Script Terms
Conversation between two or more characters.
What is Dialogue?
In one sentence: “I want ____ because ____.” This helps actors identify what?
What is Motivation?
The problem or struggle in the story.
What is a Conflict?
Planned dance/movement for a performance.
What is Choreography?
The pattern/shape a group makes onstage.
What is Formation?
Stage directions often include these two actions: coming onto the stage and leaving the stage.
What is Enter / Exit?
The reason a character does what they do.
What is Motivation?
The events of the story in order.
What is Plot?
The energy level of movement (soft vs sharp / strong vs gentle).
What are Dynamics?
Everyone doing the same movement at the same time.
What is Unison?
A long speech by one character.
What is a Monologue?
What the character wants overall in the scene.
What is Objective?
When and where the story takes place.
What is Setting?
The numbers used to keep dancers together (ex: “5-6-7-8”).
What are Counts?
A frozen picture using bodies to show a moment.
What is Tableau?
Written instructions in a script telling actors what to do (enter, exit, move).
What are Stage Directions?
The character’s plan to get what they want. (A strategy)
What is a tactic?
The person in the story (who the actor plays).
What is a Character?
How fast or slow the movement/music is
What is Tempo?
A formation can change to make the stage picture more interesting. True or False?
True
The planned movement and positions of actors onstage.
What is Blocking?
Something that gets in the character’s way.
What is obstacle?
The message or lesson of the story.
What is Theme?
A repeated pattern of beats/movement.
What is Rhythm?
Which term best matches: “Freeze and show the moment with your body.”
What is Tableau?