Michael Chekhov Technique DVD Workout with Lisa Dalton

$59.95

Here is some feed back from those who have used Lisa Dalton's Rock N Roll Workout!

Hi Lisa,
It was great to have the opportunity to speak with you last week. I am writing simply to continue to gush praises for Lisa Dalton's Rock 'n Roll Review of Michael Chekhov's Exercises for Inspired Performance. The first time I followed along with the other actors in the film guided by Lisa, I realized, about five minutes in, how rusty my imagination had become, how blunted my own acting seemed to me. But one exercise flows into the next, engaging movement and my full attention and by fifteen minutes in, somewhere while performing archetypal movements; pulling, pushing, gathering, I remembered what I love about acting. After a half an hour, I felt what it was to be a connected actor gifted with an array of choices to offer a character and after finishing the entire course of exercises I felt, I had truly played the scale of what is needed to be a well tuned instrument for a play, a director, a character.

These days when the rehearsal period very rarely has the time to explore how we actors can transform into our characters, I am so happy to have this session to work on changing rhythms, qualities, radiation and finding and moving with different centers and tempos. Of course I would love to study with Lisa and a group on a regular basis, but for the time I am with the Wyoming Shakespeare Festival Company where we have recently finished a great run of MACBETH. Even though I used Chekhov's technique to create the character of Lady Macbeth and I was happy with the results, when Rock 'n Roll came and I began to practice, allowing myself to be directed by Lisa, I discovered far more joy,versatility, lightness above all clarity. I am happy to have such a great teacher to practice with on a regular basis, given the fact the DVD is recorded, she won't change, but we are changing with every exercise.
I truly hope I am able to come to Texas in 2008 to study with you, or in Maine this coming summer.
Thank you so much for making this film available to us.
All the very best,
Diane _____
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