![]() Adler believed that students who approached acting in this fashion often pursued their training and their craft with a greater passion and commitment.ĭon’t use your conscious past. She encouraged her students to enter the field of acting with a strong point of view and mission, and to use the theatre to express their ideals. Stella Adler was a proponent for independent thinking among actors. If that is acting, I don’t want to do it.” She said, “Drawing on the emotions I experienced – for example, when my mother died – to create a role is sick and schizophrenic. And while her acting method has similarities to these two renowned icons, she separates herself from the pack by adding the power of imagination to the concept of emotional recall.Īdler believed that focusing too much on recalling personal emotions was not a healthy way to approach the art of acting. ![]() ![]() Adler was said to one of the few American actors who actually studied with Stanislavski. As the daughter of professional actors, Stella Adler made her own acting debut at the age of four, as a member of her parents’ Independent Yiddish Art Company.Īmong Adler’s influences were Konstantin Stanislavski and Lee Strasberg. Stella Adler (1901-1992), actress, teacher, and founder of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, devised a unique style of acting that centered on an actor’s imagination.
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