Claim OwnershipThe Moment Before: An Actor's Warm-up Podcast
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An on-going series of guided acting warm ups. Now mind, body and imagination-based warm-ups are only a click away! Dive into dynamic preparations for class, rehearsal or performance with these 5-15 minute audio guides. These quick yet thorough preparations provide you direct access to an acting, movement or voice coach, helping you launch from The Moment Before to your first moment on stage.
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These episodes are built to Activate the actor’s imagination. As actors, we often create something from nothing; embodying people, places, objects and ideas on a moment’s notice. By working fully with our imagination, we have the opportunity to make the invisible visible to our audiences. The focus of this season is to encourage and revitalize a vibrant “inner eye,” and give you the artistic fuel needed to manifest dynamic imagery for your next class, rehearsal or performance. It’s time to Activate Imagination.
Activating Imagination: A sense of playfulness is necessary for being receptive to scene partners, making character discoveries, and inspiring creative choices. This guided visualization warm-up can not only get you focused on the work to be done, but it may also awaken playfulness in your acting.
Actors will travel through the various elements of the earth in order to energize their imagination as they follow physical impulses between earth, water, fire and air, ultimately evoking the creative power in their bodies and acting space. You will need ample space to physically explore.
This exercise serves as a practical way of radiating your energy to communicate intent and action by awakening, and then utilizing, an imaginary form or body called your “Phantom Body”. This technique allows you to direct or focus energy, and react to or influence your scene partner without needing to do large physical movements or change blocking in a scene.
Through imagination work, quickly access an empowering, creative mental space for class, rehearsal, or performance. Based on the Michael Chekhov exercise, this episode will help you turn your physical space into one full of creative possibilities.
Say YES to stretching creative muscles with an improv warm up that creates characters and encourages risk-taking and spontaneity.
This podcast is meant for you to explore, motivate, and challenge your imagination! As actors, one of our biggest assets is creating places, circumstances, objects, that do not exist with us in the moment. Specifically in improvisation, there is a lot of object work, and this exercise is going to explore how you can mime objects, food, and space that is familiar to you. Let’s get started.
This guided visualization is a magical way to warm up your body and mind for classroom or performance. Listeners will be led first on a journey through their own senses, then a journey through a spell-binding world. This exercise encourages playfulness, creativity and commitment to imagery as a tool to enliven one's performance.
Journey within through a guided meditation practice to awaken imagination, senses, and self. This warmup is inspired by the practice of Ritual Poetic Drama.
Whether you're looking to get creative with a current character, or take a creative break by becoming an imaginative super-hero, this episode is for you.
Ignite your sense of play and creativity by using your imagination to transform nearby objects.
These episodes are built to energize the actor; invigorating your mind, body and performance work overall. From more vigorous physical warmups to those based in flexibility and breath, this season has something for everyone. In every episode, our trained coaches will help you reengage with your body as a vessel for physical storytelling, and prepare your dive into an energized, full-bodied theatrical practice. It’s time to get up and move with Energizing the Body.
Actors need to use their unique instrument (the body) to their full advantage, and ready for anything the world may throw at them. This full-bodied warm-up will allow actors to find power and strength through a circuit of exercises.
As a form of moving meditation, Yoga for the Actor promotes mindfulness and full-bodied ease in your acting work. Join me in this comprehensive warm-up before your auditions, rehearsals, or even performances!
This kabuki inspired sequence provides a full-bodied physical warmup, that will wake up your muscles, engage your breath, and focus your mind.
Prepare yourself for performance or rehearsal by challenging your perfectionist brain and promoting self-care and kindness.
In our day-to-day lives, we probably don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the texture of words, or the resonance of the sounds we make. In our acting work, however, these are important tools for transformation into characters from every walk of life. Play this episode whenever you’re looking for a low pressure exercise geared to invigorate your vocal and physical choices. This is great as a warmup before rehearsals.
Explore movement, empathy and intentions by connecting to your ancestral roots. This practice stems from enslaved African ancestors; it places strong emphasis on artists bringing their cultural backgrounds to the work, showing up with intention and advocating for a full range of one’s humanity.
A dynamic exploration of Laban's Eight Effort Actions, employing principles that integrate weight and time into invigorating activities. This episode will awaken senses, stretch imagination and leave listeners feeling rejuvenated, offering an innovative way to activate the body by embracing the power of movement.
Feel more relaxed, open and vocally ready for rehearsal or performance through exercises that create release in the neck and jaw.
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