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Meisner
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I’m a professional actor and have already taken many training courses. Should I join a group with a higher level?: The levels of the various groups refer only to the Meisner technique. Even professional actors who have undergone extensive training in other acting methods will have to “start from scratch” for the duration of this training. In retrospect, they’ll be able to make links with their previous experiences, both on stage and in other areas of their lives, but to begin with, it’s more a question of “de-doing” reflex mechanisms, including acting mechanisms. We therefore always start this technique at level 1, and experience has shown that overdoing it is counter-productive for the actor.<\/p>\n
I’ve already studied the Meisner technique specifically at another school. Do I need to join a higher-level group? Actors who have already followed Meisner technique training courses (several workshops or several months of regular classes), can contact us directly to set up a personalized course. Here again, starting from level 1 is always a good choice, but in exceptional cases bridges can be established based on solid practice of a particular approach to the technique. In such cases, you’ll need to make sure that complementary practices and links with other tools are practiced outside the classroom in order to be mastered.<\/p>\n
Are there any pre-requisites to register? I’ve never taken an acting course: No, complete beginners are welcome and sometimes progress very quickly. We will start with simple, concrete exercises before moving on to the text, making the transition gradually and precisely at each foundational stage of the work. It will never be a question of “playing” in the traditional sense.<\/p>\n
Are there any pre-requisites to register? I don’t want to end up with amateurs and want to join a selective training program: Many schools set up barriers to entry, sometimes artificially and with the aim of making their training programs selective and therefore attractive; sometimes to avoid ending up with inexperienced actors who are less at ease with working on stage or on a set, and with acting directions. We are constantly researching and developing our programs and use powerful and individualized tools. We are therefore happy to work with any person who is sincerely motivated and open to this practice, to be able to accompany them throughout their progression, taking into account their individual qualities and problems. Beginners” actors who have not been polluted by traditional acting methods sometimes evolve even faster in this work, where you don’t “play” and practice each successive exercise by being yourself. That said, we can’t take everyone and sometimes have to make a selection, trying to give priority to those students whose experience tells us they have the most to learn from this work. Communication tools (CV, demo tape…) are welcome, if only to give you occasional feedback on them, in the spirit of our career coaching program.<\/p>\n
What’s the difference between the Meisner technique and the Actors Studio? or Lee Strasberg and method acting? Sanford Meisner was part of the original group that formed the Actors Studio, which presented different approaches to acting in an open, non-sectarian way. When Elia Kazan left for Los Angeles 4 years later, Lee Strasberg, who had initially been excluded due to professional differences, joined and became head of the Actors Studio, which would later become associated with him and “the method”, representing the beginnings of Stanislavski’s work. This historically partial and questionable approach to acting (especially psychologically) will be promoted retrospectively as having caused the success of many actors, who sometimes only went through the Actors Studio as free listeners, or didn’t particularly specialize in Lee Strasberg’s method. Sanford Meisner and Stella Adler looked at the evolution of Stanislavski’s work right up to the end, including the advanced work on imagination, wary of the disastrous and counter-productive impact of Lee Strasberg’s “sensory memory” (quickly abandoned by Stanislavski) or “affective memory”.<\/p>\n
My former teacher said he was the only one to teach the “real” Meisner technique. Is this true? Sanford Meisner continued to develop his approach throughout his life, with a certain pragmatism and a concern for concrete effectiveness. He therefore reworked his exercises throughout his career, sometimes going back on what he had previously developed, according to the results and practice of his students. For this reason, he refused to document his work in general, and only agreed to publish one incomplete book (“On Acting”), and to let some of his classes be filmed. He opposed the publication of books about his approach, and was aware that it would be misused by teachers who cared little for his work or his principles, as was already the case before his death. Today, his brilliant exercises continue to be taught in very different ways, often through ignorance, sometimes through conscious adaptation, and we are witnessing the emergence of not one but many “Meisner techniques”. At Paris Meisner Studio, we’ve been researching this technique, its history and its links with other, better-known and documented related fields, for 8 years. We have also employed teachers who knew Meisner directly, including at the end of his life, and have developed the “Meisner & systemic coaching” program to meet students’ needs for coherent and complementary approaches, focusing in particular on those that are the most psychologically sound and long-lasting, the most useful in terms of professional working conditions, and the most faithful to the founding principles of this beautiful technique.<\/p>\n
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Hypnosis
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I saw that hypnosis was mentioned in the Meisner & Systemic Coaching program. Will I be hypnotized during the course?: No, there is no “hypnosis session” as such during the course. Links are made with hypnotic mechanisms, in the Ericksonian sense of the term, to understand what is hypnotic in the exercises and accelerate learning. For example, any daydreaming-type “emotional preparation” exercise is hypnotic, and developing certain simple reflexes can help you dive more deeply into these experiences.<\/p>\n
However, in addition to the Meisner courses, we offer individual sessions using Ericksonian hypnosis, among other things, as an option for those who wish to go further or reinforce their practice.<\/p>\n
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