Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Francis Bacon One of the great mentors of my life, Mala Powers, made me acutely aware of the fact that with every dream fulfilled, there is a maintenance price. There are a whole set of activities that arise, tasks […]
It is pointless to enter into discussion with people who will accept only the validity of proofs that already lie within their personal mode of thought. Rudolf Steiner Am I accepting as valid only that which I already believe is true and dismissing all else? Will I truly only agree with someone who is in […]
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Abraham Lincoln Have you ever entered a space where you felt intimidated? Its interesting how we invite ourselves to feel uncomfortable in certain atmospheres. We humans will go to great lengths to feel comfortable in our surroundings and to avoid places that ” […]
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 […]
“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 […]
“…art: to give all you have. And what have you?” Michael Chekhov What is the all that YOU can give that a corpse can not? Continuing on from yesterday per my promise to address more about the meaning of “you” as a human and as an artist. THE END IS A MUST READ FOR ALL […]
“Compare the body without life and the body with life. Meditate on this. See how helpless a dead person is, then contrast it with a living person. You should feel a flow of joy because you are alive. Your body will feel full of life. That is what you must give from the stage. Your […]
“We must rejoice in the possession of our physical faculties. We must experience joy in the use of our hands, arms, body, etc. Without this appreciation and the realization of the body and its many possibilities, we cannot really perform as artists.” Michael Chekhov First question—do you possess physical faculties? My answer–duh! I do have […]
It doesn’t matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn’t matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years — we turn on the light and it is […]