Emotions! Grrrr…. aaarggh…. eeek! And… you know… all that emotional stuff.
Today, I’m rambling about my favourite voice exercise for teaching emotion (should I spell that favorite as more people speak US English?… no, I’m sticking with the UK spelling).
The video starts scrappy, it gets a bit less scrappy, then it ends… you guessed it, scrappy again!
If you’ve ever tried to “act” an emotion, you’ll know that it’s bloomin’ hard. And most performers get it kind of wrong.
I talk about…
* Coaching emotional voice in voice, acting, and improv
* Some of the research into how to teach emotion in a safe way
* How can you teach and/or learn emotion?
* Why it’s hard to learn emotion?
* 3 reasons it’s hard to learn emotion
* Why my favourite exercise is so good
00:00 — What the deuce are emotions?
01:01 — The amygdala!
01:20 — My favourite emotion exercise
02:09 — How it works
03:48 — Why expressing emotion is so difficult
04:54 — The societal “rules” around feeling things
05:37 — Why big emotions feel dangerous
06:38 — The actor’s paradox (Diderot)
07:48 — Three reasons it’s hard to express emotion
08:02 — Do you need a teacher?
08:37 — How to be safe when exploring emotion
10:02 — Why controlled environments matter
10:27 — Scrappy ending
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