Enter the acting workshop, where actors can go places they cannot in performance.
In work situations, actors rely on an intuitive sense of their potential, acquired through experience. Like dancers, musicians and other performers, they train throughout their professional lives, a foundational part of which is learning to live in the moment, in mid-stream with the power of their energy.
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It happens automatically whenever she's feeling unsafe. She disconnects from the immediate circumstance to live in her head, to tamper, manipulate, control. And as she does, the emotional celebration is dulled and loses form, and she loses touch with the sensations of her body and her ability to express and resolve her emotions. And the web of confusion wraps around in the blink of an eye, and she's trapped.
In acting, what's safe is being available in the immediate circumstance and allowing emotion to live freely in the body and voice. What's unsafe is being manipulative and unrevealing.
