Briana Packen is one of the faculty members that teaches movement classes for actors at the Maggie Flanigan Studio. Briana explains how actors can shed the physical habits that get in the way when acting. How Do You Get Out of Your Own Way? So many students ask me how...
Briana Packen teaches movement classes for actors at the Maggie Flanigan Studio. In this video, Brianna talks about how being off balance makes actors interesting to watch. Letting Go of Control and Being Off Balance It’s important for actors to experience being...
How to stay strong, maintain endurance, and promote health without interfering with your released actor’s instrument. For all of us, it is important to be strong, have physical stamina, and maintain a healthy instrument, but this is especially true for actors....
When I begin working with actors, the first step is to get them to identify their own unique patterns and habits of tension, because an actor must be physically released. A released actor is one who walks into an audition room, and the people on the other side think...
Movement Training helps actors to immediately move beyond physical constrictions and use the body as a full acting instrument that can interact fully, with all the senses, to the world around them and to the other “players’ in that world. For more information about...
