Why Fusion Technique?

“Success leaves clues.” 

There are very few successful actors today that have relied on a single technique of acting-one way of working to get to their peak, and significantly, to stay there, making it possible to deliver  consistent, believable, emotionally intelligent performances for stage or camera.

Fusion technique offers a mixed practice approach as precisely the way to work.

For each weekly 5 hour workshop, Fusion practice applies choice key notions of modern, classical actor technique: Stanislavsky, Stella Adler, Meisner Technique, Practical Aesthetics, and Second City Improvisational technique. 

The Fusion technique explicitly creates contrast in the exercise regimen; alternating analysis and context, pure on your feet technique challenges, weekly “snap’ project presentation, and then finally, live performance for invited audiences of short play works. 

As “cross-training” is to athletes, Fusion Technique for the actor aims to develop an adaptive confidence in the actors interpretive instinct leading to a reliable, sturdy performance capability-in any medium – which will remain, significantly, enduring.                             

We work with short and long form improvisation, character creation, extreme action and objective exercises, devised and ambiguous scene work. Fusion practice moves experientially toward exploring, testing, and then advancing emotional and situational intelligence. ”Your talent is in your choice.” -Stella Adler

A cornerstone of Fusion practice is frequent performance challenge. We’ll get right to rehearsing text weekly for live stage performance(and at times, act for camera challenges). We’ll test the the training by working toward openheartedly sharing our choices with an audience. Each week, the workshop is divided between 2.5 hours of training, and then 2.5 hours working with the short play selections.                         

All actors in this cycle may take on solo pieces and/or long form monologues for eventual performance; each actor will definitely be assigned a contemporary short play with a partner to be performed for a live audience in the final week.