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Acting Basics

Subject : performing-arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. All parts of the actor--body - voice - and mind--work together in an integrated way.






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. All parts of the actor--body - voice - and mind--work together in an integrated way.






5. 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.






6. The exchange of action and reaction.






7. The ability to function on more than one level of awareness at a time. Ex: A character pursuing his or her objective simultaneously observing and adjusting the performance for the sake of the spectators.






8. The job a character was created to perform within a story.






9. Stanislavski's classic question. If I were in the situation of the character - and if I wanted what the character wants - what would I do?






10. The acceptance of responsibility for your own development through systematic effort.






11. 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






12. 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.






13. A person fully committed to an important objective.






14. Heightening the drama of an action or scene by making it more significant or urgent.






15. Becoming the new version of yourself by needing and doing what the character needs and does.






16. Showing the audience something about the character instead of simply doing what the character does.






17. 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






18. Meyerhold. The fusion of mind and body; teaching the 'body how to think'.






19. 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.






20. 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






21. He developed a presentational and overtly theatrical style of acting.






22. This occurs when: Everything the actor does as the character should grow directly out of the needs of the character - so that the 'inner' world of the character and the 'outer' world of the performance are unified.






23. The event itself. It is not 'about' something.






24. Relinquishing too much effort - chronic physical tension - a false voice - preconceptions about the work - personal fear - and most importantly who you already are.






25. Actresses began to appear on stage.






26. This occurs when: Everything the actor does as the character should grow directly out of the needs of the character - so that the 'inner' world of the character and the 'outer' world of the performance are unified.






27. The job a character was created to perform within a story.






28. The acceptance of responsibility for your own development through systematic effort.






29. Won an acting competition in Athens - Greece in 534 B.C. Considered the first actor.






30. Singular - Immediate - & Personal. (SIP)






31. Something a character lacks or wants that drives him to pursue an action to satisfy that lack or desire.






32. Becoming the new version of yourself by needing and doing what the character needs and does.






33. Meyerhold. The fusion of mind and body; teaching the 'body how to think'.






34. He developed a presentational and overtly theatrical style of acting.






35. The dramatic ______ is what happens in the story - scene - or beat in the most fundamental sense.






36. 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






37. Recalling a significant moment in your past to fit a character. WARNING: Must be appropriate for the character.






38. _____ causes an _____ directed toward an __________






39. _____ causes an _____ directed toward an __________






40. Singular - Immediate - & Personal. (SIP)






41. The physical form of the action of the scene expressed in changing spatial relationships between the characters and their environment.






42. The ability to function on more than one level of awareness at a time. Ex: A character pursuing his or her objective simultaneously observing and adjusting the performance for the sake of the spectators.






43. Actresses began to appear on stage.






44. 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.






45. 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.






46. The reduction of self-consciousness from the total engrossment in a role.






47. Something a character lacks or wants that drives him to pursue an action to satisfy that lack or desire.






48. The father of the modern actor.






49. Immediate and urgent needs cause actions in the pursuit of objectives within given circumstances.






50. 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