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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Becoming Effortless by Marcia Polas

Effort. Webster’s defines effort as “work done by the mind or body: energy used to do something.” I spend more time than you can imagine thinking about, analyzing, and trying to minimi…

SOURCE: 2AMT at 10:12AM
Monday, August 24, 2015

Rethinking The Actor’s Instrument: It Shouldn’t Hurt by Marcia Polas

We are not doing a great job of teaching our actors to care for their instruments properly. This is clear to me when I read (regularly) about an actor in a particularly difficult physical ro…

SOURCE: 2AMT at 11:13AM
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Managing Audition Anxiety: Tangible Practices by Marcia Polas

Actors are not alone in needing to manage nerves, but compared to most professions, yours is unique in terms of how frequently you are placed in nerve inducing situations in order to get the…

SOURCE: 2AMT at 09:56PM
Thursday, October 30, 2014

The Show Must Go On: Working When Sick by Marcia Polas

The 2014-15 theatre season is underway, causing me, desperately, to try not to fret over photos of strangers in first table reads as they begin to train their instruments to say those words …

SOURCE: 2AMT at 12:09PM
Friday, October 10, 2014

Technology and The Actor’s Instrument: Part Two by Marcia Polas

SOLVING THE PROBLEM AND REPAIRING THE DAMAGE As a Pilates teacher/movement consultant who specializes in how clients move/behave within their own environments, I spend a lot of time out of m…

SOURCE: 2AMT at 04:17PM
Thursday, October 2, 2014

Technology and The Actor’s Instrument: Part One by Marcia Polas

IDENTIFYING THE ISSUE AND ADDRESSING THE REPERCUSSIONS What is required of your body to do your job? As an actor, specifically a stage actor, the better question is what isn’t required of …

SOURCE: 2AMT at 02:00PM

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