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MOVEMENT 2
Movement 2 training allows the actor’s body to move to a more sensual and receptive level of experience as we begin to understand and participate in deeper, richer, and more personal contact with the ensemble.
Exceptional actors possess the ability to fully experience the reality of an imagined world. They do not imitate emotion or manufacture behavior. They cultivate an instrument capable of responding deeply, personally, and truthfully to imaginary circumstances.
Movement II continues the physical and emotional development begun in Movement I, guiding actors toward a more receptive, emotionally available, and sensually alive instrument. As physical restrictions continue to dissolve, actors discover a greater capacity to process experience, trust imagination, and respond with freedom.
This work directly supports the emotional demands of the Meisner Technique and prepares actors for increasingly sophisticated artistic challenges.
Deepening Emotional Availability
One of the central areas of exploration in Movement II is Emotional Preparation.
A cornerstone of the Meisner Technique, Emotional Preparation is the actor's process for creating a truthful emotional relationship to the previous circumstances of a scene before stepping on stage or in front of the camera.
Unlike techniques that ask actors to revisit painful memories from their own lives, the Meisner Technique develops the actor's ability to use imagination, daydreaming, and fantasy to create rich emotional experience. The emphasis is always on expanding the imagination rather than reliving the past.
Movement II provides physical pathways that support this process, allowing actors to approach emotional preparation with greater freedom, ease, and openness.
Expanding the Actor's Instrument
Building upon the exploration of the actor's channel and the seven psychophysical energy centers introduced in Movement I, students begin investigating the body's emotional energy pathways through meridian work and deeper physical exploration.
As the semester progresses, actors develop an increasingly refined relationship with sensation, emotional responsiveness, and ensemble awareness.
The body becomes not simply more flexible, but more emotionally intelligent.
Working Beyond Habit
Throughout the semester, students explore a series of carefully structured exercises designed to expand perception, imagination, and impulse, including:
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Blind work
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Animal essence
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Heightened sensory awareness
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Improvisation
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Drunk impediments
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Continued alignment and flexibility work
Each exercise serves a specific artistic purpose.
Blind work encourages actors to trust senses beyond vision and experience greater presence. Animal studies develop instinct, physical imagination, and impulsive behavior. The exploration of simple drunk impediments allows actors to experience a deeply released state while discovering greater permission, sensual awareness, and emotional freedom.
The goal is never imitation. It is transformation.
Surrendering to the Moment
The semester culminates in an extended ensemble improvisation that asks each actor to surrender fully to the emotional impulses of the group.
Rather than controlling experience, students practice allowing behavior to emerge organically from genuine connection, imagination, and spontaneous impulse.
This work develops one of the actor's most valuable abilities: trusting the unknown.
As actors become more physically released and emotionally available, they discover greater freedom, richer emotional life, and a more expansive relationship to the creative process.
Building a Fully Alive Instrument
Movement II is not simply about becoming more expressive.
It is about developing an instrument capable of experiencing the full spectrum of human behavior with honesty, courage, and ease.
Together, Movement I and Movement II provide actors with the physical freedom, emotional openness, and embodied awareness necessary to support truthful acting throughout a lifetime of artistic work.
Movement II is a twelve-week course consisting of twenty-four classes.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of Movement I.
STUDENT TESTIMONIALS
“Movement 2 completely changed my way of thinking. I pushed myself beyond what I thought I was capable of doing with the help of these intuitive instructors who create a safe and exciting learning environment. Simply put, it’s life-changing.”
Harmony Stempel
“After movement training at the studio, I developed a greater awareness of the physical tensions and habits which were hurting my acting. Julia and Briana create an environment that is safe and permissive. These classes are a must!”
Nabil Traboulsi
“The class preaches the importance of having a released body. Julia has a knack for understanding the physical blocks of each individual and works to help release those tensions. I highly recommend this class for every actor!”
Fred Winkler
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MOVEMENT 2
Movement 2 training allows the actor’s body to move to a more sensual and receptive level of experience as we begin to understand and participate in deeper, richer, and more personal contact with the ensemble.
SARA FAY GEORGE
Sara Fay George is the founder of The Holistic Method, a physical acting technique designed bring participants into confident connection with themselves and elicit fully embodied storytelling. She worked as the Resident Movement Coach with The Actors Space, Berlin, The Fritz-Kirchoff Schule and has been training actors across America and Europe since 2010.
ACTING STUDIO NEW YORK NY
The Maggie Flanigan Studio is the leading acting studio in New York City where professional actors train for long careers. The acting programs at the drama school are based on the Meisner Technique and the work of Sanford Meisner. The two year acting program includes acting classes, movement classes, voice and speech for actors, commercial acting classes, on camera classes, cold reading, monologue, playwriting, script analysis and the Meisner Summer Intensive.
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