Catching Up

November 11, 2006 by Dennis Baker 

So much has been going on in the last couple of months and it has been hard to get the time into to blog. Below is my attempt to catch up on all that is going on.

Weekend Retreat
The retreat went well. I am still not sure what we fully got out of it. The lodge was amazing and it was a good chance to be with my classmates out side of the classroom. Our main work was done with Lenard Petit. We explored relationships through the physical. We also had the chance to explore some of Lloyd’s movement. Overall it was a time to sink deeper into who we are as a group.

Classes
Our midterms have passed and my review was at expected. The teachers met together and then we sat down with Deborah on an individual basis. My speech is my biggest problem (which I knew). Other than that she said I was doing well in acting class. My moment-to-moment work was fine and I now needed to begin to sink into it. I am currently still trying to wrap my head what that means. She also complimented me saying that they normally do not accept students with previous Meisner experience and that she enjoyed the fact that I am open in the class. I expressed my desire to start on a fresh page with no assumptions about the work and that I was glad that showed through.

It seems in acting class we are hitting a wall. We are suppose to create a private space on stage where we do an activity that is difficult, has meaning, and has to be done in a short amount of time. When everyone goes up there seems to be parts of those components missing. The work is not living in us truthfully and therefore our moment-to-moment work is not clear. Our assignment for Wednesday is to tighten this elements up and I am not sure quite how to do that yet.

The next two Mondays in acting class we will be working on our monologues for the general auditions coming up. The MFA I actors are eligible to audition for shows beginning in the second semester. The process works by performing a monologue in front of all the directors and then when each show is ready to audition the director calls in the actors they want to see. I have two contemporary monologues I could perform, I will know more after Monday which one I will do. The first show of next season the “The Country Wife”, a Restoration comedy. Since it is a period piece with specific speech and movement, we as first years will probably not be in the show as we learn period speech and movement in our second year.

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  1. Weekend Retreat
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