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

Topic 6: Soloist Bubble and Preventing Your Real Life Death On-Stage

Topic 7: Taking Correction

Topic 8: STAY IN CHARACTER!

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Day 1-7 Summary

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Topic 1: Understand Yourself. Understand Your Character.

Topic 2: Where Do I Carry My Emotions?

Topic 3: What Are my love languages?

Topic 4: Core Human Drives

Topic 5: Core Human Fears

Topic 6: Learning Styles

Topic 7: MBTI, Enneagram, and Personality Tests.

Topic 8: Becoming the Character (End-to-End System for Acting Singers)

Topic 9: Action Library

Topic 10: Music Alignment Notes

Topic 11: Self vs. Character: Map the Overlap, Train the Gap

Assignment: Who Am I Paper 2.0

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Who am I Paper 1.0 + 2.0 Template

Who am I example (Yours doesn’t have to look like just like this. You will hopefully keep editing and adding your own self-discoveries to it, but here is what it might look like at this point)

Topic 1: Performance Anxiety – How Do I Beat It?

Topic 2: Tools I Can Use

Topic 3: Pre-Performance Mantra

Topic 4: Tasking Your Conscious Mind with Observing and Not Judging

Topic 5: Breathe Mindfully

Topic 6: Direct Your Energy

Topic 7: Visualizations

Topic 8: Self-Hypnosis

Topic 9: Beta Blockers

Topic 10: Professional Help

Topic 11: Meditation

Topic 12: PMR (Progressive Muscle Relaxation)

Topic 13: Guided Meditation

Topic 1: How to Use Acting to Reinforce Vocal Technique

Topic 2: Practice mode Vs. Performance mode and how to connect them

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

Topic 1: Definition of a Gesture and Communicating Nothing

Topic 2: Cycle of Gestures

Topic 3: Permission to Be Human and to Gesture

Topic 4: Good and Bad Gestures

Topic 5: Birth, Life, and Death of a Gesture

Topic 6: Breath

Topic 7: Eyes First, Face Alive (Focus, Foci, and the “Inverted Horizon”)

Topic 8: What do I do with my hands?

Topic 9: Chest, Torso, and Hips

Topic 10: Legs and Knees

Topic 11: Feet

Topic 12: Walking

Topic 13: Building or Breaking Rapport

Topic 14: Traveling and Proxemics – Relating One Person or Object to Another

Topic 15: When Someone New Enters (Real or Imagined)

Topic 16: Status (How to Rank Without Saying a Word)

Assignment: Status Map

Topic 1: Music Business: Think Like the Owner

Topic 2: Resume

Topic 3: Headshot: Castable, Current, True (Without Going Broke)

Topic 4: Biography (Bios): Proof • Purpose • Personality

Topic 5: Auditions, Competitions, & Repertoire: Build Menus That Book

Topic 6: Website: Promise • Proof • CTA (Make It Bookable)

Topic 7: Social Media: Show Your Process • Earn the Click • Book the Gig

Topic 9: Creating Your Own Opportunities

Topic 10: Networking: Be Useful • Specific • Brief (Work Begets Work)

Topic 1: Making Collaborative Projects Work : How to Do Business with Friends and Stay Friends

Topic 2: Collaborative Mindset

Topic 3: Collaborative Rhetoric

Topic 4: Synergy vs. Implosion

Topic 5: Stop Talking and Do It Now!