I have just read a most inspiring man's most inspiring words on the voice and the role of voice trainers in the world. It has made me feel so proud that I am working in the field that I am, that I have the ability and the inclination to assist people to find their "original voices". This document is 9 pages, and it is the easiest 9 pages I have ever read so I encourage everyone who is reading this one paragraph, to do the same! Truly inspiring, truly wonderful.
http://lessacinstitute.com/vasta_address.pdf
Aimee Blesing - Voice & Acting Teacher
About Me
- Aimee Blesing
- Dover, New Hampshire, United States
- Currently living in New Hampshire and teaching Acting, Voice & Movement and Dialect coaching at the University of New Hampshire. I am an actor, director, voice & dialect coach and a newly Certified Trainer of the Lessac Kinesensic Voice & Movement Training.
QUOTES OF NOTE
"Don't envy a good voice - You have one!" Arthur Lessac
"To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with the face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver... Too serious, you make you sick. You can calling the good energy with a smile."
- from 'eat pray love', Elizabeth Gilbert
An actor should strive to be alive to all that he can imagine possible. Such an actor is generated by an impulse toward an inner unity, as well as by the most intimate contacts he makes outside himself. When we as actors are performing, we as persons are also present and the performance is a testimony of ourselves. Each role, each work, each performance changes us as persons. The actor doesn't start out with answers about living - but with questions about experience. Later, as the actor advances through the progress of the work, the person is transformed. Through the working process which he himself guides, the actor recreates himself.
Nothing less.
- Joseph Chaikin, 1972
Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.
Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
"To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with the face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver... Too serious, you make you sick. You can calling the good energy with a smile."
- from 'eat pray love', Elizabeth Gilbert
An actor should strive to be alive to all that he can imagine possible. Such an actor is generated by an impulse toward an inner unity, as well as by the most intimate contacts he makes outside himself. When we as actors are performing, we as persons are also present and the performance is a testimony of ourselves. Each role, each work, each performance changes us as persons. The actor doesn't start out with answers about living - but with questions about experience. Later, as the actor advances through the progress of the work, the person is transformed. Through the working process which he himself guides, the actor recreates himself.
Nothing less.
- Joseph Chaikin, 1972
Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.
Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
Friday, August 14, 2009
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