A simple notion by Peter Brook highlights the significance of an actors devotion to his own inner cleansing as well as to mastery of his art/self/becoming egoless: It takes real confidence to sit still or to stay silent. A large part of our excessive, unnecessary manifestations come from a terror that if we are not somehow signaling all the time that we exist, we will in fact no longer be there. * Lets compare this statement with a beloved Antonin Artaud quote: If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames. To understand that these two states occur simultaneously. That Artaud is referring to the human spirit in its raw natural form. Now consider this, be this, in silence and in stillness. In meditation, we practice this in a very severe and incredible form. As actors, we strive for this in between and within every millisecond of onstage presence, through and of the shifting alive discourse with an audience of reactive observers, watching us feeling them, feeling us watching, wanting, beckoning them. As citizens of the world, we weigh this exercise with every moment of our lives, alternately asserting our desire to appear to one another and recoiling from our actual manifestations of self... stifled by cynicism, doubt, and fear. Fear that the illusion is too great. Afraid that our own tricks are actually on us. Instead of opening our raw fleshy inside experiences to one another with the unrestrained fullness of sharing in the great secret together. Acknowledging that our full disclosure is and always has been what we all want from each other. We do not engage the yielding of the love flower in the clamor of busyness. And not in frozen orbs of silence either. But its steady wail, upon release, renders the handholding of souls shifting into intimacy an absorbent and communicable phenomenon. Able to become by being felt and seen with others. Brings the hidden to the surface. Finding ourselves and each other in placidity, in signals, and in flames.
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 22:20:13 +0000
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