Just worked with an #acting #coaching client on physicalizing vulnerability and allowing transparency into our character's inner life at stage scale. There are different thoughts about how on camera and onstage acting function, but playfulness is in both.

Hi! I'm Kanishka Banerjee, a #fitness #coach at #PalUpNow!. I found Genesis, an abandoned and injured #pitbull, took her #home, and nourished her for weeks to #help her find a forever home. Since then, Janki and I have adopted Oliver, a lovely pup, and are overjoyed to have him in our family!

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Constant Evolve | Kanishka Banerjee Heals An Abandoned & Injured #pitbull | #PalUpNow | #dog | #dogs
https://youtu.be/HBZx8eWOWjc

Just worked with an #acting #coaching client who is so good on material that is so good they could find ways the words shape the moments and sound of their voice. Such a joy to see them collaborating with the writer (who wasn't there, but their words were) so well. Cool how the performance can be infused by the words.

Worked with an #acting #coaching client on material that has their role make a big change at one moment. Experimenting with what drives each section differently and also what parts overlap got us some new pacing and other options. Very cool.

Worked with an #acting #coaching client exploring differences between trying to get what one wants by getting the other character to do something vs a subtle shift to trying to seek a personal internal experience one wants from trying to get the other character to do something. Cool subtle differences that help shape a scene's arc.

Just worked with an #acting #coaching client and had that wonderful moment where I had to glance at the script to make sure they weren't just speaking off the cuff (they weren't, they were doing the lines as written). So good seeing the words to become theirs.

Just worked with an #acting #coaching client on a role that is also performing one point in the material, kinda of play within the play style. Interesting to find the details and motives of the role, and of the role they are playing. Kinda like doing 2 scenes and roles at once.

Two #NFL #coaches in the #ConferenceChampionships are making headlines for their #LGBTQfriendly #hiringpractices.

#DanQuinn and #AndyReid both #hired #gay #coach #KatieSowers during their #careers.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Sports #Football #Representation #Culture

https://www.outsports.com/2025/1/26/24106587/dan-quinn-andy-reid-katie-sowers-gay-nfl-coach-afc-nfc-conference-championships/

Coached an #acting #coaching client and we were finding the human part of some #commercial copy that you could feel the corporate meetings behind. They found the way to make it sound like things someone would just say, normally, and it was great to see.

"...why acting takes more than our minds to do. It's why getting in our heads alone usually doesn't get the scene or the moment the life it really needs."

- me, in my article Lights Out

Read it at: https://bit.ly/lightsoutinspiration

Just worked with an #acting #coaching client with pacing. Punctuation, even good punctuation, is a suggestion when performing. Our own (and what's in the text and in the words) rhythms can reveal far more interesting things than slavishly following the marks on the page alone. Intrigued to see what they develop with this material.

Just worked with an #acting #coaching client on material that has a clear, down-the-middle interpretation. We explored ways to bring something not nail-on-the-head to it, something only this actor can bring to it. Seeing them find ways of being that no one else could do was beautiful. Looking forward to us finding them more.

Worked with an #acting #coaching client on the scale of a perfomance(like stage vs on camera) and the differences between what is real and what seems or feels real. Good times getting into what works.

Meet Anaya, son (#daughter, stop #misgendering #trans #people) of #star #cricketer and #coach in #India who underwent #sexchange #operation, says this for #Trans #Women (2 words. Trans is an #adjective, that #modifies the #noun #women.) in #cricket.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #India #Transitioning #Representation #Culture #Media #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia

https://www.india.com/sports/meet-anaya-son-of-star-india-cricketer-and-coach-who-underwent-sex-change-operation-says-this-for-transwomen-in-cricket-sanjay-bangar-anaya-bangar-aryan-7384255/

Just worked in the echo of current events with an #acting #coaching client on material they're developing. The city's sounds have been different since Tuesday, so it's present in our work too, unavoidably. Stress comes in many forms and doesn't have to define our performance, but it can be where we begin. The outlet of another #narrative is welcome and wonderful.

Updated the phone number on my acting coaching website: https://about.me/davidaugust

Worked with an #acting #coaching client on how oneself informs and can infuse a role that also is "nothing like you." You are always going to be part of it (even if only physically) and deciding or influencing how is more useful than pretending we actually disappear somehow.