Trance Acting

This quick question comes via email:

"I am a C.Ht. and former actor working in the Los Angeles area, and I have been working with actors for a while now.  Through my own experiences with trance, channeling, hypnotherapy and the standard gamut of hypnosis and NLP states, I have been led to doing research on utilizing the trance state for character exploration in the experiential aspect of acting.  Of course when I googled acting and hypnosis, your page on experiential hypnosis for actors came up.   I see no links for training or resource and I am curious if you are still doing this work and where I might be able to find more information on your techniques.  I have read your course outline, and it seems that you have covered a wide range of modalities and exercises, for which I admire you greatly.   Any information that you could share with me would be greatly appreciated."

My own professional training has been in theatre since the beginning (I've BA and MA degrees in Communication/Theatre and a PhD in Comparative Literature with a focus on Interactive Drama - I also worked in small market television long ago behind and in front of the camera, mostly behind - and have performed or directed a long list of plays, mostly academic but a number professional pieces in there prior to relocating to Taiwan where it's been mostly academic theatre for me).  I've been on the boards and behind them but my involvement with performers now is mostly as a trainer.

Thank you for your interest in my work with actors.  For the most part, my work with trance acting is through the courses I teach at the university or workshops that I very occasionally offer mostly here in Taiwan where I live (although I have offered such workshops on very rare occasions elsewhere such as India and the US).  Thank you for your kind comments regarding our course outline, we do a great deal on sense work and experiential processes with regard to the actor along with adapting more standard acting exercises to the experiential trance model as a means of enhancing their utility.

No, I do not currently have DVD or other materials available on trance acting, we may eventually film a workshop but it is not on the production schedule at the moment.

I do have one audio CD for actors that combines deep trance identification with character exploration which can be found on our webpages at http://www.briandavidphillips.com/products/shop.html.

I wish you well.

All the best,
Brian

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Brian David Phillips, PhD, CH [brian@briandavidphillips.com]
Hypnotist, Hypnotherapist, Intuitionist, Trance Wizard
President, Society of Experiential Trance
Associate Professor, NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan

Comments

[Acting classes Los Angeles]

I have little knowledge about trance acting. I wish i could get an audio cd you posted on the last part of your post. I'd like to know more about deep trance identification with character exploration like you described it. I'll visit the link, hope to find more information about it.

-peter