The Art Of Acting Stella Adler Pdf
This is a book that you must have for your library.Now I have to say that I worked at the Stella Adler Conservatory so I might be biasedbut I believe that the ideas and information in this book are worth a fortune. Kissel has accomplished something quite remarkable because when you read this book, you will hear and experience Stella Adler and all of the power and passion that she brought to the classroom. You will be inspired by her words and feel your desire to act rekindled and roar back to life. In addition to the inspiration, you will find a very particular view on acting and the place of actors in the world. You will learn great exercises and hear wonderful explanations of why something works or doesn’t work. This book is so full of great quotes and ideas, that it needs to be read slowly and you need to mark it up, write notes in the margins and revisit it from time to time to discover things that you missed.As you may know, Stella Adler was disenchanted with the “American Method” of acting that was promulgated by Lee Strasberg, one of her colleagues in the Group Theatre.
She had the opportunity to meet and work with Stanislavski in Paris, the only American actor to ever do so, and returned to the States with a renewed love for acting and an understanding of Stanislavski’s continually evolving approach to acting. Suffice it to say that Strasberg focused his approach to acting on affective memory, recalling personal events and sensory experiences to connect the actor to the emotional elements of the script. Adler, on the other hand, focused on developing the actor’s imagination to enrich the given circumstances so that emotions would be directly connected to the text and the dramatic situations.Adler says in the book, “You have to get beyond your own precious inner experience now. I want you to be able to see and share what you see with an audience, not just get wrapped up in yourself.
The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings. The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.”Set up as classes, the book takes us through basic exercises and detailed ideas about actors and the art of acting. The book introduces you to the imagination and its importance to acting.
Actions are examined and explained. The very important concepts of size and justification are explored. This book not only reinforces the importance of the actor’s mind, it helps you to see how important it is to communicate information physically.I recommend you have this book in your library and go back to it again and again.
Stella Adler was one of the 20th Century's greatest figures. She is arguably the most important teacher of acting in American history. Over her long career, both in New York and Hollywood, she offered her vast acting knowledge to generations of actors, including Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty, and Robert De Niro. The great voice finally ended in the early Nineties, but her decades of experience and teaching have been brilliantly caught and encapsulated by Howard Kissel in the twenty-two lessons in this book.
Stella Adler was one of the 20th Century's greatest figures. She is arguably the most important teacher of acting in American history. Over her long career, both in New York and Hollywood, she offered her vast acting knowledge to generations of actors, including Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty, and Robert De Niro.
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Art Of Acting Stella Adler Pdf
The great voice finally ended in the early Nineties, but her decades of experience and teaching have been brilliantly caught and encapsulated by Howard Kissel in the twenty-two lessons in this book.