16/03/09 - The actor´s training

Our class today, was a theorical one. I´ve learnt that an actor trains its imagination. He puts his imagination un practice. It also trains to focus on something. An actor needs to train with his body and mind, to discover, to pay attention and finally to be ready full of energy.

I´ve learnt that training never ends. It is needed to improve, to learn and to get better. The warm-up is necessary to prepare yourself to train. It´s when you get your body ready to perform or to train. The rehearsal is the moment to explode what you have learnt in the training. There are two ways to rehearse:

• Individual: at home, alone, trying all possibilities. The director must choose from your proposals.
• Group: On stage, when you put in practice all your rehearsed possibilities.

An actor´s concentration and mood are very important for training. You have to forget about the outside world.

I´ve also learnt that when you warm up you have to focus on your voice and body. I usually start with the body but today I´ve realized it´s better to start with the voice and then the body.

The Starting Points - to have a proper warm up

1. Breathing
2. Centre-the main engine of your body. It´s were you put all the strenght. Everything starts from the centre.
3. Column-It is the guide for all your movements of your body.

Finally, I´ve dicovered that I didn´t know a lot about these simple things about acting. Having now all this information very clear, could I improve my way of acting and have different variations and not repeat always the same?