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Acting Basics
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. He developed a presentational and overtly theatrical style of acting.
Acting
Emotion Memory
Beat
Vsevolod Meyerhold
2. Singular - Immediate - & Personal. (SIP)
Discipline
Creative State
Objectives should be...
Personal Center
3. The exchange of action and reaction.
Aristotle
Stanislavski's Actor
Raising the Stakes
Interaction
4. Actresses began to appear on stage.
Discipline
Constatin Stanislavski
1660s
Emotion Memory
5. Recalling a significant moment in your past to fit a character. WARNING: Must be appropriate for the character.
Emotion Memory
Beat
A play
Letting Go
6. The condition of relaxed playfulness that some psychologists say allows for maximum creativity. When the inner parent allows the inner child to come out and play.
The Genesis of Acting
Centeredness
Letting Go
Creative State
7. All parts of the actor--body - voice - and mind--work together in an integrated way.
Wholeness
Raising the Stakes
Discipline
Personal Center
8. Something a character lacks or wants that drives him to pursue an action to satisfy that lack or desire.
Need
Thespis
Indicating
Letting Go
9. The quality of an action or performance that makes it seem to be happening right now - before our eyes - as if for the first time.
Blocking
Immediacy
Stanislavski's Actor
Magic If
10. Showing the audience something about the character instead of simply doing what the character does.
Centeredness
Indicating
Acting
The Method of Physical Actions
11. The condition of relaxed playfulness that some psychologists say allows for maximum creativity. When the inner parent allows the inner child to come out and play.
Discipline
Creative State
Action in a Play or Film Script
Emotion Memory
12. The event itself. It is not 'about' something.
Dramatic Function
Stanislavski's Actor
A play
Indicating
13. Although it has a literal - physical dimension - being in a state of________ implies a unified sense of self that allows actions to involve the whole body and be well focused.
Centeredness
Biomechanics
Blocking
Truthful Performance
14. Meyerhold. The fusion of mind and body; teaching the 'body how to think'.
1660s
Emotion Memory
Aristotle
Biomechanics
15. A person fully committed to an important objective.
Acting
In Action
Vsevolod Meyerhold
Wholeness
16. A person fully committed to an important objective.
In Action
Beat
1660s
Truthful Performance
17. _____ causes an _____ directed toward an __________
Wholeness
Gravity
Thespis
Need; Action; Objective
18. Our relationship to ______ implies internal states to the audience. Ex: Willie Loman with a bent back is hopeless and defeated and losing his battle with _____. In musical theatre it is convention that lovers actually defy _______ by skipping - as if
Gravity
Creative State
Aristotle
Dramatic Function
19. Male choir groups began competing against one another reciting poems at religious festivals in Ancient Greece. Gradually the choir leader began to speak as an individual character and acting was born. As a second actor was added - dialogue emerged -
Breath
Raising the Stakes
The Genesis of Acting
Magic If
20. The job a character was created to perform within a story.
Objectives should be...
Indicating
Dramatic Function
Need; Action; Objective
21. An actor's ability to put himself in the place of another person - both for purposes of observation and for applying the Magic If to a role. It is possible to empathize with someone without sympathizing with that person.
Immediacy
The Method of Physical Actions
Letting Go
Empathy
22. A unit of action with it's own specific conflict and crisis. In each one a character has a single objective. They are formed of interactions and flow to create the underlying structure of a scene.
Beat
Action (for an Actor)
Blocking
Relaxation
23. The physical form of the action of the scene expressed in changing spatial relationships between the characters and their environment.
Stanislavski's Actor
Magic If
Aristotle
Blocking
24. Although it has a literal - physical dimension - being in a state of________ implies a unified sense of self that allows actions to involve the whole body and be well focused.
Discipline
Immediacy
Centeredness
Letting Go
25. Becoming the new version of yourself by needing and doing what the character needs and does.
Objectives should be...
Transformation
Beat
Empathy
26. The key to almost everything in acting. For an actor - _______ is not a reduction of energy but rather a freeing of energy and a readiness to react. AKA Restful Alertness. The first step in Letting Go. Awareness is at a high level.
Blocking
The Method of Physical Actions
Relaxation
Beat
27. All parts of the actor--body - voice - and mind--work together in an integrated way.
Action (for an Actor)
Biomechanics
Gravity
Wholeness
28. Finding in the character's situation some need or objective that has true personal significance.
Interaction
Substitution
Constatin Stanislavski
Immediacy
29. The ______ is what his or her character does to try to fulfill a need by attaining some objective. Stanislavski spoke of both spiritual (inner) and physical (outer). Note that speaking is one of the most common forms - in other words speaking is doin
Action (for an Actor)
Dramatic Function
Transformation
Objective
30. _____ causes an _____ directed toward an __________
Need; Action; Objective
Demonstration
Interaction
Demonstration
31. The dramatic ______ is what happens in the story - scene - or beat in the most fundamental sense.
A play
Truthful Performance
Action in a Play or Film Script
Beat
32. Stanislavski's physical approach to acting.
Constatin Stanislavski
Letting Go
Need; Action; Objective
The Method of Physical Actions
33. Stanislavski's physical approach to acting.
Personal Center
The Method of Physical Actions
Wholeness
Centeredness
34. Three finger widths below your navel. The origin of breath and therefore your voice - as well as all large motions of the body. The undistorted source from which our work begins in order to develop the unique ways of using our bodies and voice requir
Emotion Memory
1660s
Craft
Personal Center
35. Heightening the drama of an action or scene by making it more significant or urgent.
Biomechanics
Letting Go
1660s
Raising the Stakes
36. The ______ is what his or her character does to try to fulfill a need by attaining some objective. Stanislavski spoke of both spiritual (inner) and physical (outer). Note that speaking is one of the most common forms - in other words speaking is doin
Letting Go
Demonstration
Action (for an Actor)
Wholeness
37. Something a character lacks or wants that drives him to pursue an action to satisfy that lack or desire.
Vsevolod Meyerhold
Justified
Need
Letting Go
38. Heightening the drama of an action or scene by making it more significant or urgent.
Emotion Memory
Demonstration
1660s
Raising the Stakes
39. The great unifier of body - mind - and voice.
Aristotle
Breath
Need
Emotion Memory
40. Bertolt Brecht's idea that the actor does not become the character completely - but rather demonstrates the character's behavior for the audience while still expressing some attitude about it.
Stanislavski's Actor
Blocking
Demonstration
Wholeness
41. The acceptance of responsibility for your own development through systematic effort.
Raising the Stakes
Discipline
Objective
Justified
42. Showing the audience something about the character instead of simply doing what the character does.
Dramatic Function
Acting
Indicating
Truthful Performance
43. The great unifier of body - mind - and voice.
Breath
Blocking
Objectives should be...
Action in a Play or Film Script
44. Actresses began to appear on stage.
Truthful Performance
A play
1660s
Demonstration
45. Finding in the character's situation some need or objective that has true personal significance.
Need; Action; Objective
Relaxation
Vsevolod Meyerhold
Substitution
46. The quality of an action or performance that makes it seem to be happening right now - before our eyes - as if for the first time.
Dramatic Function
Dramatic Function
Public Solitude
Immediacy
47. The goal of a character pursues through action to satisfy a need. It is best identified using a transitive verb such as - 'to persuade him to give me a territory in town.'
Transformation
Creative State
Constatin Stanislavski
Objective
48. Won an acting competition in Athens - Greece in 534 B.C. Considered the first actor.
Substitution
Thespis
Stanislavski's Actor
Wholeness
49. Bertolt Brecht's idea that the actor does not become the character completely - but rather demonstrates the character's behavior for the audience while still expressing some attitude about it.
The Genesis of Acting
Need
Demonstration
Constatin Stanislavski
50. Believed the qualities of a good play and a good actor should be: 1) Believable 2) Connect with the audience in a personal way. AKA Empathy 3) Immediacy 4) Communicate 'truthfulness'. Present experiences in a meaningful way relative to the audience.
The Genesis of Acting
Vsevolod Meyerhold
Raising the Stakes
Aristotle
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