Acting 101 for Singers

Opera Singers, Pop Singers, Rock Bands, Metal Bands, or any other kind of singer who has to get up on stage and do something more than sound pretty. This is for YOU!

Acting 101 for Singers Introduction

Topic 1: START WITH THE STORY – Part I – IMAGINATION

Topic 2: A More Effective Way to Learn Music

Topic 3: How to Learn a Role

Topic 4: The #1 Asset a Performer Has Is ______?

Topic 5: Where am I? Who am I?

Topic 6: Boxes – What Does the Music Have to Say About Dramatic Change?

Topic 7: Lines – It’s About Stress!

Topic 8: Arrows – Pinning Down Where Ideas Shift

Topic 9: Circles – Finding the Music that We Have to Move to

Topic 10: Where Does Imagination Come From?

Writing Assignment 0: Choose Your Performance Projects

Writing Assignment 1: Marked Up Score 1.0

Writing Assignment 3: The “Who am I” Paper 1.0

Topic 1: START WITH THE STORY – Part II – CREATION

Topic 2: Creating a Specific and Emotionally Charged WWWWW

Topic 3: Putting Drama into Boxes

Topic 4: What We Really Mean by What We Say

Topic 5: Action and Emotion Triggers

Topic 6: Action!

Topic 7: Good Risk Taking

Topic 8: The Difference Between Fully Staged and Concert Version Performances

Topic 9: How to Help Others Give You Useful Feedback

Writing Assignment 2: Marked Up Score 2.0

Topic 1: Get Caught Monologuing : The Number 1 Thing You Can Do For a Better Performance RIGHT NOW!

Topic 2: A Singers Guide to Preparing a Monologue

Topic 3: Permission to Act On the Impulse

Topic 4: Connecting the Monologue to the Music

Performance Project 1: Dramatic Monologue Assignment

Performance Project 2: Acting to Music Without Words

Topic 1: The Big 3 + MMC Introduction

Topic 2: The Big 3 + 1

Topic 3: Make Music a Consequence in Theory

Topic 4: Make Music a Consequence in Practice (Performer, Director, Cinematographer)

Performance Project 3 : Art Song Fully Staged Version

Performance Project 4: Art Song Concert Version

Topic 1: Lessons Live Performance Can Learn From Blockbuster Movies

Topic 2: What Is There In a Phrase

Topic 3: One “Eye-Dea” Per Phrase

Topic 4: LNOS: The Formula for Making Music and Acting Work Naturalistically

Topic 5: Video Examples of Breaking Down the Use of LNOS and MMC

Topic 1: Don’t Act – Be

Topic 2: Vulnerability

Topic 3: The Magic If

Topic 4: The Truth Behind What Our Body is Saying – The Limbic Response

Topic 1: Basic Stage Craft

Topic 2: Schools of Acting

Topic 3: Stage Directions, Playing the Diagonal, and Singing Between 10 & 2

Topic 4: Giving and Taking the Stage, and Getting Upstage

Topic 5: Touch Things (Coming Soon)

Topic 6: Soloist Bubble and Preventing Your Real Life Death On-Stage (Coming Soon)

Topic 7: Taking Correction (Coming Soon)

Topic 8: STAY IN CHARACTER! (Coming Soon)

Topic 1: Become a Character (Coming Soon)

Topic 2: Where Do I Carry My Emotions? (Coming Soon)

Topic 3: What Are my love languages? (Coming Soon)

Topic 4: Core Human Drives (Coming Soon)

Topic 5: Core Human Fears (Coming Soon)

Topic 6: Learning Styles (Coming Soon)

Topic 7: Using MBTI, Enneagram, and Other Personality Tests as Tools for the Stage. (Coming Soon)

Assignment: Who Am I Paper 2.0 (Coming Soon)

Topic 1: Performance Anxiety – How Do I Beat It? (Coming Soon)

Topic 2: Tools I Can Use (Coming Soon)

Topic 3: Pre-Performance Mantra (Coming Soon)

Topic 4: Tasking Your Conscious Mind with Observing and Not Judging (Coming Soon)

Topic 5: Breathe Mindfully (Coming Soon)

Topic 6: Direct Your Energy (Coming Soon)

Topic 7: Self Hypnosis and Visualizations. (Coming Soon)

Topic 8: Beta Blockers (Coming Soon)

Topic 9: Professional Help (Coming Soon)

Topic 10: Meditation (Coming Soon)

Topic 11: PMR (Progressive Muscle Relaxation) (Coming Soon)

Topic 12: Guided Meditation (Coming Soon)

Topic 1: How to Use Acting to Reinforce Vocal Technique (Coming Soon)

Topic 2: Practice mode Vs. Performance mode and how to connect them (Coming Soon)

Topic 3: The Mighty Stirrer Straw for Voice and Acting (Coming Soon)

Topic 1: Definition of a Gesture and Communicating Nothing (Coming soon)

Topic 2: Cycle of Gestures (Coming soon)

Topic 3: Permission to Be Human and to Gesture (Coming soon)

Topic 4: Good and Bad Gestures (Coming soon)

Topic 5: Birth, Life, and Death of a Gesture (Coming soon)

Topic 6: Breath (Coming soon)

Topic 7: Eyes, Mouth, Face, Eye Foci, and Inverting Your Horizon(Coming soon)

Topic 8: Shoulders, Arms, Hands, Fingers (Coming soon)

Topic 9: Torso and Hips (Coming soon)

Topic 10: Legs and Knees (Coming soon)

Topic 11: Feet (Coming soon)

Topic 12: Traveling and Proxemics – Relating One Person or Object to Another (Coming soon)

Topic 1: Music Business (Coming Soon)

Topic 2: Resume (Coming Soon)

Topic 3: Headshot (Coming Soon)

Topic 4: Biography (Coming Soon)

Topic 5: Audition, Competitions, and Repertoire (Coming Soon)

Topic 6: Webpage (Coming Soon)

Topic 7: Social Media (Coming Soon)

Topic 8: When Should I Start? (Coming Soon)

Topic 9: Creating Your Own Opportunities (Coming Soon)

Topic 10: Networking (Coming Soon)

Topic 1: Making Collaborative Projects Work : How to Do Business with Friends and Stay Friends (Coming Soon)

Topic 2: Collaborative Rhetoric (Coming Soon)

Topic 3: Collaborative Mindset (Coming Soon)

Topic 4: Synergy vs. Implosion (Coming Soon)

Topic 5: Stop Talking and Do It Now! (Coming Soon)