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Acting Basics

Subject : 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.






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






3. The exchange of action and reaction.






4. Actresses began to appear on stage.






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






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.






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






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






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.






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






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.






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






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.






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






15. A person fully committed to an important objective.






16. A person fully committed to an important objective.






17. _____ causes an _____ directed toward an __________






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






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 -






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






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.






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.






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






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.






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






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.






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






28. Finding in the character's situation some need or objective that has true personal significance.






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






30. _____ causes an _____ directed toward an __________






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






32. Stanislavski's physical approach to acting.






33. Stanislavski's physical approach to acting.






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






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






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






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






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






39. The great unifier of body - mind - and voice.






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.






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






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






43. The great unifier of body - mind - and voice.






44. Actresses began to appear on stage.






45. Finding in the character's situation some need or objective that has true personal significance.






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.






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.'






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






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.






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.






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