Wear Your Passion

An ounce of prevention....

Actors -I have been avoiding chiming in about this but must finally speak. There is a lot of manipulation and abuse out there.  I  strongly encourage you to talk with new and professional actors for referrals about their coach / teacher. Additionally, I publish video testimonials from many of my actors so that folks hear from my students first hand. I would also tell new actors to check out exactly where teachers got their training. I worked hard for the privilege of calling myself a coach and teacher.  While I have been an actress since my childhood, and have credits in theater, film, radio and television, I have also trained to teach acting. I teach because it is my PASSION and I CAN versus many who "teach " as a fallback because they aren't working as an actor.  This, I believe, is where so much damage is done to aspiring actors. Then toss in a few  agents who think they know what acting is and you add another level of confusion and misinformation. We have a handful of good teachers and some wonderful agents and CD's in the state. Do your research.   - TASA Studio, Mary Thoma

LEARNING TO FALL, SLAP, PUNCH AND MORE

Kudos to THE RAT PACK for an entertaining and educational workshop on the basic skills of unarmed combat! We had a dozen men and women who learned to fall with grace, throw a punch, take a slap and more!  A great Saturday morning at the Studio!

The prize isn't " out there"...

Kevin Spacey on success.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cwnic_bZT4&feature=player_embedded#at=39

TASA ACTING CAMPS

TASA ACTING CAMPS 2011

TASA Studio JUMP START ACTING CAMPS offer a chance to get a jump-start on breaking into the film business right here at home!   Students leave our ACTING CAMP with the information and tools necessary to get a JUMP START into the business: web-proofs and a printed headshot/ photographer release, resume, a DVD copy of your performance, acting and audition classes and much more!

ACTING CAMP will be taught by TASA STUDIO director and SAG Actress Mary Thoma and TASA STUDIO staff.  Joining Ms. Thoma will be headshot photographer, Michael Boyd and BAM Casting Director, Tara Duncil.   A Parent ”Q and A"about the business and a review of student work will be held on the final day of camp for the student camps.

Registration is limited to the first 18 students who register with a 25% down payment to hold your spot.   

CAMP 1   STUDENT           June 13-17                          Ages 7- 17 years         10-5 pm

CAMP 2   STUDENT           June 20 -24                         Ages 7- 17 years         10-5 pm

CAMP 3   ADULT               July 25-29                         Ages 18 + years        10- 5 pm

Fee for the one week ACTING CAMP is $ 499. REGISTRATION DEADLINE:  TWO WEEKS prior to camp. For more information or to register, contact TASA Studio Director, Mary Thoma at 318.465.5374 or email Mary@marythoma.com  

True Greatness

"Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind." ~ Quincy Jones

Music producer Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. (1933-), called "Q" by his friends, was born poor on this day in Chicago's South Side. Growing up, the music he heard on the radio stimulated his vision and creativity.

"Everything starts with a song or a story," he declared. "That drives everything."

When he was 41, Q survived a brain aneurysm and two brain operations. The experience inspired him to celebrate life daily: "God has given each one of us approximately 25,000 days on this earth. I truly believe He (or She) has something very specific in mind: 8,300 days to sleep, 8,300 to work, 8,300 to give, live, play, pray, and love one another."

Over the past five decades he has creatively fused music with his own style. Injecting soul and jazz, experimenting with synthesizers, innovating the mainstream pop world.

Q produced the historic We Are The World: U.S.A For Africa in 1991 to raise money for famine relief. He advised the multi-million dollar chorus of superstars to "check your egos at the door." They did.

"The only two people Quincy doesn't know in the music business are Beethoven and Bach," observed singer Lionel Richie.

Highly-respected and multi-awarded, Quincy Jones knows what makes greatness, true greatness: love, respect, and peace of mind.

~~True greatness is having love, respect, and peace of mind.

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Wholeness and Balance

Health is wholeness and balance, an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed."  - Andrew Weil, MD