Practitioners

Question 1

Anne Bogart: Body (2)

Answer 1

Shape - Curved/Angular

Gesture

• expressive
• stereotypical
• behavioural

Question 2

Anne Bogart: Space (3)

Answer 2

Spatial relationships - proximity
Topography - floor pattern
Architecture - manipulation of physical environment

Question 3

Anne Bogart: Time (4)

Answer 3

Kinesthetic response - impulsive movement, “stimulation of senses”
Tempo - rate or speed
Duration - prolonged or shortened movement in continuation
Repetition
- exact
- variation

Question 4

Anne Bogart: Voice (5)

Answer 4

Pitch - height of sound
Dynamic - projection
Silence - absence of sound
Timbre - where sound is sourced
Acceleration/Decelleration - speed

Question 5

Meyerhold: Biomechanics

Answer 5

Trained like machines (etudes: breaking down the mechanics of movement) so actors could operate efficiently and precisely

Movement before emotion

Terminology: biomechanics, etudes, controlled, stylised, experimental

Question 6

Meyerhold: practitioner characteristics

Answer 6

• use of masks
• stylised action
• concise language and sound
• physical acting
• gymnastics , circus and dance

Question 7

Meyerhold: style

Answer 7

• experimental, non-realism
• symbollic theatre
• expressionism
• surrealism

Asian acting style had an effect
Was heavily inspired by physical demanding theatre such as commedia dell’arte, russian folk, circus, east-asian dance etc

Question 8

Meyerhold: Sequence

Answer 8

• economical gesture
• largest, most exaggerated
• scale it down
• develop rhythm

Meyerhold over expressed everything so that when it was retreated down it was more realistic #drama

Question 9

Meyerhold and Anne Bogart

What type of practitioner

Answer 9

Meyerhold: experimental

Anne Bogart: contemporary

A DEAD PERSON CANNOT BE CONTEMPORARY