A Path to Powerful Organic Acting
Bringing the Spirit of Michael Chekhov into the 21st Century!
Powerful Organic
Acting
In 11 minutes a day, you can be a POA!
Use POA Journal Form to perform this exercise.
A
Practicing Observant Artist is the first level one must achieve to enter
the path of the Powerful Organic Actor. These guidelines for your Homeplay
are for those who wish to master the Chekhov Technique in pursuit of
being a POA!
Our
goal is to train our imagination and our body to inspire each other and
to cultivate the instinctive ability to compose art.
If
you commit to doing this for one year, you will attain a level of mastery
that will be with you for life. Yes, you may need a refresher here and
there, or perhaps additional practice in a certain style that is not
included in your year of dedication. However, the impact that a one-year
commitment will have on your artistic nature will be interwoven into
your instincts and intuition throughout your life.
When
we learn new ideas, some may be very challenging to our current way of
thinking and experiencing the world.
The
following guidelines are developed with the intent to:
a.
Convince our every day mind that these concepts indeed have value to
us as artists.
b.
Train our bodies and voices to reflect images
c.
Build a toolbox of resources for getting great images that we can then
reflect
d.
Gain the most rapid and deepest understanding of these ideas so that
we can eventually use them instinctively and unconsciously
e.
Awaken our life of continuous artistry
Once
each week, take a moment to plan the play dates with your self.
Look
at the chart for inspired acting and select topics for the next 5 or
6 days.
Write
it in your calendar and on your POA Journal Sheets.
For
Example:
On
Monday pick Expansion/Contraction,
Tuesday:
Molding
Wed:
Flowing/Floating
Thursday:
Flying
Friday:
Radiating
Saturday:
Ideal Artistic Center
Sunday:
Celebrate your dedication!
Practice
the Physical Movements with the Images for 5 minutes each day.
Use Lisa Dalton's DVD: The Rock 'n Roll Review of Michael Chekhov's Psychophysical
Techniques if you would like partners to accompany your workout.
Observe
for one minute 3 times during the day (once in morning, once midday
and once in the evening) you or someone or something else that is doing/expressing
the tool.
For
example- notice how you eat breakfast in terms of contracting or expanding.
Notice co-workers or servers at lunch. Notice the traffic at rush hour,
the person walking across the street. Observe the plants on the side
of the road, something on TV in terms of the tool you are playing with
today.
Apply
for one minute 3 times during the day same as the observing-consciously
choose to brush your teeth contracted and end expanded, mold your breakfast
or fly up to change the channel at night.
One
year from the day you commit to this, you will have attained a level
of mastery that will last a lifetime. This will be a springboard to the
fulfillment of your Piece Of AS-pirations! Eventually, if you want it
to, POA will mean Prepare Oscar Acceptance!
Where
ever possible, if you can make written notes in a journal, the impression
these play dates have on you will strengthen. When ever you share your
observation and experience with someone in writing or spoken, you also
deepen the experience. You are welcome to email me any observations
you like. When you do, please let me know if I may quote you for future
publication on good news site or in books, etc.
Remember to include on your tool chart The Three Major Laws of Composition (TPT)
Triplicity -
things come in threes, beginning-middle-end,
Polarity -
law of opposites, duality, contrast, yin-yang
Transformation -
law of change =the one sure thing in life, I Ching
Use Lisa Dalton's PDF POA Journal Form to simplify your record keeping.