A movement teacher can help you forever capture the attention of your audience

As a movement teacher, one of the first things I notice about my students is their tension and stress signals, as these are the habits that will need to be corrected when teaching movement for actors. My goal is to nurture a relaxed actor who is pleasant to work with and is able to walk confidently and pleasantly into an audition room. Imagine trying to talk to and work with someone who is sitting in a defensive posture, with brown furrowed and limbs crossed. Wouldn't you much rather converse with someone who has an easy smile, is physically relaxed, and is generally at ease?

This is true throughout your acting career, not just in the casting room. When we see a performance, we want to be able to live through the actor. A tense performance will do nothing but leave us feeling tense. However, when an actor is able to let go of the tension and give a relaxed performance, the audience is far more likely to relate to the character and the story. The experience can therefore be a more empathetic one. This release could very well be what also gives the actor a presence on stage as well. While some may be lucky enough to be born with an undeniable presence, not all of us are that lucky. We want to see people truly experience something on stage, without being distracted by the tension. Not to mention that a tense actor is far less likely to catch our eye.



Getting a student to let go of these habits can be difficult for any acting coach. Each of us has tension patterns that we've developed throughout our lives. It's not something that we are born with, of course; children are as relaxed and free as can be. Their movement is uninhibited. They are free of cares and tension. An important part of learning movement is understanding that tension is a result of our need to shield ourselves from judgement. The actor's job, however, is to show the human condition in all of its frailty on a stage in front of hundreds of people. In life, situations like this would be bound to cause tension. This makes movement training so crucial.



The acting teacher must help the actor to understand his tension patterns and to let them go completely. It's quite common for actors to feel fear when they let go of that tension. The challenges will only increase when the actor is given a role that he or she must bring to life. However, the goal of the movement teacher who teaches movement for actors is to help the actor to let the tension melt away and instead to adopt the dynamic and multi-dimensional characteristics of a truly great actor.

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