Dee's class
In last night's class, Dee paired each actor up with an actress, then had us pick one scene from several on a table, without reading it, just by being attracted to it. My scene partner was Jenn, a blonde actress who's super-talented and also very in touch with energies and theories Dee talks about. We picked a scene named, "Marmalade" which, it turns out, is kind of a light-hearted, borderline comedic scene with some real moments strewn about. I feel much more comfortable with drama, but Dee has been nurturing my comedic side in order to flesh the skills out more. Anyway, this seemed a great scene to have attracted.Jenn's method is a bit different than most in the class as she doesn't like to rehearse the scene at all. Dee stresses not over-reading, over-blocking or over-rehearsing a scene, but to just play the moments spontaneously and from a real place. The theory is, that if you "are" the character, all the reactions/emotions/beats will come from a genuine place and you won't need to over-rehearse it. Jenn takes this to another level and she doesn't like any rehearsal. I generally like to at least read through the scene once or twice with my scene partner in order to loosely know what we're doing once we're on stage, but I thought this would be a good exercise for me so went with it.
The scene went over really well and I just went for whatever felt right in the moment, which included crawling on the floor under a table looking for a cat, making chicken noises, tearing off my jacket as if I was about to brawl and kissing Jenn on the mouth multiple times. It was great! I felt like I rushed it a bit and Dee had some pointers for both Jenn and I as we're going to be taping the scene to watch next week, but all-in-all I felt really good about it.
Dee also must've picked up on my vibe that I'm ready to leave my agent as she tested me (using a technique called "kinesiology" or "muscle testing") to see if this was in my best interest. Turns out it was, which I knew, but was very happy to have Dee test that out of me as she has been one of the biggest proponents of me staying with my agent.
I'm revitalized again after that class last night. Wish I was holding this energy when I was writing the letter to Angel City Talent yesterday. I'm afraid I might have come off as too needy.
Ah, well. I feel like things are starting to move again. And since things have felt like they've been stuck in cement over the past 11 months, it feels gooOooooOood.
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