Dan Foley

1. Bite into the muscle of the verse. Burrow down.
2. When learning lines, do it as meditative act like Anthony Hopkins.
3. Keep your energy UP.
4. Gesture at the end of a line to keep it lifted in your mind as practice.
5. Give audience time to adjust as they get used to the language.
6. Whisper your lines and then say them in a normal tone.
7. Think of rhythm of the piece but don’t let it control you.
8. If you can’t see the audience, they can’t see you.
9. Standing at a diagonal is a strong position rather than a straight line.
10. Disturb your space on stage.
11. Take your soliloquies to the audience.  Dialogue with the audience. Engage in interplay between yourself and the audience.
12. See the conflict of your piece and get it over to your audience
13. Feel the rhythm with your hands, then your feet, then your whole body. Do the Flamenco.