Making decisions. What will I do this fall? Will I turn around and walk away, to make a u-turn later on? Or will I walk the path that was chosen for me when I found acting? What would a different country do to me? Would it make me stronger, or would it fail me.

There are many paths to walk, many doors to open and many unknown moves. Maybe I just have to breath, enjoy where I am right now and let time tell me what’s coming.

Tags: Acting, choice, decision, path, what to do

A Shakespeare sonnet, the harmony of a play. It’s magical how so few words can make you feel and see.

120

That you were once unkind befriends me now,
And for the sorrow which I then did feel
Needs must I under my transgression bow,
Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.
For if you were by my unkindness shaken,
As I by yours, y’have passed a hell of time,
And I, a tyrant, have no leisure taken
To weigh how once I suffered in your crime.
O that our night of woe might have rememb’red
My deepest sense, how hard true sorrow hits,
And soon to you, as you to me then, tend’red
The humble salve which wounded bosoms fits!
But that your trespass now becomes a fee;
Mine ransoms yours, and yours must ransom me.

So we are now working with Shakespeare in school, which is classic. Which acting school does not? We have a course now that is called Monologue technique, which until now have been based on cold reading and being where you are in your text. When you say something, do you say it because your emotion drives you to it or do you say something and act from what you say? I can’t really explain it better than the master himself; so enjoy!

Tags: 120, Acting, classic, cold reading, john barton, playing shakespeare, sonnet

Today was quite exciting. Started of with some rehearsal with my group in school. When class started we headed to a play at Stindbergs Intima. A play about his life and some short scenes from his most played plays. We also had a masterclass with our teacher, Mia Poppe, which gave us hope on showing a good piece next week when we have performance at school.

I actually went to the gym today as well, you will soon not believe that I’m not shitting you about it. My goal was to sit on the boring bike for 1 hour, which I did. I manage to reach 26km, which is a little bit over 16 miles. This workout thing is making me feel real good and I’m stoked about going to the gym. My goal is to compete in ‘Vätternrundan’ next year, it is 300km which is 186 miles.

I had an audition today. I can’t really let that feeling go away, because it’s one of the best feelings ever. Nerves, meeting people, talking shit and just having a blast! I love auditions – even when I don’t do great; which I totally did today btw. We had a “movement test”, which included a little bit of choreography. We also had to perform a 3 minute monologue, or poem, or song. I chose to perform a poem that I’m actually going to read on the final performance with our school this semester.

But after a sweaty 1 hour movement test and with a hell of a lunch I felt like I had to go to the gym. So I did. My legs quite numb even before the real workout. I managed to sit on the freaking bike for 1 hour, doing 18 km which is a little over 11 miles. Since I just started doing fitness training I feel good about the results. I’m going to try to get to 20 km by the end of this week, which shouldn’t be a problem if I eat well and don’t do 1 hour of heavy dancing before.. lol.

A happy actress on her way to the gym after an awesome audition

Tags: Acting, audition, bike, breaking limits, gym, practice, robin hood

It’s been a short week for me, since I worked half of it time just passed so quickly.. I wish my “holiday” from acting school would be relaxing, but no, the opposite of  course.  I was called for an audition on Wednesday, for a thing this summer, hope I will get the job and that it will be fun. The audition is going to take the whole day and the competion will be hard.

Tags: audition, free, robin hood

Start watching at like 55:00 :)

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Dear Diary: We had Corporeal mime today, I sat on the side because of my back. Last time we had Corporeal mime we did isolations, movement of different body parts, today we did that, rotations and elevations.

Picture from here

Dear diary: We had our first class in Dramaturgy today, with Eva Brise, she told us to keep diaries on what we do at Calle Flygare Acting school. Which I kind of do, but not really. So from now on I will keep a diary, here on my blog on what we do in class. Creating a new Category – Diary @ Calle Flygare, under Acting – Acting school.

We talked a lot about things to think about and how to start writing.

To think about: Characters, Relations and Reaction.

♥ Characters – We have to have different characters, with different goals to make a story interesting. If you have two characters, both with the same feelings you will probably have a hard time moving the story forward. You will get to characters who agree and it’s not “interesting enough”.

♥ Reactions - How do the “other” character react on what the character says.

♥ Relations – Simple, without relations you will never ever have any dialogs, which is quite important. So relations between the characters you create; not said that they have to love each other.

Tags: Acting, acting school, blog, characters, dear diary, reactions, relations

An illusion, something beyond the mystery face.
A creation, something ahead of you.
Unstoppable, something resemblant to a train with no breaks.

Stay away from me, so that I can stay away from pain.

The old man said – “pain is just weakness leaving your body“.
So she tried, she tried so hard to live with it.
But then, how much pain can one little soul handle.
Pain = weakness = failure

Failure leaves you - prevented

Not said that the girl will be stopped, no oh no,
the girl will stand up strong and fight the pain away.
Nothing will or can take this dream away.
Everything has been taken away from this girl, everything but this.

She will never let this one go.

Work, shopping, school, home is my plan for today. I have an errand on Söder, after that I will try getting myself to MQ for some shopping, since I got gift cards there on my birthday, but only if time is available. We have Dramaturgy today in school, we had to read a script until today and I can tell you all that it’s one of the most wierd scripts I have ever read..

We had our first corporeal mime class today. It was fun. Though I will have some soreness in my body tomorrow it will be fun having another class, in corporeal mime. Hard work will pay off.

Pictures from here

Tags: Acting, Acting school, calle flygare, corporeal mime, dance, theater