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Jan. 27th, 2009 04:10 pmThis is why I like Ki's acting class:
She gives us liberty to indulge. No, she insists we indulge, that we spend time, time, time on moments in the scene, that we don't let the text run us but rather rein the text to our control & then make the scene twice as long by doing what she calls "larding it up!" Make it fatty. Give it moments of reaction and action, taste/smell/hear/feel the sense memory of the moment, pause before you say that next line. Indulge. She says she has never, ever, had to tell someone in her class that they are doing it too much.
I NEED this. I am a pull-back actor, a small-moment actor, far too much to be good for me. It's hard for me to let go, it always has been; I tend to rationalize everything--which is good--but neglect the lardy fatty emotional stuff--which is not so good. I know she'll pull me back if I go too far (though frankly if you combine my tendency to not let go with her tendency to loooove the lard, I doubt this will ever happen). Induuullllge.....yeah. :)
Plus this is such a good scene for it! I am stuck in one role too much right now, so I need to work on branching Elena out--she is not guarded all the time. & that opening monologue has so much potential for larding! All these moments where she's talking about Astrov--"aloof--engaged--diffident--arrogant"...I started working through the monologue today in class & taking notes; what triggers this? What sense memory is this like? "Arrogant" is a tart raspberry, "engaged" is smooth chocolate cream, "that little frisson" is ice down my back on a hot summer day.... (this scene is hot, you know, & it's half my job to make it so; this has got to be the ultimate of want/can't have). Rrrr. I love this.
She gives us liberty to indulge. No, she insists we indulge, that we spend time, time, time on moments in the scene, that we don't let the text run us but rather rein the text to our control & then make the scene twice as long by doing what she calls "larding it up!" Make it fatty. Give it moments of reaction and action, taste/smell/hear/feel the sense memory of the moment, pause before you say that next line. Indulge. She says she has never, ever, had to tell someone in her class that they are doing it too much.
I NEED this. I am a pull-back actor, a small-moment actor, far too much to be good for me. It's hard for me to let go, it always has been; I tend to rationalize everything--which is good--but neglect the lardy fatty emotional stuff--which is not so good. I know she'll pull me back if I go too far (though frankly if you combine my tendency to not let go with her tendency to loooove the lard, I doubt this will ever happen). Induuullllge.....yeah. :)
Plus this is such a good scene for it! I am stuck in one role too much right now, so I need to work on branching Elena out--she is not guarded all the time. & that opening monologue has so much potential for larding! All these moments where she's talking about Astrov--"aloof--engaged--diffident--arrogant"...I started working through the monologue today in class & taking notes; what triggers this? What sense memory is this like? "Arrogant" is a tart raspberry, "engaged" is smooth chocolate cream, "that little frisson" is ice down my back on a hot summer day.... (this scene is hot, you know, & it's half my job to make it so; this has got to be the ultimate of want/can't have). Rrrr. I love this.
