We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Fabiana Medici. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Fabiana below.
Fabiana, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.
The craft just came to me. I always wanted to be an actress and when I was 14 years old I finally began acting in plays. My very first role was Anne Frank and I came to learn on my own that I needed to do research to understand her life. I was very fortunate to study with amazing teachers such us Lito Cruz (my first instructor), Augusto Fernandez, and Norman Briski. In India and Europe, I found fellow actors and groups that were disciples of Peter Brook, and I learned from them as well as the great “unknown storytellers” in small villages. I also came to study with Geraldine Baron, Charlie Laughton, and Susan Peretz, among others. Most of my instructors studied directly with Strasberg, Meisner, Stanislavsky, Grotowsky, and Chekov. However, my biggest teacher was and still is life itself. I wouldn’t speed up my learning process. I think that learning IS the process. Why would I want to rush it? As an acting coach, writer, and former stage actress, the most essential skills to me are to observe, listen and empathize. Storytelling, dance, and movement techniques are incredibly important too. There are no obstacles to learning. Everything in life teaches us something and if we pay attention we are in a constant learning process.
Fabiana, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
I have spent my whole life in theatre. I have traveled worldwide working, studying, and researching all forms of expression. I encourage my students to find their journey of expression. Theatre cannot be taught. It’s like an ocean: you need to dive in. I guide students in their exploration and discovery of the human experience. My specialty is character study and human behavior. I have had successful results in getting actors to “behave truthfully under imaginary circumstances”. I like to use all forms of art to get the students to be the best that they can be in a safe, non-competitive environment, where each individual can bring their uniqueness and personal gifts to the stage/set. I particularly encourage ensemble work and collaboration since we, the artists, are co-creators. I have also found a lot of success in teaching a multicultural and diverse community of artists.
In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?
It would be incredibly beneficial to offer affordable education in every artistic discipline from a very young age for the child and their family. As I mentioned, art is a collaboration between the artist, their audience, their producers, etc. Artists could truly thrive if they are given financial opportunities and access to spaces where they can share their work with the world.
What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?
To be in touch with the human experience and human stories. To live life to the fullest to be able to create, and to find beauty even when it seems like it’s not there. I appreciate being in touch with artists from all walks of life and I am constantly learning new things and in awe of the never-ending bloom of human potential.
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