Mastering Stage Presence Flashcards
Presence: about presenting who you are and what you believe and value at your best self with clarity.
Presence triangle: mental focus, body, speaking voice.
Mental focus is the way we create a safety space to be present and to explore the purpose. Vocal and physical elements is to communicate our purpose to audience.
We should have a clear purpose when we are on every stage, commit right energy to the purpose and communicate it.
Performance from the inside out: we connect with inner purpose and inner psychological experiences.
Performance from the outside in: physical impulses inform your interior life. i.e. smiling makes us happier.
Physical choices inform inner life.
Good public speaking stems from good private thinking.
Uta hagen: Put your instincts and sense of truth, your understanding of human realities to use while probing and grappling with the content and the roots of the materials.
To find the purpose on any stage, you have to be connected with the material and content. You need to understand your context like a detective finding all the details about a case. you have to know your material intimately and have a deep understanding of what you want to achieve.
Uta Hagen's 9 questions: who am I? what time is it? where am I? what surrounds me? what are the given circumstances? what is my relationship? what do I want? what is in my way? what do I do to get what I want?
