Performing Roles | Everyday Life
In the theatre, the actor and the audience both know the actor is "not" who they are playing. But in "real life" a person is simultaneously performing themself as well as this.
What is "being themself?"
Acting that appears natural because it is based on behaviors people learn from infancy.
A performance displaying semiotically systemized gestures, movements, songs, costumes, makeup, and dramas passed on from generation to generation.
What is Codified Performing?
The foundation of American actor training.
Who is Konstantin Stanislavsky?
Everything from stage acting to ballet dancing to arguing a case in court to displaying different emotions by smiling, weeping, frowning, or glaring in anger.
What is the board spectrum of performance?
What are executions?
What is Nonmatrixed performance?
She carefully juxtaposes one character, one corporation, to another, she opens Brechtian spaces for humor, irony, and social dialogue.
Who is Anna Deavere Smith?
Established his own training method based on Stanislavsky by focusing on spontaneous reaction as well as listening and responding.
Who is Sanford Meisner?
What is the continuum of acting?
The degree to which a person believes their own performance spans a continuum with the tendency to accept ourselves "as performed."
What is Goffman's "Self-Belief?"
The first instance of "Conventional acting" where a situation, costume, setting, or actor is pretending to create characters other than themselves.
What is "Received Acting?"
What is "Sports?"
Who is Lee Strasburg?
The performer does not hide behind the attributes of the role or disappear into the role. The performer takes a position to some degree outside the role, engaging the role and even criticizing the character. The audience is aware of the tension that both draws the performer to the role and separates her from the role.
What is Brechtian Performing?
Examples of the words like "act" and "action" as well as "acting is evil," "rogue states," and "bad actors."
What are social scripts?
He pioneered realistic dramas dealing with the personal and social interactions of middle-class characters as seen in A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and Peer Gynt.
Who is Henrik Ibsen?
The ability to express deep feelings that are shared within the strict confines, as attested to by many performers and spectators.
What is the richness of Codified form?
Believing imagination was more important he focused on ‘Four Brothers’ of ease, form, beauty, and wholeness.
Who is Michael Chekhov?
One behavior is real, and one behavior is pretend. One is you as yourself and the other is you playing someone else.
What is the difference between life and stage?
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
According to Schnechner, more inclusive categories to understand acting, include:
1. realistic
2. Brechtian
3. codified
4. trance
5. objects - masks and puppets
What are the five kinds of performing?
The codified performing in the arts, where artists take already coded everyday behavior and further refine, distort, exaggerate, and/or minimize it.
What is "double coding?"
American playwright in the realist style, that wrote All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge, The Crucible, and Broken Glass.
Who is Arthur Miller?
All behavior is restored, made up of new combinations of previously enacted doings.
What is "twice-behaved" behavior?