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Six Week Summer Intensive Begins Soon
Acting summer intensives in NYC are a dime a dozen. If you are in New York or heading there for the summer, you can sign up for a fun two months of theater games and pats on the back. You will finish not knowing a thing about the craft of acting, nor possess any understanding of the art form. If you are interested in truly doing something substantial with your summer, and want to spend your money wisely you must first know what you want, and then do your due diligence to seek it out.
To find a Six-Week Summer Meisner Intensive that will accurately and passionately teach you the first two months of the Meisner Technique, you should be clear about what to look for. The complete progression of Meisner training, if taught properly, takes a full two years to implement. What starts with simple repetition evolves over first year into a very deep, and sophisticated improvisational exercise that encompasses all the fundamentals of acting. If you are seriously interested in becoming an exceptional actor, and are trying to discover what true professional actor training is, then finding a six-week Meisner summer intensive will answer many questions.
Sanford Meisner was a member of the Group Theater of the 1930’s, whose company members included some of the most influential actors and artists of the 20th century: Stella Adler, Elia Kazan, Clifford Odets, Lee Strasberg, and Harold Clurman to name just a few. Meisner came to believe that Strasberg’s approach to actor training (known as the Method) was not particularly healthy or creative. He did not agree that using your own past life experiences to manipulate yourself emotionally was necessary to an actor’s craft. In 1935 Sandy joined the faculty of the Neighborhood Playhouse and over the next many decades created what is now known as the Meisner Technique, one of the greatest ways to instill fundamental craft and technique into an actor.
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