You Give Your Best Performances When You're Tired - a podcast by Sera Heywood-Rakhimova

from 2020-11-16T22:18:36

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The wish is wiggly today. 


We dive into two controversial topics:


 


  1. You give your best performances when you’re tired. (Do you agree?)

 


I learned this over my three years at the Ilkhom Theatre in Tashkent, UZ. Our teachers would spend all day with us in school and then perform at night. Marathon days were standard. Somehow, in exhaustion, all the frills and falsities fall away and we hone in razor-like focus for the task at hand. Exhaustion offers us extreme presence. 


 


  1. You do not have the right to be sick. (Hmmm… do you agree?)

 


Russian theatre school is hardcore. My classmates and I were told from the beginning: as part of the ensemble, you do not as an individual have the right to be sick. Be here, heal here.


 


I digested this notion because I was a good student (even with tortuous amounts of travel tummy). But these mantras aren’t stagnant - we can evolve with these ideas and shape them to our benefit. In the lens of 2020, we can use ALL that we’re feeling to create. Every shade of emotion is fuel. Actors are agents of change. Creativity heals. 


 


I have a suggestion: we can still give the best performances of our lives in the last weeks of 2020. I am here with you. Are you with me?


 


#speechforthestage


a e i o u


S → Sh


Sh → S


say-see-sai-soh-soo


shay-shee-shai-shoh-shoo


say-shay see-shee sai-shai soh-shoh soo-shoo


shay-say shee-see shai-sai shoh-soh shoo-soo 


 


This is a dialogue and I need your input! What do you want to discuss next? Write me a wish letter impulse@actortoartist.com


 


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