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For the legal meaning, see Acting (law). For the military characterin theatre, television, lm, radio, or any other
sense, see Acting (rank).
medium that makes use of the mimetic mode.
Acting is an activity in which a story is told by means
Acting involves a broad range of skills, including a welldeveloped imagination, emotional facility, physical expressivity, vocal projection, clarity of speech, and the
ability to interpret drama. Acting also often demands an
ability to employ dialects, accents, improvisation, observation and emulation, mime, and stage combat. Many
actors train at length in specialist programmes or colleges
to develop these skills. The vast majority of professional
actors have undergone extensive training. Actors and actresses will often have many instructors and teachers for
a full range of training involving singing, scene-work, audition techniques, and acting for camera.
Most early sources in the West that examine the art of
acting (Greek: , hypokrisis) discuss it as part
of rhetoric.[1]
4 IMPROVISATION
Training
to four-year training on all aspects of acting. Universities mostly oer three- to four-year programs, in which
a student is often able to choose to focus on acting,
whilst continuing to learn about other aspects of theatre.
Schools vary in their approach, but in North America the
most popular method taught derives from the 'system' of
Konstantin Stanislavski, which was developed and popularised in America as method acting by Lee Strasberg,
Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner, and others.
Improvisation as an approach to acting formed an important part of the Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin
Stanislavski's 'system' of actor training, which he developed from the 1910s onwards. Late in 1910, the playwright Maxim Gorky invited Stanislavski to join him in
Capri, where they discussed training and Stanislavskis
emerging grammar of acting.[2] Inspired by a popular
theatre performance in Naples that utilised the techniques
of the commedia dell'arte, Gorky suggested that they form
a company, modelled on the medieval strolling players,
in which a playwright and group of young actors would
devise new plays together by means of improvisation.[3]
Stanislavski would develop this use of improvisation in
his work with his First Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre.[4] Stanislavskis use was extended further in the approaches to acting developed by his students, Michael
Chekhov and Maria Knebel.
Semiotics of acting
cess that he describes as establishing the "not/but" element in a performed physical "gestus" within context of
the plays overal "Fabel". Eugenio Barba argues that actors ought not to concern themselves with the signicance
of their performance behaviour; this aspect is the responsibility, he feels, of the director, who weaves the signifying elements of an actors performance into the directors
dramaturgical montage.
The theatre semiotician Patrice Pavis, alluding to the
contrast between Stanislavskis 'system' and Brechts
demonstrating performerand, beyond that, to Denis
Diderot's foundational essay on the art of acting, Paradox
of the Actor (c. 177078)argues that:
Acting was long seen in terms of the actors sincerity or hypocrisyshould he believe
in what he is saying and be moved by it, or
should he distance himself and convey his role
in a detached manner? The answer varies according to how one sees the eect to be produced in the audience and the social function
of theatre.[5]
Elements of a semiotics of acting include the actors gestures, facial expressions, intonation and other vocal qualities, rhythm, and the ways in which these aspects of an individual performance relate to the drama and the theatrical event (or lm, television programme, or radio broadcast, each of which involves dierent semiotic systems)
considered as a whole.[5] A semiotics of acting recognises that all forms of acting involve conventions and
codes by means of which performance behaviour acquires
signicanceincluding those approaches, such as Stanislvaskis or the closely related method acting developed in
the United States, that oer themselves as a natural kind
of acting that can do without conventions and be received
as self-evident and universal.[5] Pavis goes on to argue
that:
Any acting is based on a codied system (even if the audience does not see it as
such) of behaviour and actions that are considered to be believable and realistic or articial and theatrical. To advocate the natural, the
spontaneous, and the instinctive is only to attempt to produce natural eects, governed by
an ideological code that determines, at a particular historical time, and for a given audience, what is natural and believable and what
is declamatory and theatrical.[5]
The conventions that govern acting in general are related
to structured forms of play, which involve, in each specic experience, "rules of the game.[6] This aspect was
rst explored by Johan Huizinga (in Homo Ludens, 1938)
and Roger Caillois (in Man, Play and Games, 1958).[7]
Caillois, for example, distinguishes four apects of play
REFERENCES
Anne Bogart
Bertolt Brecht
Peter Brook
Joseph Chaikin
Michael Chekhov
Jacques Copeau
Jerzy Grotowski
Maria Knebel
Jacques Lecoq
Joan Littlewood
Sanford Meisner
Vsevolod Meyerhold
Ariane Mnouchkine
Michel Saint-Denis
Wodzimierz Staniewski
Konstantin Stanislavski
Lee Strasberg
Rehearsing
Rehearsal is a process in which actors prepare and practise a performance, exploring the vicissitudes of conict
between characters, testing specic actions in the scene,
and nding means to convey a particular sense. Some actors continue to rehearse a scene throughout the run of a
show in order to keep the scene fresh in their minds and
exciting for the audience.
8 References
[1] Csapo and Slater (1994, 257); hypokrisis, which literally means acting, was the word used in discussions of
rhetorical delivery.
[2] Benedetti (1999, 203) and Magarshack (1950, 320).
[3] Benedetti (1999, 203-204) and Magarshack (1950, 320321).
See also
Biomechanics
Meisner technique
Method acting
Presentational and representational acting
Stanislavskis system
Viewpoints
Stella Adler
Eugenio Barba
Augusto Boal
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