Verbiage
Planning and working out the movements and stage groups.
What is blocking?
An instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.
What are 'stage directions'
Activities actors do on stage to look natural.
What is stage business?
Consideration for or acceptance in ourselves and others.
What is respect?
The musical tone of a voice.
What is pitch?
The art of acting silently through various kinds of theatrical movement. No dialogue or speech, but based in reality.
What is Pantomime?
The Audience and the management of audience needs including tickets, ushers, etc.
What is the House?
Using typical techniques of projection, articulation, and phrasing to show character's intentions and emotions, as well as provides the vehicles through which the actors interpret and give purpose to the scene.
What is delivery?
Actions that are different from the norm and often make us vulnerable emotionally or physically.
What is risk?
Intrinsic needs of a character: they might be external needs and relate to survival, but they might also be psychological or existential needs, such as love or professional achievement..
What is Motivation?
A form of critique where students are asked to perform real-world tasks that demonstrate meaningful application of essential knowledge and skills. (Do vs. show.)
What is a authentic evaluation?
A change in strategy or motivation.
What is a a Beat?
The areas off stage to the left and right.
What are the wings?
1. divert attention from (someone) towards oneself.The idea one has of one's abilities, appearance, and personality. 2. (of an actor) move towards the back of a stage to make (another actor) face away from the audience.
What is Upstage?
Instinctive or intuitive feeling as distinguished from reasoning or knowledge.
What are Emotions?
The process for selecting a certain type of actor, dancer, singer, or extra for a particular role or part in a script.
What is casting?
A group of people working together as a whole rather than individually.
What is an ensemble?
Participants assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create stories. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their characterisation, and the actions succeed or fail according to a formal system of rules and guidelines.
What is roleplay?
The way an actor responds to an audience and their surroundings.
What is Actor viewpoint?
The way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to a specific dialect, or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language.
What is Pronunciation?
Acting that is not planned or scripted. Usually has an underlying structure
What is Improvisation?
An assessment of strengths and weaknesses using criteria governed by a set of standards.
What is 'evaluation'?
An disciplined approach (such as Miesner and Stanislavsky) to learning how to best interpret a script.
What is an acting method?
The shaping and molding of sounds into syllables; clear enunciation when speaking.
What is articulation?
The area towards or behind a performance space.
What is backstage?