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June exam 2021 Flashcards

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What is preforming arts?

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Using the artists own body, face and presence as a medium to which a meaning is inferred

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What is dramatic arts?

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The art of writing a producing plays

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Why is warming up Important?

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1) It makes you less tense on stage
2) It increases your energy
3) It helps you prepare and focus on your performance

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What four steps should be done when warming up you body?

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Loosen up your spine
Loosen up your joints
Stretch all your muscles
Assess your posture

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Why do we do breathing exercises?

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We do breathing exercises so that our lungs can be filled to maximum capacity. It helps us project our voices and helps we don’t strain our vocal cords

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How do you do breathing exercises?

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First breath into your cavities
Then locate and strengthen your diaphragm, engage your resonators
Breath control

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What is vertebra?

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Vertebrae are 33 individual, interlocking bones that form the spinal cord

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What is alignment?

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Arrangement in a straight line or in correct relative positions

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What is neutral?

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A manner of maintaining ones body at a workstation in a relaxed position so that the joints are aligned, minimizing stress on the tendons, muscles and skeletal system

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What is a way to loosen up your spine?

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The spine roll

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How do you loosen up the neck?

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Drop your head forward so that your chin touches your chest. Then drop your head to the right. Then look up with your head, dropping it back and then to your left

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What shouldn’t you do when loosening up your neck?

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Don’t twirl your neck around, trying to roll your head 360 degrees. This causes harm and does not reduce tension

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How do you loosen your shoulders?

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The shoulder roll. Roll both your shoulders forward. Roll your shoulders back. Make swimming gestures

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How do you loosen your hips?

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You can do squats and do hula hooping

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How do you loosen your knees?

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Lie on your stomach, with your one hand in front of you. Pull your knee backwards, by pushing your toes down. Pull your foot down as much as you can.

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How do you loosen your ankles?

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Twirl your feet in two directions

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How do you loosen your feet and toes?

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Wiggle your toes

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18
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What muscles do you stretch?

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Thigh, calve, arm and side torso muscle

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How do you asses your posture?

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Walk in neutral. Be aware of your alignment and center yourself. Stand in neutral stance

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What is a cavities?

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An abnormal, thick-walled, air filled space within the lung

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What is the diaphragm?

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Located below the lungs, it is a major muscle of respiration. It is a large, dome shaped muscle that contracts rhythmically and continually, and most of the time, involuntarily

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What is a resonator?

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The part of the body that can vibrate in harmony with the voice

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23
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How do you breath in the cavities?

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By breathing into the torso stretch

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24
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How do you locate and strengthen your diaphragm?

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Get on your hands and knees. Locate the diaphragm by panting. Once you have located the muscle, go back onto your haunches and the stand up slowly while doing the sound. You will need to be patient with yourself as your muscle may be very weak and may take many sessions to develop

While standing are the sound sssssss as you inhale and fffff as you expel air

25
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How do you engage your resonators

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Big sighs: Feel the resonators
(If done with slight sound
Painting: Work from high to low in natural register (If done with slight sound)

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How do you do breath control?

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Measure your breath on a specific count, Initially start at 4 and over time increase your counts. So breathe in for four, hold for four and out for four. Breath in on one count, hold for one count and breath out slowly measure your count until you run out of breath

27
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Why do we do voice exercises?

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To Keep the muscles stretched so we don’t strain muscles

28
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How do we do voice exercises for facial muscles?

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Stretch like raisin face face, blow fish, long distance kiss
Tongue like ice cream, peanut butter licking
Jaw like jaw drop
lips like horse sound, popping sound and beat boxing

29
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How do we exercise our resonators?

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Hum gently within the natural register low to high

30
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What is head resonance?

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Head resonance should not be confused with head register or falsetto. It is used primarily for softer singing in either register throughout the range.

31
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What is mouth resonance?

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Mouth resonance is used for a conversational vocal color in singing and, in combination with nasal resonance, it creates forward placement or mask resonance.

32
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What is chess resonance?

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Chest resonance adds richer, darker, and deeper tone coloring for a sense of power, warmth, and sensuality. It creates a feeling of depth and drama in the voice.

33
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What is nasal/mask resonance?

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Nasal (mask resonance) is present at all times in a well-produced tone, except perhaps in pure head tone or at very soft volume. Nasal resonance is bright and edgy and is used in combination with mouth resonance to create forward placement (mask resonance). In an over-all sense, it adds overtones that give clarity and projection to the voice.

34
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What should you enunciate?

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Vowels and scales

35
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What should you articulation?

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The Letter P
The Letter B
Blue leather
Red lorry

36
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Why do we do focus exercises?

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To help us concentrate, especially in group projects

37
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What are some focus exercises we can do?

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This is a…
Hand circle
Mirror

38
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What can be said with the following statement? “Body is an instrument”

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Know your body
Take note: How are you in performance and in reality
Keep a diary

39
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What should you monitor about your attitude?

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You attitude towards others 
Your attitude towards yourself 
Your attitude towards the character 
Your attitude towards the situation 
Your attitude towards the props
40
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What is improvising?

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A type of theatre in which performers use improvisational acting techniques to preform spontaneously

41
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How long has improvisation been around for?

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It has been around since the 1500s

42
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When did improvisation gain popularity?

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It gained popularity in the 1950s

43
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Who made improve so popular?

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An American dramatist named Viola Spolin

44
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What did Viola Spolin do to make improve so popular?

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She developed a number of useful exercises for performers to use in order to develop

45
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What is the 4 points of improve?

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Be spontaneous
Be truthful
Have heightened awareness
Be responsive

46
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What is Spolin known as?

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The American grandmother of improv

47
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What does it mean to be spontaneous?

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Occurs without premeditation or external stimulus. Having a natural, uninhibited Manner

48
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What does it mean to have a reaction?

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Response to another event

49
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What does reaction mean?

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The actor is asked to work instantly with what they have at their disposal at the time

50
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What is re-acting?

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The skill the actor exercises in improvisational exercises is of reacting not acting

51
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What is heightened awareness?

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When a person is in a state of being more knowledgeable or conscious of something

52
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What are residential props?

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The props used to represent something which they are not. They are used to create an illusion of something that is not there

53
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How does the viewer understand the props?

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The viewer makes use of the information provided to interpret meaning
The performer presents a truthful reaction, a believable reaction that is why the viewers understands

54
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Why is improvisation important in performance?

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Improvisers typically use audience suggestions to guide the performance as they create dialogue, setting and plot right in front of the audiences’ eyes. Audiences enjoy the opportunity to mavel at the skill of an actor able to re-create a believable situation from almost nothing.
- Most improvisation performances tend to be comedic. If the show is comic, the audience enjoy the ability of the actor to make the situation funny.

55
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What does improv teach the actor?

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It teaches discipline of focus and encourages creativity and thinking on your toes. It helps to deal with unplanned situations in a performance; such as when another actor forgets a line and you have to cover up the mistake

56
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What does improv help with?

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It helps the actor understand the situation that the character is placed in

57
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Why is improvisation important in development?

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Some play writes get actors to improvise scenes to get a sense of how to write the natural dialogue
Watching the actors resolve the situations they are placed in, gives the writer a sense of how to develop the characters

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How is development in improv an inclusive approach?

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The process works on participants engage with equality. Previous knowledge is not more important than heightened awareness. The participant must engage from their experience
It is a process open to all actors of all training levels
The outcome will be the result of the input of many voices and perspectives as many actors provide their interpretation to the writer

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