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Acting Basics

Subject : performing-arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Showing the audience something about the character instead of simply doing what the character does.






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






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






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






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






6. 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.






7. 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.






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






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






10. A person fully committed to an important objective.






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






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






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






14. A person fully committed to an important objective.






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






16. 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.






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






18. 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?






19. 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.






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






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






22. The exchange of action and reaction.






23. Actresses began to appear on stage.






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. Stanislavski's physical approach to acting.






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. 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.






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






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






31. 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






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






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






34. The exchange of action and reaction.






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.'






41. 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.'






42. German word for power. The actor's physical and vocal tools.






43. An actor devoted to searching for the truth of human behavior. The craft of working 'from the inside out'.


44. 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?






45. 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.






46. 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.






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






48. Actresses began to appear on stage.






49. 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.






50. 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.