Auditions: What do directors look for?

[shando]

or are you standing there with your arms folded, staring at the ground, wondering what YOU'RE doing next?

Rafe Chase once said that this was the one behavior from improvisers that he could not abide. It kills your ability to play well.

Sometimes that pose means I'm intently listening. I look off to the side when I'm planning my next move. DIRECTORS BE AWARE!

I think it's easy to tell the difference. Also, watching is important too, as important as listening, 'cause you never know when important stuff is gonna be conveyed non-verbally.

[jillybee72]

If you are planning your next move, you are missing your now move.

[Jastroch]

I think it's easy to tell the difference. Also, watching is important too, as important as listening, 'cause you never know when important stuff is gonna be conveyed non-verbally.

Agreed 100%. It's a bad habit of mine sometimes.

[Jastroch]

If you are planning your next move, you are missing your now move.

Great point. I think that was a poor choice of words on my part. I should have said "waiting for my next move."

[Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell]

not to continue too much off topic, but if i have the impulse to do something that requires prepping off stage, is that "planning my next move" or just executing the first part of my prov in a way the audience can't perceive? honestly, 80% of the time i wind up discarding the choice anyway or the ideal moment passes, but i sometimes wonder if that prep is part and parcel of my improv, or if it's only what happens onstage that counts.

er, um, and as a director, i am looking and examining at for these thing type items as well. cough. topic.