Movement Unit Flashcards
What are the six basic principles of movement?
Motivated, simplified, heightened, reveal character, open to audience, adjust to character actors on the stage.
What does motivated mean?
No nervously moving. Control your own body.
What does simplified mean?
An actor must use only carefully chosen movement that quickly and clearly conveys ideas.
What does heightened mean?
Since the audience is so far away from the actor, the actor must exaggerator heighten movements, especially wait to draw attention to objects or ideas that will be important.
What does reveals character mean?
Show your characters, personality, attitude, health, and age through their movement.
What does open to the audience mean?
Use a quarter turn so they you don’t have your back to the audience.
What is a quarter turn?
Use your upstage foot and hands mainly to ensure you don’t block your body accidentally for example, when taking a phone call, use your upstage hand so that your face is not blocked by the phone or your arm.
What does adjust to characters on stage mean?
Make sure that you’re not blocking another actor and that you are not blocked by another actor.
What does upstaging other actors mean?
Standing up stage from an actor, forcing them to turn their back to the audience to speak to you.
Where did no theatre first begin?
Japan
When did noh theatre first begin?
In the 14th century.
How many schools are there that train no actors in the hall of Japan?
Five.
What do Noh actors wear?
Complex masks and costumes.
What are the requirements to be a no actor?
Actors must be male income from acting families.
Describe what the actors do in Noh theater?
Actors move and talk very slowly.
