Doors and Activities practice emotional spontaneous expressions for Actors. Testing the spontaneity with different Emotional Preparations builds acting interaction abilities. Doors and Activities were originally called Ins and Outs Acting Exercises.

Some key Quotes from this Article:
“The additional goal of Emotional Preparation is to add depth of emotion”
” Adding Emotional Preparations to Doors and Activities challenges the Actors Abilities.”

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Doors and Activities acting exercises increase the Actors spontaneity and depth. There is a person outside the door who has an affected Being and a person inside with an involved doing. The goal of the acting exercise is involvement and interaction.

The goal of interaction in the doors and activities is designed to authentically come from genuine responses. After each Actor has prepared themselves, they are able to simply be truthful in responses and participation.

The additional step to doors and activities acting exercises is the addition of Emotional Preparation.

Doors and Activities with Emotional Preparation

Doing Doors and Activities with Emotional Preparations amplifies the Actors experience.

Adding Emotional Preparation will gift the Actor Activated Emotion. Many forget to Activate their Emotions and instead flirt with feelings that by the time they start their acting interaction have already left them.

The Key in Doors and Activities is interaction by Receiving.

You want to receive the other actor to mix with your own Emotional Preparation Experience and Emotional Activation.

Building confidence in acting takes trial-and-error. Testing your ability to find your emotions and release it with an activation where a small or large desire of want of expression occurs is key.

Taking the approach to focus on an emotional range and testing different ranges is part of the uses of this acting exercise.

The teacher after seeing and helping the acting work develop in the student guides the student when to add Emotional Preparation. Many times, the teaching of Emotional Preparation is done only to add a stylistic approach or fleeting feeling to the work. The additional goal of Emotional Preparation is to add depth of emotion that comes from beyond initial feelings and ideas.

As the work develops the ebb and flow of personal exchanges is part of the critiqued work of the students by the teacher. The Doors and activities acting exercises are vital from beginning, middle and into professional work as an Actor.

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