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thedarksiren2but my opera workshop prof gave it to us. It's a chapter on "Creating the energy" as a singer-performer/ actor, and, for whatever reason, it feels relevent somehow at this very moment:
All human energies interrelate, of course, and there is an inevitable relationship between the release of physical and emotional energies and the release of vocal energies.
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...emotional energy must grow from a natural base, but it must be projected by whatever means are necessary, no matter how artificial those means may seem at first. The personal experience must be communicated in a public place.
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...to be more than one's self, one must first be firmly grounded in one's self.
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One cannot soar without a firm base from which to depart, but if one never leaves the base, one is just as unlikely to soar.
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The angry man does not modify his voice, it happens by itself.
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...when performers release the tension blocks they have used to cope with emotion, this affects not only their performance lives but their personal lives as well. They find themselves releasing physical tension in their lives in the same way as in performance, and feeling emotions with new intensity in life as well as in performance. Ultimately, the person and the performer are inseparable.
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And it is the holding of tension that is the problem, not the initial energy which, for example, causes one to slam the fist into the palm; only if the impacting fist is held does the gesture become tense and become a problem. Readiness, then, and not tension, is the useful response to high emotion in both life and performance.
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The true skill of the singer-actor lies not in the ability to ask why something must be done but in the ability to make sense of it. Whether one agrees with the concept is immaterial; how to make it work for one's self and for the audience is the point.
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one cannot make oneself feel an emotion; an emotion is aroused in a person because of circumstances.
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...lure them with sensory stimuli
...colored by the emotional impulses...
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~*~*~*~*~
...emotional energy must grow from a natural base, but it must be projected by whatever means are necessary, no matter how artificial those means may seem at first. The personal experience must be communicated in a public place.
~*~*~*~*~
...to be more than one's self, one must first be firmly grounded in one's self.
~*~*~*~*~
One cannot soar without a firm base from which to depart, but if one never leaves the base, one is just as unlikely to soar.
~*~*~*~*~
The angry man does not modify his voice, it happens by itself.
~*~*~*~*~
...when performers release the tension blocks they have used to cope with emotion, this affects not only their performance lives but their personal lives as well. They find themselves releasing physical tension in their lives in the same way as in performance, and feeling emotions with new intensity in life as well as in performance. Ultimately, the person and the performer are inseparable.
~*~*~*~*~
And it is the holding of tension that is the problem, not the initial energy which, for example, causes one to slam the fist into the palm; only if the impacting fist is held does the gesture become tense and become a problem. Readiness, then, and not tension, is the useful response to high emotion in both life and performance.
~*~*~*~*~
The true skill of the singer-actor lies not in the ability to ask why something must be done but in the ability to make sense of it. Whether one agrees with the concept is immaterial; how to make it work for one's self and for the audience is the point.
~*~*~*~*~
one cannot make oneself feel an emotion; an emotion is aroused in a person because of circumstances.
~*~*~*~*~
...lure them with sensory stimuli
...colored by the emotional impulses...
.drow
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Date: 2004-09-14 08:20 pm (UTC)That is so true!! I'm glad it's not just me who feels like that. Sometimes I feel that rush in life that I do on stage and I don't know how to deal with it. Better to just let it happen, I guess.
I like these quotes - thanks for sharing.
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Date: 2004-09-16 09:27 pm (UTC)~;D
my pleasure...
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Date: 2004-09-14 11:39 pm (UTC)- George Burns
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Date: 2004-09-16 09:27 pm (UTC)