular structures
Make the audience active, let the action continue in their mind, don't always give it to them
Ambiguity is Ok if it leads to a question, not if it leads to ambivalence
Diagonals are powerful because they contain Vertical and Horizontal, Time and space
Play with the audiences perspective, like a movie camera
Play with all the senses
Change what is recognizable
Relationships define the world, we will buy the new world if you define the relationship as being of that world.
Take care of each other. Here's to a better future.
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