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The Expressive Skills are what we manipulate to play a character (in other words, acting!).
The Expressive Skills are what we manipulate to play a character (in other words, acting!).
The Expressive Skills are: VOICE, MOVEMENT, FACIAL EXPRESSIONS and GESTURE.
The Expressive Skills are: VOICE, MOVEMENT, FACIAL EXPRESSIONS and GESTURE.
We develop our expressive skills, as well as our ability to collaborate together to create stories onstage, through the process of...
IMPROVISATION
IMPROVISATION
IMPROVISATION is the key to creativity
We will improve our skills and develop material for performance using improvisation. Improvisation includes fun games you may have done before, like Space Jump, Death in a Minute, Voices Off… and may more ‘theatre-sports’ style games. But more than that, improvisation is happening every time we work without being attached to a particular outcome. When we are experimenting, exploring and engaging with each other to create a story or character.
The key to improvisation is to be open and responsive. To say YES!
In any story that we tell onstage, we seek to increase the audience's engagement (or interest) by increasing the 'drama'.
Some of the things that will definitely increase the ‘drama’ or make something more theatrical are:
STATUS: make choices about the characters that reveal who has higher or lower status or importance.
RELATIONSHIP: establish how the characters in the improvisation know each other, and/or how they feel about each other.
CONFLICT: any story needs conflict... between people, within someone, between a person and their circumstances. Otherwise the story doesn't go anywhere.
VOICE
VOICE
Ways you can manipulate your voice:
Volume
Pitch
Tone (Expression)
Pace
Emphasis
Accent
MOVEMENT
MOVEMENT
Ways you can manipulate your movement:
Posture
Walk (gait)
Quality of the movement in terms of: force, tension/flow, speed, direction of your attention
GESTURE
GESTURE
Ways you can manipulate your gestures:
Level of specificity
Particular to an activity with/without props
To reveal something emotional or pyschological
FACIAL EXPRESSIONS
FACIAL EXPRESSIONS
Ways you can manipulate your facial expressions:
Level of animation/exaggeration
Level of specificity to the inner feeling/intention
How much the character is revealing or guarding their inner thoughts of feelings.
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