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  1. We are the artists. We are the ones responsible for changing the world.

  2. Considering that art has a very important influence in every stereotype, morals and ideals that we build our society around, we need to make art that reflects what we want to see in the world.

  3. If we adapt to the money-making industry, we will never change reality.

  4. If we don't dream for everyone, who will?

  5. As actors, we need to play human beings. Not races, sexes or age groups.

  6. Every man has a little bit of woman, every black has a little bit of white.

  7. Create a model society. Ask "How do we get along? How can we do this better?" in the play and in the rehearsal process.

  8. Because of mirror neurons, the audience accesses the same synaptic passageway in the same muscles as the actors when they are watching a play. That means that muscle memory will save the movements that the audience members restrained themselves from doing, but there is a real and scientific possibility that what is seen on stage will have impact (even to a muscular level) in the audience.

  9. Teaching of the arts and training is essential to and the lack of encouragement to the arts is what is killing people's humane nature.

  10. We must start change somewhere, even if it's minor. The places to start this change are: schools, colleges, groups and clubs.

  11. Because we don't know what will happen in the future, always do the best theater you can do today. - Gisela Cardenas

  12. If it gives you goose bumps, do it.

  13. We must eat the world. Whatever you hear, you own.

  14. Risk your life for your art.

MANIFESTO

Anchor 1
The Responsibility of the Artist in the World

  1. Films are audio and image. Theater is the human body.

  2. In theater you can make your audience believe in whatever you want, even if it's not there. In cinema they need to see it.

  3. "If it [the stage] cannot be richer than the cinema, then let it be poor." - Jerzy Grotowski

  4. Theater must reach a non-specific audience and must discuss topics that are relevant to completely opposite social groups - Bertolt Brecht

  5. The ideal audience has people of all economic classes and every social sub-group.

  6. Theater must be accessible to all of these groups.

  7. Therefore, theater must create the necessity for an audience to watch (and hopefully pay for) a theatrical performance.

  8. You must guarantee the spectator that gets up from his couch and puts his smartphone aside that it is worth turning technology off to go to the theater.

  9. The worst deadly sin in theater is to be boring. - Caca Rosset

  10. Collaboration is essential to the theater.

  11. Long-term collaborations are more beneficial to the actors, story and audience, because there is a bond of trust and understanding among the artists.

  12. The audience sees two plays: the story and the response of the actors to each other.

  13. Any attempt to turn art into an object of cultural, intellectual or economic value destroys the purpose of it.

  14. Any play in which the concepts superimpose the plot is doomed to live in the "intellectual" world.

  15. Intellectual analyses of art are wonderful and fun, but if they are not paired side-by-side with emotional/passionate analyses, they are irrelevant.

  16. The language of theater is international. It doesn't matter what language the play is in, if the "human" is present, magic happens.

  17. THEATER MUST BE GENEROUS.

  18. Theater is a gift to humanity. The moment you stop giving, and start worrying about survival, you're in trouble.

  19. In a theater, there is always someone who is watching a play for the first time and someone who is going for the last time. - Eve Doe Bruce

  20. Good theater manages to communicate beyond intellect, words and senses. It's the theater that travels from the actor's unconsciousness to the spectator's unconsciousness.

  21. Theater is an ecological reserve for human contact.

  22. Theater is the present.

  23. Acting is tribal. Theater is tribal. Storytelling is the heart of our tribe. - Ben Kingsley

  24. Theater is a primitive and ancient ritual.

  25. Theater is a ritual that is recreated night after night.

26. Theater is, therefore, religious.

The Format of Theater and its Audience
The Plays

  1. The greatest theatrical works ever written are famous because they are still politically and socially relevant today and therefore must be preserved and revisited often.

  2. New plays must be constantly written and produced as well, because present days are different from the past and present stories are also worth being told.

  3. New works mustn't ignore dramaturgical history, but try to incorporate and accept it instead.

  4. The story of a great play can be easily explained to a child.

  5. Look for the jo-ha-kyu: beginning, break, rapid.

  6. Create a moment that stops the audience.

  7. If the play is site-specific: embrace "God's direction", the unforeseen outside influences.

  8. Casting your audience will create a different quality of space.

  9. A great play will divide the audience: some will love it, some will hate it. Every play that generates indifference or unanimity is boring or fascist art and it's not worth it.

  10. Fascist art makes everyone feel small and the same. Humanistic art makes everyone feel different.

  11. Theater tells the stories of humankind - be it fictional or realistic (the stories we tell are stories we make up anyway).

  12. Plays are the most authentic pieces of history we have.

  1. Actors are not in the "generating emotion business". Our job is to create situations that will generate emotions in the audience members.

  2. "It's not about you. It's about going to hell and back on the inside and creating an experience for the audience" - Leon Ingulsrud

  3. Theater is make-believe, it's a children's game and must be treated as such. - Theatre du Soleil

  4. Actors are the shepherd of dreams. - Eve Doe Bruce

  5. Theater is a gymnasium for the soul. - SITI Company

  6. Theater is game. Always look for the "theater", not the "actor".

  7. When you are performing, my darlings, be free. - Rachel Jett

  8. Always try to make your scene partner look good. That is the best way of making yourself look good.

  9. If you don't see what you are talking about, the audience won't see it either.

  10. You are not training your everyday self, but your fantastic self. Your animal force.

  11. Actors must always help each other, even if it's not their role. If someone gets it right, they show us the way. If someone makes a mistake, they show us the obstacle in the middle of the way.

  12. Risk. Fail. Risk again. Fail better.

  13. When we believe, things happen.

  14. Part of the actor's job is to observe people. The actor that is unaware of the world he/she lives in and the people that inhabit it is a dumb actor.

  15. It's all about sex and faith.

  16. There is no right or wrong.

  17. In Noh theater (build on top of graveyards), actors used to stomp to awaken the dead and give them a chance to say their last words.

  18. The actor lends his body to the soul of the character.

  19. The character's objective never comes from the brain, but from the heart.

  20. If you let the character be larger than yourself, it lives.

  21. The human body is the actor's main instrument; therefore it should be treated with care.

  22. Everything in the body influences the actor. What you ate for lunch, if you shaved your legs. We have fully functioning reproduction systems that don't stop working when we're acting.

  23. Breathing is essential. Body is breath, breath is voice.

  24. The actor must be excellent at writing on stage, because he/she will be read.

  25. Respect the theatrical space. The stage is sacred. The audience is sacred.

  26. Be 100% present and open to everything.

  27. Be rigorous; don't allow small mistakes or sloppiness.

  28. It matters how you behave in rehearsal.

  29. Practice commitment. - Anne Bogart

  30. The artist is different than the actor. The "artist" is the way you live your life. - Ellen Lauren

The Actor's Job
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