Theory & Tools

Question 1

Mirroring

Answer 1

Repetition or mirroring of dramatic elements observed in the player’s behavior, playor picks up what is present. Aim is to present player with least discrepant information possible, though natural varielation will still occur. (covergent varielation)

Question 2

Repeating

Answer 2

Playing previously developed scenes, roles or images in order for the player to try new variations. (covergent varielation)

Question 3

Cycling

Answer 3

When player presents a relatively clear polarity in their behavior, playor alternates between each scene several times, often while transforming to Here and Now commentary. (covergent varielation)

Question 4

Joining

Answer 4

Playor becomes a character similar to that of the player, taking on same attitudes and behaviors. (though not necessarily mirroring movements and sounds) (covergent varielation)

Question 5

Faithful rendering

Answer 5

playing in a manner that fulfills dramatic needs of the scene, usually involving portrayal of the “other” evoked by player’s dramatic behavior. (congruent varielation)

Question 6

Intensifying

Answer 6

Exaggerating or minimizing a dramatic element. (congruent varielation)

Question 7

Defining

Answer 7

Playor helps the player develop the details of an image before allowing the scene to continue chronologically. (congruent varielation)

Question 8

Act Completion

Answer 8

Playor brings a scene to its logical conclusion when they sense the player wishes it but is hesitating our of fear or embarrassment. (congruent varielation)

Question 9

Emergent Varielation

Answer 9

Portrayal of the emergent image arising in the player’s dramatic behavior. Almost always different from existent scene (i.e. leakage). Emergent imagery is closer to what player is feeling in present, and does not fit in with existent role. Likely to evoke transformation into a new scene. (emergent varielation)

Question 10

Transformation to the Here and Now

Answer 10

Becoming oneself as the playor and addressing the player, expressing a feeling about session, while maintaining playspace. (emergent varielation)

Question 11

Action Interpretation

Answer 11

Transforming scene into a previously played personal scene in order to illustrate the connection between the two. (emergent varielation)

Question 12

Abstracting

Answer 12

Presenting the player with ambiguous, embodied image and allowing them to define it. (emergent varielation)

Question 13

Suspending

Answer 13

In middle of transformation, slowing down and transforming to here-and-now to discuss with player options for selecting roles in the emerging scene. (emergent varielation)

Question 14

Bracketing

Answer 14

Transforming scene into some form of theatrical production such as a play, movie, book, or rehearsal, without changing what is happening. (emergent varielation)

Question 15

Replaying/Rewinding

Answer 15

A form of bracketing when parties play out the scene again as it is were being rewound and replayed. (emergent varielation)

Question 16

Pre-empting

Answer 16

Choosing an action or role often taken by the player, before they do, in order to encourage them to make another choice. (emergent varielation)

Question 17

Sway/Armstrong/Vangogh

Answer 17

Subtle variations in the portrayal of a dramatic element in terms of intensity, proximity, quality or timing. Playor picks up on slight differences and then plays with them, having the effect of stretching, skewing, or twisting the encounter such that new feelings are experienced. As each element is varielated, playor attends to player’s response. (divergent varielation)

Question 18

Merge/Picasso

Answer 18

Playor simultaneously plays aspects of two or more characters, impulses, actions, especially if they are contradictory. (divergent varielation)

Question 19

Proximity Play

Answer 19

A type of sway in which the playor varies the distance between playor and player in a manner unrelated to the demands of the scene. (divergent varielation)

Question 20

Mist/Turner/Smudge

Answer 20

Playor becomes vague, smudges the images, extends the sounds, past the point where the player can identify them. (divergent varielation)

Question 21

Spinout/Dali

Answer 21

Playor moves away from the player, improvising material unrelated to the current scene as if the playor were by themselves. (divergent varielation)

Question 22

Spill/Wrench/Pollock/Monk

Answer 22

Playor introduces an irrelevant, discrepant image/movement/character that interferes with the flow of the current scene. (divergent varielation)

Question 23

Blank/Pinter/Beckett

Answer 23

Playor introduces a missing element in the play, by briefly not moving, speaking, or by pausing/freezing. (divergent varielation)

Question 24

Riff/Paker/Dizzy

Answer 24

Playor and player depart together from the surface scene, story, action, or picture, and play loosely related elements. (divergent varielation)

Question 25

Jitter/Meisner

Answer 25

A rapid back and forth between the parties using small variations off of repetitive elements. (divergent varielation)

Question 26

Play of Powers

Answer 26

Play of social and cultural roles. Expression and sharing of power. Demands for power relations to remain static or to be eliminated are replaced with a willing mobility and sharing in the exercise of power.

Question 27

Play of Possessions

Answer 27

Putting aspects of personal lives, real roles, histories, character, family dynamics, history into the play. Demand for separation and clarity is reduced, mutuality and permeability in relationship is expanded.

Question 28

Play of Passions

Answer 28

Putting desire into playspace. Demand for fulfillment of needs/denial of needs replaced by exuberance of desire, integrity from restraint, and greater patience.

Question 29

Play of Presence

Answer 29

Putting “being together/being with” into play. Demands for unity and order replaced by diversity and humility for not being whole.

Question 30

Difference

Answer 30

Distinction, out of which emerge elements/forms/concepts

Question 31

Preference

Answer 31

From distinction is preference, which is desire.

Question 32

Territory

Answer 32

Preferred elements are brought closer, unpreferred elements are pushed away, causing territory to emerge.

Question 33

po’a

Answer 33

the incompleteness of experience. the unknown, the absent, the obscured.

Question 34

h’ish

Answer 34

always inexact, the vagueness of experience, ambiguity, mystery.

Question 35

t’

Answer 35

always inaccurate, the associations we have with experience. there is always a better name for something, “its not this, its this”

Question 36

x’i

Answer 36

shifts in attention and awareness, inconsistencies in our attention

Question 37

what are the primary affects?

Answer 37

delight, alarm, awe

Question 38

What is the structure/order for leading groups?

Answer 38

Greeting, Rap, Entrance Structure, Sound and Movement, Defining, Personification, Structured Play, Unstructured Play, Exit Structure. GRES-DP-Sue