HOW DOES ONE APPROACH A NEW TECHNIQUE? And why on earth “are we so f@&^ing useless ?” Whenever we delve into the world of a new technique, be it M.Chekhov, S. Meisner, it doesn’t matter; you will fail…My advice?…do so gloriously! You ARE supposed to fail! …

The actor’s coach, Um…COUCH, I meant couch, yeah! Sorry, a Freudian slip. Oh boy, do you hear that? Do you hear that slight metallic sound? Heh! It’s the sound of a can of worms! Enjoy this small article on a HUGE subject! More and more teachers find it necessary to…

“The desperate need for coagulation.” In the world of alchemy, the precursor of science-based thinking, magic, and logic were intertwined. In the “golden bough” a book by anthropologist James George Frazer, one can see the history of magic, reason, religion, and science. It all starts with a need to “control”…

“Text is the enemy of the actor…” A famous teacher once said…. but a gentleman never tells who… Well ok Meisner said it! yeah, apparently I am not much of a gentleman… Let me be clear text IS YOUR FRIEND! And you know how it goes, introductions matter when you first meet someone. …

Ο Μιχαήλ Τσέχοφ μιλά για πέντε αρχές σε μια σειρά διαλέξεων που έδωσε σε ομάδα. ηθοποιών στο Χόλιγουντ το 1955. Οι ηθοποιοί πρέπει να εκπαιδεύσουν το σώμα τους μέσω της χρήσης ψυχοσωματικών ασκήσεων. Η τεχνική του Μιχαήλ Τσέχοφ αναζητά. την σύνδεση μεταξύ της εξωτερικής σωματικής κίνησης και του πώς αυτή…

A phenomena I see is the perpetual love for self in art instead of art for art sake. — Stanislavski said it best, when he called out “don’t love yourself in art, but the art inside you”, the problem was in all probability as prevalent then as it is now. I am not saying loving yourself is a bad thing, I am not saying an artist should be egoless…

I don’t only read acting books, even though people who know me best, know as a fact, that reading acting books is my main source of daily entertainment (yes I am boring) hey, I do other stuff too, you know…stuff that involves mostly uh… fuck it…reading. So to make a…

If you’ve read the article already and want just to read the update, please go toward the end search for “update” The article's title is uhm..strange?!… Nevertheless, I want to be honest….I do not care; What is the reason behind my indifference? Well, first and foremost, "fuck polite" (hey, Sandy…

FINDING YOUR SHADOW AS AN ARTIST There is a social construct, isn’t there, a social norm, a social bulldozer that wants to level out and iron out everything. And it does. We agreed years ago (unfortunately) to be half. We all chimed, smiled, and danced to a Monty Python like…