A lot of people misperception of the cruel drama, thinking that it required actors to be more insane, painful and out of control.
On the contrary.
Physical training in cruel theatre is not out of control.
It's training precision.
The stronger the stage, the less emotional.
The mood will run out.
You'll get hurt.
The audience will soon be able to identify cheap exaggerations.
A truly powerful body, not just a broken body.
It's the body that can keep energy on the blade.
01 Training awareness, not performance
A lot of performance training starts with the question: "What are you going to say?"
What do you feel?
The bottom has no weight.
The spine has no direction.
Where's the breathing card.
The sound comes out of the chest or from the throat.
The more the body senses, the more accurate the stage moves.
There is no perception that the so-called outbreak was just a disturbance.
02 Repeat not mechanical, but close.
The cruel theatre values repetition.
Ten times a move repeats, the meaning changes.
Twenty times, the body will start to expose the real problem.
Repeat to a node, the actor is no longer acting, but rather opposing.
And what the audience sees is no longer a formality.
It's the real state of the body after time is consumed.
It's not good-looking to repeat.
Repeat to get close.
The sound must come out of the body.
Scream is not big.
The whisper is not small.
Sound must have a body source.
It can come from abdominal oppression.
It can be vibrating from the chest.
Can come from the tension in the back.
It can also come from unspoken congestion.
If the sound is just the effect of the throat, it will soon become a performance cavity.
The real stinging sounds are those that the body has to make.
04 Training borders, more important than training
Brutal dramas cannot be used as consumables.
A truly serious training must know borders.
Where is the controllable danger.
Where the body is really to be hurt.
Where emotional material can enter.
Where must stop.
No borders are cruel, just brutal.
It is the cruelty of borders that can be the method.
05 Accurate makes the pain work.
The pain on the stage is not created by the real pain of the actor.
It is structured.
By rhythm.
Stay away.
Stay with your body.
Time to sound.
The way people are forced to watch.
So the training in cruel theatre is not training people to look more like wounds.
It's about training actors to be able to create conditions for injuries.
Not crazy.
It's precise.