I've been thinking about the original question in this
whole acting thread, which was (as I understood it):
Why are some singers good on stage and others just
look fake?
Perhaps it has to do with a lack of
self-consciousness? A certain amount of forgetting
what you look like and thinking about what your
character looks like -- letting go of your own ego and
instead pouring all your energy through the character,
making yourself an instrument rather than retaining a
bunch of self-consciousness. I've seen those poor
singers, who are doing everything "right," in terms of
gestures and facial expressions, and yet they just
seem a little not-real, unconvincing; you never forget
that it's XXYY pretending to be Violetta up there...
But I am greatly enjoying the direction the thread is
taking -- what makes a good actor and how do you learn
those skills -- so let's keep going in both
directions.
Isabelle B.
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Isabelle Bracamonte
San Francisco, CA
ibracamonte@y...
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