by Siobhan Richardson | Jan 22, 2020 | Best Practices, Self-Care
I’m always excited to find additional support for the methods we recommend, and I find a lot of them in TEDtalks. This one supports the case for closure, not just for actors, but for everyone. There’s a few suggestions for rituals and small ways we can...
by Siobhan Richardson | Aug 1, 2018 | Rehearsal Methods
The feeling you get when you watch a fight is different than the feeling of performing it. When we watch a fight as an audience, we tend to remember the image of the end points (completion of the attack and the parry), and the experience of the pathway. As a...
by Siobhan Richardson | Apr 17, 2018 | Best Practices
I’m starting to take a webinar with The Virtues Project. I first heard about it from Christine Ayling when I was up in Grande Prairie to teach. From talking to Christine in person, to listening to her TEDtalk (see below), and reading up on The Virtues Project...
by Siobhan Richardson | Oct 17, 2017 | Best Practices
In light of the current #metoo, I want to be sure that people know some of their options when facing harassment in the performance workplace. Ideally these actions are prevented, but if you have experienced harassment in the workplace here is how your unions have your...
by Guest Contributor | Oct 10, 2017 | Best Practices
Intimacy choreography has been a fundamental tool for me as an actor and as a human with boundaries. My boundaries are very different now from what they were when I was 16. I have triggers now that never existed before. Without intimacy choreography, I don’t know that...
by Siobhan Richardson | Oct 5, 2017 | Best Practices
You need a fight director/stunt coordinator. Find a good one. Engage their services. Celebrate your incident-free production. NB: No one is harmed in this body cam footage. Also, as soon as the police show up, DO WHAT THEY SAY, and read what Carly says below. ...
