EMAS faculty member, Diana Jelinek shares what studying Shakespeare means to her and how it is relevant to the modern student of the Meisner Technique.
Read more about our upcoming LA Shakespeare classes.
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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.
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.
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.
3 minute Meisner Mondays: Part IX of The Repetition Exercise
The ninth video in the series. How an actor should prepare for his/her role? Elizabeth encourages students to explore their personal fantasy lives. Some people act from a point of power, some out of joy or sexual desire – it’s all about your personal fantasy life.
3 minute Meisner Mondays: Part VIII of The Repetition Exercise
The eighth video in the series. Repetition is changed by improvisation on the text. We continue into the second trial.
