Acting Classes at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation

The basis of this course is in these sentences by Eli Siegel: "According to Aesthetic Realism, acting shows that you don't have to be fettered to yourself.  You can be other people .... Acting is a certain way of taking the contraries of the world.  It is a way of being somebody else for the purpose of coming back home immediately.  You take a trip in order to find out who you are."  Students prepare scenes, take part in improvisations, and present papers in relation to Eli Siegel's "Is Beauty the Making One of Opposites?" and "Aesthetic Realism As Beauty: Acting." 
 

• Director of the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company
• Visit her Actress, Aesthetic Realism Consultant Web site.
• Flier: Aestetic Realism and Acting Class taught by Anne Fielding (pdf)

There are Spontaneity and Plan at every moment. An actor has to be willing to be surprised, even as he has a scene or an entire play carefully thought out. We have to know our lines and movements and cues and inner desires, let alone what we are doing and where we are; and at the same time we must welcome and even look for the unexpected.... >> Continue