| | Acting is one of the most creative and fulfilling things that I do. For part of my life I acted everyday and (usually) got paid for it. Then I took a kind of sabbatical to raise a family that pulled me away.
But I've started acting again and the thrill is as real as ever. Things that I once took for granted now touch me in ways deeper than I'd ever imagined. To act, to help others to feel, you've got to feel yourself -- at very deep levels. But, you've also got to make room in your instrument for new feelings to emerge - the feelings of your character. To do that you've got to partially empty yourself, to make room in the vessel for more.
This weekend I participated in an "Emo" acting workshop in Denver. We poured out our feelings. We found new feelings to experience. We found ways to instantly evoke the emotions we needed to make the essence of ourselves fill the presence of the characters we played. Saturday and Sunday, filled with acting.
Then on Monday was our usual Advanced Film Acting class and the juices were flowing still. Get up, put on your clothes, work on your acting.
Tuesday, at last, my first audition in several months. It went well enough to bring about:
Wednesday's call-back when I had the joy of working with and in front of another roomful of acting. What joy, what delight, what fun.
Acting day is what it takes to act. Get up, put on your clothes, and make yourself a more creative actor.
What will you do tomorrow?
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