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Ken Rea Teaches Acting

Introduction

Step up to the next level (7:46)

The Ensemble and You

Be a team player (3:15)
Feel the string and release your knees (3:00)
Send energy through the fingers (3:11)
Give warm eye contact (3:14)
Surrender control to your acting partner (9:48)
Explore the negative space (6:14)
The Greek chorus on the disc (4:10)
The Greek chorus with text (6:05)

Working on the Text

Start with the structure (1:20)
Duologues: Break it up into new thoughts (6:08)
Duologues: Colour key words (8:58)
Duologues: Choose your objective (2:01)
Duologues: Add a point of concentration (2:35)
Duologues: Change the initiative (7:42)
Monologues: Break up the text into new thoughts (8:34)
Monologues: Colour key words (4:55)
Monologues: Analysing a contemporary monologue (1:22)
Monologues: Break it up into new thoughts (4:49)
Monologues: Colour key words (3:48)
Monologues: Make it about them, not you (4:45)
Monologues: Try different objectives (7:18)
Monologues: Play different mantras (6:38)

Auditioning for Drama School

Show your passion to be an actor (2:09)
Review your self tape (3:05)
Analyse the recording (6:47)
Take energy to the end of each sentence (2:08)
Give each thought a different energy (5:46)
Colour key words (6:23)
Choose an objective (3:34)
Eye contact – formulate and land the thought (2:10)
Change the circumstances (2:59)
Add a point of concentration (2:45)
Fight to make your point (1:20)
Make it about them, not you (6:48)

Your Character's Physicality

Connect the thought with the body (4:14)
Move as colours (5:28)
Move as materials (6:28)
Accelerate and decelerate (15:26)
Move in angular and fluid dynamics (17:36)
Explore the dynamics of an abstract painting (9:44)
Take the painting into text (5:23)
Explore different centres of energy (5:23)
Give the centre a dynamic quality (7:44)
Explore your character’s impetus (3:15)
Gesture and the hands (1:55)
Explore different sectors of gesture (3:09)
Explore different types of contact (3:49)
Find freedom within the form (2:40)

Using Improvisation

Take the pressure off yourself (3:52)
Sharpen your visual imagination (3:56)
Vary your acting choices (4:58)
Transform through sound and movement (8:58)
The transformation game (9:09)
Keep focused on the story (3:17)
How objectives work (6:35)
Add a point of concentration to bring out the subtext (18:04)
Use mantras to give different nuances (9:33)
Play high and low status (8:08)
The status ladder with three people (6:12)

Strengthening Your Presence

Two dimensions – time and space (0:55)
Presence in time (1:56)
Hear the voice in your head (2:48)
Silence the chatter (1:42)
Presence through breathing (4:14)
Find a visual point of focus (2:42)
Take a sensory walk (1:54)
Keep a sense diary (1:38)
Presence in space (2:19)
Overarm and underarm energy (5:23)
Try the difference for yourself (1:12)
Explore overarm and underarm with a text (3:25)
The still centre of the spinning wheel (4:12)
Radiate energy in the six directions (1:57)
The vertical axis (3:42)
The four principles of ki energy (8:48)
More ki exercises (4:56)
Apply ki energy to dramatic action: The warrior (5:09)
Ki energy: The drowning (5:42)
Ki energy: With sound (2:48)
Ki energy: With text (5:44)
Gestures from efforts: Pushing forward (4:40)
Gestures from efforts: Pulling back (8:23)
Gestures from efforts: Pulling upwards (4:25)
Gestures from efforts: Pulling down (4:02)
Gestures from efforts: Undulation on the tilt (4:21)
Gestures from efforts: Throwing the net (4:39)
Gestures from efforts: Throwing the stone (3:20)
Make the efforts look natural (2:52)

Developing Charisma

Ease, focus and confidence (2:16)
Charisma and positivity (5:58)
Positivity in mind and body (1:48)
Use mantras in an improvised dialogue (7:16)
Apply mantras to a text (5:02)
Practise your rapport with the audience (6:10)
Play with the rhythm of attack and yield (3:03)
Play attack and yield with a text (2:49)
Keeping your performance fresh (4:26)
Use mantras (2:23)
Change your objective (3:40)
Try the least obvious choice (1:51)
Alter status (1:30)
The next level (4:30)
Working within the director’s vision (1:29)

Becoming Successful

Have a strategy (0:58)
Bring the right energy into the room (4:44)
Be proactive (4:09)
Start from your values (3:02)
Have a positive mindset (7:56)
Visualise confidence (2:57)
Do a SWOT analysis (3:27)
Have a strategy: SMART goals (2:28)
Make the goal personal, positive, present tense (1:18)
Chunk it down (4:32)

The Way Forward

Final thoughts (4:26)

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