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Dance Helps me as an Actor!!!

Some years ago I discovered that dance helped me as an actor. After playing football in college and then getting into boxing I was like many guys I know - musclebound, stiff and not very flexible. 

Now I always loved to dance socially but never had any formal training and that social dance didn't really aid in my body being malleable. 

I was lucky enough for my friend Susanne to invite me to Maria Del Bagno's  Hot Jazz Dance Class (now DanceCreate). The class was awesome fun and the non-judgmental, non-competitive nature of Maria's class and her care made me a regular attender. 

For me I found that dance was another form, another way for me to express myself, to communicate. Different than just dialogue. Without words or a script or some direction I was creating in the moment and expressing myself in a whole new way.

Not only have I found that I can be ANY character (take on who they are and how they think) I can also change by body (duplicate them physically as well).  I don't think, I just do! I AM them inside and out. 

Dance is a whole lot of fun and Maria and DanceCreate is a great place to study. ANY person at ANY level of dance can take with her - that's how she rolls.

So for a dance class in Los Angeles where fun, freedom and self-expression is a plenty - check out Maria Del Bagno and DanceCreate.

And just to add to that - for an acting class in Hollywood that has the simplest, sanest and most thorough way to train actors go to The Acting Center.

Dance people, DANCE!!!! 

The Acting Center - The New School

After many years of studying and searching for the elusive consistency of acting, I found The Acting Center. They have the simplest, sanest and most powerful way to train actors!!! The ability to create ANY character and emotion instantly. Really BEING someone else - not pretending to be or imitating them, really being. So BE another person with THEIR emotion? Not substituting MY emotion imagined or real for the characters emotion? YES! Every person in life experiences and expresses emotion differently, therefore, using 'Dave's' emotion is not completely truthful. Each student works - ACTS - for most of the class. You learn by doing. And NO critiques from teachers or other students - YES - no criticism. How does that work? I'll get you the info if you want it. :-)

http://theactingcenterla.com/