I've started back to classes this fall. (I teach acting and performance at a small university in Greenville, SC). One of the classes I'm teaching is Movement for Actors. This is one of my all time favorite classes to teach. The first third of the semester I have devoted to AT. I truly believe that actors needs to fully understand and be aware of their bodies before they dive into manipulating their bodies into various characters.
I'm finding, however, that I get so very excited that I want to tell my students EVERYTHING I know all at once. I have a great desire to give them (right away) everything I've learned about AT over the past 12 or so years. Talk about information overload!
I asked myself why I have this need. And I really think it's more of my habit of End Gaining. I fall back into my habit of wanting to present AT to my students in the "right" way. This of course puts a ton of pressure on me! I secretly desire my students to "get it right" so that they can be healthier people and more proficient performers. That secret desire is also extended to myself... I very much want to "get it right" and be a very good professor.
I was able to calm that End Gaining feeling down a little bit throughout that first class, but I know that it will be a struggle throughout the rest of the semester. Well... End Gaining will be a struggle throughout my life!
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