Status Updates From Stanislavski for Beginners

The “system " cannot make you a great actor. It should not be seen as an end in itself, it is an aid, "a companion on the way to creative achievement"

Such on art demands a special technique - not a technique of fixed methods, but a technique for mastering the natural laws of human creativity - and with H, the ability to influence this nature, to control it, to discover at every performance your own creative possibilities, your own intuition

Working from physical actions stimulates the actor to explore the character’s inner life. Now there is a real need to analyse and investigate the given circumstances, the character's objectives, and so on, in more depth

Never come Into the theatre with mud on your feet. Shake off all the dust and dirt outside. Leave your overshoes In the cloakroom - and with them all your little worries, quarrels and troubles - all the things that make your life difficult, and take your attention away from your art.

A change in the given circumstances, then, produces a change in tempo-rhythm; the two are always closely related

Speech is music. The text off a role or a play is the melody. The art of correct speech on the stage is as difficult as singing, it demands a training and technique bordering on virtuosity

What is the aim of our art? It is the conception and birth of a new living being - the person in the part. It is a natural creative act, resembling the birth of a human being

"Me pareció que había estado viviendo en vano toda mi vida, como si no hubiera aprendido nada, y hubiera seguido el camino equivocado en el arte."

Yo soy Nexo, nexo soy.