Day: November 12, 2011

Are you a Doll or a Puppet?

When the actor takes part in any mob or crowd scene, he is inclined to lose his indivduality and feel himself engulfed in the group of people around him -“absorbed” in it, as it were.  As a consequence of such a wrong attitude, the actor begins alone to act as if he were the whole […]

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An Element of Motion

“They realized that while they were in states of heightened awareness, their bodies moved involuntarily in certain ways, and that those certain ways were indeed the cause of that unusual sensation of physical and mental plenitude.”    Carlos Castenadas In my early pursuit of peak performance, I understood as an athlete, artist, performer that my body required […]

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