When Acting Quietly Turns Down the Self
On presence, performance, and what neuroscience is beginning to notice For as long as I can remember, acting has felt less like effort and more like a particular state of attention. A way of being that arrives naturally when I’m fully engaged. Long before I had language for it, I knew the feeling, a moment […]
Disney’s Moana and the Theories We Can’t Let Go Of
Directed by Ron Clements & John Musker Moana invites theory because it isn’t as simple as it pretends to be. Beneath the color and music is a story preoccupied with fear, inheritance, and the cost of staying where you were told you belong. One interpretation I keep returning to reframes Hei Hei, not as comic […]