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The Dentist
Patricia Angelin
This is a Dentist Story
I went to the dentist. I have braces this year, yeah I know I’d say I was re-visiting adolescence except for that I never had braces when I was an adolescent. So brave new world and welcome to it full metal jacket in my mouth.
Read MoreHaving "It"
Patricia Angelin
How often have you gone to an audition wondering if you could really do what was needed to get the part? How often have you tried to guess at what a casting director might want to see from you? It's certainly possible to shape yourself into what you think they want to see. But this creates a BIG problem:
It cuts you off completely from what makes you uniquely compelling.
Read MoreDo you want to Cry On-Cue?
Patricia Angelin
Actors frequently come to me because they want the ability to “cry on cue.”
Can I help with that? Well…yes.
Will you be able to produce salty water from your eyes on-demand? That depends upon your own lacrimal gland functioning. Some people have medical dry-eye, for heaven’s sake. For the perfect, dewy tear? Well, that’s why God created glycerin… and filmmakers do know this.
Honestly, I only know of one actor who could produce perfect crocodile tears on cue, and despite being a beautiful ingénue, after a couple of Under-Five jobs on various soap operas, she disappeared into well-earned obscurity… because she was about as deep as a damp paper bag!
Read MoreAn Emotional Thanksgiving
Patricia Angelin
Most North Americans celebrate Thanksgiving.
We look forward to both Feeling and expressing, gratitude, which everybody agrees is a good! But - A big BUT - Family interpersonal dynamics, as we all know, are complicated! These complications make it very difficult in any given year to express, much less to feel, thankful. Some of our loved ones make us so angry that it's hard for us not to ‘pop ‘em one in the eye’. We certainly can't feel thankful for them when we are mad as hell. What to do?
From an ALBA Technique point of view, I suggest that even those of you who have not yet had a chance to work with me, can begin doing something. Observe yourself! As I (only partially joking) say, "Observation is All!"
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