Doing Nothing

Michael Caine is a wonderful acting coach, and there are quite a few clips from some of his masterclasses on YouTube.  Here is one of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHfz7_YjRww

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End of Term 1, and the only way is up!

Today, we bade farewell to Sandra, wishing her joy and luck and much good humming and ah-ing in her new adventure in Sydney. Our final class before the Easter break, and there was a beautiful energy in the sounds that flowed through […]

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Left Brain : Right Brain

Here is a fascinating talk by a brain researcher, Jill Bolte Taylor, which has a wonderful description of the differences between left and right brain hemispheres, and their function, and ways of being.  This relates to our discussion of ‘self’ this afternoon […]

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The Value of Warming Up

The new Voice Class at QUT (Creative Industries) began yesterday, with a bunch of very committed young actors. We worked our way through the Mini-Mini vocal warm-up, addressing posture, the basics of the breathing process, and general principles of acting to be […]

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