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Jun 11
6 min

Do you procrastinate?

First of all, you have to understand why you are procrastinating. There are different reasons why we keep postponing tasks.

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How to: Stay productive during the lockdown! (COVID-19)

Minie

Apr 4
6 min

How to: Stay productive during the lockdown! (COVID-19)

Most certainly, all of your gigs for the next few months have been cancelled because of the Coronavirus outbreak. What now?

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Minie Minarelli

Jun 17, 2018
1 min

Quote of the Week

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That firs

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Minie Minarelli

Jun 10, 2018
1 min

Quote of the Week

If you can see yourself doing anything else and being happy, by all means, go and do it. But if you cannot, if you cannot see yourself doing

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Minie Minarelli

Jun 3, 2018
1 min

Quote of the Week

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

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Minie Minarelli

May 27, 2018
1 min

Quote of the Week

Giving voice to characters that have no other voice - that’s the great worth of what we do.

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Minie Minarelli

May 20, 2018
1 min

Quote of the Week

I believe in fairy tales. They are the basis of all our performance of storytelling and film-making - when we twist the real events of the w

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Minie Minarelli

May 13, 2018
1 min

Quote of the Week

The on-stage Gracie may look poised, but the real Gracie is shy, a little self-conscious, and, before every performance of my life, panicky.

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Minie Minarelli

May 6, 2018
1 min

Quote of the Week

In a live performance, it's a collaboration with the audience; you ride the ebb and flow of the crowd's energy. On television, you d

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Minie Minarelli

Apr 29, 2018
1 min

Quote of the Week

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

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Minie Minarelli

Apr 22, 2018
1 min

Quote of the Week

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

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Minie Minarelli

Apr 15, 2018
1 min

Quote of the Week

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at t

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Minie Minarelli

Apr 8, 2018
1 min

Quote of the Week

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

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Minie Minarelli

Apr 1, 2018
1 min

Quote of the Week

f you live in the past that’s depression, and if you live in the future that’s anxiety. So you have no choice but to live in the present.

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Minie Minarelli

Mar 26, 2018
1 min

Quote of the Week

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care - that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have

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Minie Minarelli

Mar 19, 2018
1 min

Quote of the Week

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it’s there and then it’s gone.

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Minie Minarelli

Mar 12, 2018
1 min

Quote of the Week

A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock’n’roll, hosting, acting - it’s the same thing.

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Minie Minarelli

Mar 5, 2018
1 min

Quote of the Week

If all the circumstances of acting are made too easy, then there’s no grain of sand to make the pearl.

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How to relax before a performance: faces in the mirror!

Minie Minarelli

Mar 1, 2018
1 min

How to relax before a performance: faces in the mirror!

Hi there! Today I want to share with you a technique to control your anxiety before a performance! Have you ever tried this? Leave your c...

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Minie Minarelli

Feb 26, 2018
1 min

Quote of the Week

I believe so much in the power of performance I don’t want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on thei

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