Movement acting classes are essential for any serious actor and physical technique is important. Any serious actor looking to add an improved physical technique to their craft has this kind of training. Movement classes are important to serious actors. These classes help actors improve their physical performance technique. Physical movement is a key part of acting and actors must be aware of their physical space and their own movement during a performance.

Meisner work is intense and a movement class can go a long way to help support an actor's full immersion into imaginary yet, truthful circumstances, which is what the Meisner technique is about. Often, actor's tense up while performing, thinking too hard about their lines and a movement class helps them soften and open up more to the performance. The reaction of tightening up is common and seriously affects the emotional freedom an Meisner actor should be working toward. Actors are emotional and physical beings and they must remain open to all that is going on around them, or they will lose their emotional authenticity.

It is the rare actor that can finely tune themselves into the environment so deeply that they are physically totally present as they act and can react physically in an authentic way. For a Meisner trained actor, a movement class can help them achieve full physical awareness. We all develop physical habits as we relate to others, physical habits often borne out of our emotional state. Tense bodies result from anxiety, and our movement is affected. This kind of movement habit affects all interactions, even those that involve acting. Limiting for the Meisner trained actor, this constricted physicality can lower the emotional quality of the performance. Meisner actors benefit greatly from work in a movement class that helps to break their pre-existing movement habits.

Movement training cannot be defined in a way that is too limiting. Movement as it relates to the craft of acting is complex. Movement technique is about becoming more aware of the physical relationship to people around you and the surrounding space.

Physical movement of the body is not the only aspect of movement. In fact, movement relates to the body, to facial expression, body language and perhaps most importantly an awareness of sound. An actor moving around a space, the voices of other actor's, your sound as you inhabit a space can also contribute to a great performance. Listening fully, being completely aware of the voice, relating to the voices of the other actors is also part of movement training.

A constricted physical condition affects the voice. It could be that if the physical state is too open when a constricted voice is needed, movement awareness can help. Actor's that understand the finer points of movement and its relation to the emotional quality of a performance will become an exceptional actor. Actors trained to use their physical selves with movement training can enhance their emotional performances, making them more human and authentic. Only by working very hard to develop an awareness of movement and using to great effect, will the actor be fully present and authentic in their performances.