Acting Techniques for Effective Communication
Destroying to Reconstruct
A course by Ivo Müller , Actor
About the video: Destroying to Reconstruct
Overview
“Next, I'll discuss how important it is to explore "wrong" choices in rehearsal. It's time to break all the rules before they break you. ”
In this video lesson Ivo Müller addresses the topic: Destroying to Reconstruct, which is part of the Domestika online course: Acting Techniques for Effective Communication . Learn how to convince and engage an audience by exploring the tools and techniques used by actors, from humor and silence to authenticity.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Destroying to Reconstruct Now, we'll learn how important it is to explore wrong choices in rehearsal. It's time to break all the rules before they break you. To be ready, you must practice a lot. At the same time, you must not play safe in practice rehearsal. This practice is to build a safe space to make mistakes. We often work on a speech or dialogue as if it were some term paper we have to turn in in college and that makes us act like robots. In your keynote speech, your audition, the class you teach becomes boring. Destroying to reconstruct is to play with unusual and silly choices, p...”
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Ivo Müller
A course by Ivo Müller
Ivo Müller is a Brazilian-born actor, producer, writer, and teacher based in Los Angeles, California. After discovering a love of live performance in middle school, Ivo earned a B.A. in Law at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, before abandoning his burgeoning career in favor of acting.
Ivo’s acting credits include a stage production of Twelve Angry Men, and Tabu, a critically-acclaimed, multi-award winning 2012 Portuguese movie that won the Critics Best Picture award at the Berlin Film Festival. Ivo has worked with studios including HBO, Sony, and Globo TV in Brazil, and has taught actors and directors at film schools in Brazil. He has over 11K followers on Instagram, and even has his own page on Wikipedia."
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