First, we have to understand that Simon deals with a lot of acting related topics. This means that unless you know Simon personally, please realize that often he is creating imaginary circumstances for acting interaction. Acting interaction is also called “Imaginary Circumstances” and “Given Circumstances.
“My outlook, although very versed in Meisner backgrounds for over 25 years plus, well, my outlook is that all acting techniques must be personal to the actor, for the technique to be effective. Emotion does not lie. So if you’re activating your own authentic emotion, your building your craft of acting. And obviously receiving the other actor with your attention off of yourself is the only way a real genuine scene can occur.”
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It is true that Simon will work from personal experiences and imagination elements. Working with Imagination as well as personal experiences both activates my emotions.
Personal experiences are from an angle of personal perception. Obviously, in an acting scene each actor has their own points of view and when their perceptions join they enhance the circumstances of the scene. This is also how life attracts and repulses us as circumstances in life create themselves for us. This is why it’s important to trust your intuition. The reason I mention this, I have seen over 25,000 hours of class time, and defending one’s own personal point of view is not the creative art that I am interested in being involved in. Defending the ability to have one’s own personal expression is a worthwhile cause.
The key: Is this: Stay in your activated emotion, with your point of view and able to receive the other. I create, not to claim that I am the truth, or that my opinions are greater than anyone else’s. That’s what my experience has taught me., that every time I work even with incredible depth, I still take in the other actor. Thus, we create greater ensemble.
Let’s talk about Meisner:
“I was trained by over 12 or 15 teachers that all studied with Meisner. Studying not only the most current versions of Meisner, but also studying the progressions and changes amongst the decades of his teaching career. This included a lot of stuff, including changes he made when upsets happened, not only in New York City, but as well as multiple upsets that occurred in Los Angeles. Meisner, as any iconic style of teacher, is similar to Bruce Lee, all the students over the years all claim to have the only authentic version of the teachers teaching. I know for a fact this occurred in the martial arts community, just like it does in other industries. And as teachers make changes to the work over several years, often decades later arguments occur as to ‘which is the most authentic teaching’, when the truth is in my opinion, that any technique, including Stanislavski, whom Meisner learned from too, . Look the truth is, any technique that activates emotion is valid, authentic and genuine. And I will never criticize anyone for their attempts to find their own genuine authenticity. So, now that we are getting to know each, feel free to contact me, if you would like to, with zero pressure and zero expectations. I appreciate you. thank you. Simon”.
one last thing: “I was privately trained immediately after Sanford Meisner’s death, with all the latest and most improved methods that came directly from his mouth and lips. And I recognize, and have broken down every aspect of that, plus the hours of my own work and time, which is at least half or even matching my class time hours.”
Disclaimer:
Simon makes no claims of anything unless it is in a shared expression.
The greatest acting scenes are always when both actors receive each other taking in each others opinions.
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