Acting students share their thoughts on their first day of Meisner training at EMAS – what struck them and how it compared to their expectations.
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Testimonials: Our Students’ Experience
At EMASLA, we’re determined to empower actors with the fundamental skills that make great actors.
Dante Ryan elaborates on how his training at EMAS helped him to identify and cultivate his emotions.
Brittany shares her unique experience of the Meisner Technique at EMAS.
Katie Bendi finds her emotional truth.
Meisner Monday : Putting it All Together: F**k the Text,Work off Your Partner
In today’s Meisner Monday video, students practice how to deal with strong tension with their partners.
Seventeenth Repetition Exercise: Careful with Your Crafting
This video reminds us that generalized emotion cannot be the goal of your crafting. Specificity and a direct understanding of the success or failure of what you are doing is the key. As Sandy always said “The foundation of acting is the reality of doing.”
3 Minute Meisner Monday: Working with the Given Circumstances
In this video students have added shared circumstances to the improvisation, where the person entering now has something they need from their partner. Elizabeth shows how important it is not to lose contact with your partner just because you have an objective.
3 Minute Meisner Monday: Emotional Preparation in Scene Work
The fifteenth video in our 3 Minute Meisner series, our students are encouraged to express their emote their lines as a genuine reaction to their partner and the scene. This is accomplished only through true vulnerability and openness, skills (qualities) that are honed through training and practice.
3 minute Meisner Mondays : Leave Yourself Alone
The fourteenth video in the series. Elizabeth talked about how fear and anger are intertwined,and how the delicate and fragile happy emotion would be popped up against. Students tried to perform such conflicts. Acting is not merely showing emotions,however. Watch Elizabeth giving advice right now.
3 MINUTE MEISNER MONDAYS: PART XIII OF THE REPETITION EXERCISE
The thirteenth video in a series of 3 minute segments of a Meisner class. The student tried to perform the trickiest emotion:Happy. How to bring the happy emotion to life through the somehow pedestrian actions is challenging.Watch Elizabeth giving advice right now.
Now Enrolling: Summer Meisner Intensive
The Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio (EMAS) has now opened registration for our 2018 Summer Meisner Intensive Class.
Located at our Hollywood studio, the Summer Intensive offers 3 classes per week over a 5 week period to give students an immersive introduction to the philosophies and structure of Meisner-based training.
At the heart of the Meisner Technique is a tangible, step-by-step approach to acting training with each exercise building on the last. Not only does this give actors a dependable process to draw on but, ultimately, actors are taught to work truthfully, employing their genuine impulses and talent rather than working intellectually.
Our Summer Intensive course guides students through the beginning steps of the Meisner Technique in just over a month. Classes meet three days a week for three hours at a time. Sessions are scheduled both in the morning and in the evening to avoid scheduling conflicts. We’re invested in your development as an actor and, as such, attendance is mandatory.
Summer Meisner Intensive Info:
June 25 – July 31, 2018
5 weeks/3 classes a week
Session A: Mon, Wed, Sat at 10:00AM
Session B: Tues & Thurs at 7:00PM, Sat at 2:00PM
Interviews for the Summer Intensive are ongoing. There is no deadline, however, once classes are full we will continue to hold interviews for a wait list. The earlier you interview, the more likely there will be availability for a spot in a class.
In order to schedule your interview, please apply on our registration page. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email us or call the studio at 323-528-6280.
More information about the Meisner Technique can be found on our Meisner Class Page or on our Blog.
Meisner Mondays Part 10: Beginning a Scene in an Emotional State
In this installment of the Meisner Monday’s video series, Elizabeth prepares her students to find the emotional states that actors are required to bring to scenes, often from minute one.
