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Acting Motivation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Turn in the direction of your downstage hand
keeping open on stage while turning
stakes
fourth wall
pick up your cues
2. To keep your face and the front of your body as visible to the audience as much as possible
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
strategy
open
your topping the line
3. What your character wants
obstacle
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
Emotional Memory
objective
4. Using your own memories to help understand a characters emotions
Emotional Memory
action
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
cross
5. Result of action the characters take to overcome the obstacle
cold reading
outcome
Leading center
obstacle
6. A characteristic gesture
master gesture
auditors
focus
pick up your cues
7. Where an actor mirrors another actors position
keep open on stage while entering
Spiking the set
representational style
Shared position
8. A position onstage where one actor mirrors another actor's body position
shared position
subtext
working rehearsal
emotional memory
9. Chosen for a role
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
shared position
cast
10. Auditioning with a script you have not read
monologue
outcome
cold reading
keep open on stage while entering
11. Make crosses upstage in an upward arc
audition
keeping open on stage while crossing
callback
keep open on stage while entering through doors
12. Auditioning with a script you have not read
cold reading
shared position
stage business
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
13. To mark the floor of the rehearsal space to show the floor plan for the play
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
Spiking the set
objective
Leading center
14. A imaginary wall between the audience and the stage
cast
outcome
fourth wall
subtext
15. Present circumstances
read through
stage business
status quo
Upstaging
16. Information that is implied but not directly stated by the actor- thoughts or actions of a character that do not express the same idea as the spoken words.
subtext
presentational style
keep open on stage while entering
stakes
17. Turn your hand upstage
subtext
action
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
keep open on stage while entering
18. Your saying the line louder than the person before you
motivation
your topping the line
cast
strategy
19. A final line that signals an actor to begin the next speech
presentational style
cue line
open
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
20. Where the actors acknowledge the audience
cold reading
Shared position
obstacle
presentational style
21. Positive attitude - good communication - ask before you change your physical appearance
upstage
focus
pick up your cues
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
22. Turn your hand upstage
representational style
cold reading
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
monologue
23. Positive attitude - good communication - ask before you change your physical appearance
Beats
objective
keeping open on stage while turning
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
24. To stand upstage of another actor on a proscenium stage forcing the downstage actor to turn away from the audience to communicate with the actor - stealing the focus of the scene.
Status quo
upstage
Acting Generated emotion
keeping open on stage while crossing
25. Say your lines quicker after your cue line
pick up your cues
shared position
cold reading
monologue
26. Present circumstances
your topping the line
emotional memory
status quo
pick up your cues
27. When actors work on building characterization
keep open on stage while entering through doors
read through
obstacle
working rehearsal
28. Movements to strengthen the personality of the character
Leading center
keeping open on stage while crossing
stage business
Keeping open on stage while standing
29. A characteristic gesture
stage business
motivation
master gesture
strategy
30. The part of a characters's body that leads in movements - and reflects the nature of the character
keep open on stage while entering through doors
Status quo
Leading center
status quo
31. The people conducting the auditions
objective
auditors
upstage
outcome
32. What your character wants
stakes
objective
strategy
Acting Generated emotion
33. Full front - or one quarter left or right
your dropping line
Keeping open on stage while standing
sense memory
poise
34. Calling upon memories of your own emotions to understand the emotions of a character
keeping open on stage while crossing
emotional memory
obstacle
pick up your cues
35. Part in a play
role
Beats
poise
Upstaging
36. Memories of sights - sounds - smells - tastes and textures - used to define a character
Sense memory
cold reading
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
presentational style
37. Enter with your upstage foot
strategy
keep open on stage while entering
pick up your cues
Acting Generated emotion
38. Chosen for a role
cast
cold reading
poise
stakes
39. Your saying the line louder than the person before you
your topping the line
monologue
read through
Leading center
40. Open the door with your upstage hand
audition
motivation
monologue
keep open on stage while entering through doors
41. Using a one quarter to the person your talking to
poise
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
obstacle
42. Your memory of sights - smells - tastes - sounds and textures
cue line
outcome
sense memory
subtext
43. Where actors do not acknowledge the audience
Status quo
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
master gesture
representational style
44. Part in a play
pick up your cues
action
role
Keeping open on stage while standing
45. When actors work on building characterization
your dropping line
working rehearsal
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
stage business
46. What the character does
Upstaging
action
Spiking the set
cue line
47. A complete reading of the play
master gesture
read through
Upstaging
master gesture
48. Forces the downstage actor to turn away from the audience to communicate with the upstage actor
Shared position
leading center
Upstaging
your topping the line
49. When you preform actions and they generate an emotion within yourself
your topping the line
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
Acting Generated emotion
50. Make crosses upstage in an upward arc
cue line
keeping open on stage while crossing
strategy
Acting Generated emotion
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