Interrogating systems is the name of the class where we investigate different practices and then compare them to our own. The question always is how can each technique be useful for working with actors, to increase their body awareness and eftfiectivety onstage.
Moshe Feldenkris today
If I were to extract what I find most useful in this work, from what I know at the moment, it would be as follows. It's fitting that Feldenkris exercises are referred to as lessons!.
Firstly as a teacher or director to find a deep grounding before you meet your class or actors. This is obviously in an ideal world as mostly life happens right up until the moment you start and have to be brilliant at holding a space and practicing what you preach. Nevertheless to find ways to centre yourself before encouraging others to do so is useful.
This practice promotes so many fundamental principles that will support the actor, such as the challenge to be completely in the moment, focusing on how you feel now. The act of being realistic and tuning into sensations that you experience rather than the ones that you want to have and accepting, not judging them.
The importance of rest.
This is a big one, as humans we do best after rest or at least we tend to do badly very quickly without rest. If we don't stop and have a fixed point we can't notice changes. Stillness is when you notice the most activity in this work, and there is alot more than you might think.
Being as effective as possible.
Get there in the smoothest and most efficient way our teacher says and a voice in my head says 'there's no prizes for big circles' I must loose that competitive streak and focus on my journey to efficiency. To be good is a big part of a performers nature, actually to be the best, most intelligent, beautiful, graceful, engaging, mesmerising, passionate, agile, responsive, intuitive, versatile, resilient, poignant..........the list goes on and yes we want those things from great actors but they must happen with inner calm and ease.
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