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Uta Hagen, who was awarded a National Medal of the Arts two years before her death in 2004, was one of the most influential acting teachers of her generation. Her students included Matthew Broderick, Jason Robards, Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, and Al Pacino, among many others. These DVDs, edited from nearly two hundred hours of recorded classes, put you and your students in the front row in her studio. “Will watching this video make you a better actor, director, or teacher?” asks former student David Hyde Pierce. “Yes, yes, and yes.”
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For the Uta Hagen exercises, you will always be yourself. But in life, you are always different, depending on the very specific circumstances that you're engaged in. Who are you this time? What is your present state of being? How do you perceive your self? What are you wearing and how does that affect how you perceive yourself?
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[P]erhaps the most useful sections in this book are the exercises that Uta Hagen has created and elaborated to help the actor learn his craft. The exercises deal with developing the actor's physical destination in a role; making changes in the self serviceable in the creation of a character; recreating physical sensations; bringing the outdoors on stage; finding occupation while waiting; talking to oneself and the audience; and employing historical imagination
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Uta Hagen, one of the world's most renowned stage actresses, has ... taught acting for more than forty years at the HB Studio in New York. Her first book, Respect for Acting, published in 1973, is still in print and has sold more than 150,000 copies. In her new book, A Challenge for the Actor, she greatly expands her thinking about acting in a work that brings the full flowering of her artistry, both as an actor and as a teacher. She raises the issue of the actor's goals and examines the specifics of the actor's techniques. She goes on to consider the actor's relationship to the physical and psychological senses. There is a brilliantly conceived section on the animation of the body and mind, of listening and talking, and the concept of expectation.
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A legend is playing a legend when Uta Hagen appears in the title role of "Mrs. Klein," Nicholas Wright's drama about the pioneering psychoanalyst, which opened last night at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater. This is the actress who played Nina with the Lunts in "The Seagull" and Desdemona to Paul Robeson's Othello, who originated Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" You expect Great Acting from her, and that's what you get. Her performance is an immensely impressive technical tour de force.
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Uta Hagen was born in Germany. When she was seven, her parents emigrated to the United States and settled in Madison, Wisconsin. Her father secured work as a professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He established its Art History department. In the DVD, Hagen talks about how she used her relationship with her father to help her create her character in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" She tells wonderful stories about acting with both Marlon Brando and Anthony Quinn in "A Streetcar Named Desire."
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