To answer your question, Phyllis -- although I did not come on here to talk about my school -- A fundamental point of any meaningful performer-training is removing blocks to the full expression of one's talent...as such, it is "liberating" and "freeing." This is true of giving a great performance, too, of course.
Ego dissolution is quite an amazing experience to have while performing, where you feel like "you" aren't doing it anymore. It's almost as if the performance is moving through you. Most great performers I know talk this way about how it feels to really "nail it."
No one teaches acting, really. What we can do is facilitate removing the blocks to full expression, etc., as I said above. And we can teach tools great performers use to create imaginary worlds and characterizations. But, I don't think anyone can actually "teach acting," in the literal sense of that phrase. But, again, as throughout my school's web site, I have to choose between using words and phrases people recognize, and speaking with utter psychological or methodological precision...there are ups and downs no matter which choice I make here and there...
It is a difficult venture, to use English or any verbal language, to describe creative processes, which are symbolic and imaginal.
It is very humbling to try and communicate creative process on a message board, when some posters are so unfamiliar with such things. This isn't a judgment, just a rather clear reality.
Find more typos? I'm passing them on to assistants.
Chillin' and teachin' acting and voice to muh Bway/Film peeps...
(Betty Buckley is teaching a workshop for me at my school, check it out.)
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