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1. The quality of an action or performance that makes it seem to be happening right now - before our eyes - as if for the first time.

2. The ability to function on more than one level of awareness at a time. Ex: A character pursuing his or her objective simultaneously observing and adjusting the performance for the sake of the spectators.

3. Recalling a significant moment in your past to fit a character. WARNING: Must be appropriate for the character.

4. Our relationship to ______ implies internal states to the audience. Ex: Willie Loman with a bent back is hopeless and defeated and losing his battle with _____. In musical theatre it is convention that lovers actually defy _______ by skipping - as if

5. All parts of the actor--body - voice - and mind--work together in an integrated way.

6. Won an acting competition in Athens - Greece in 534 B.C. Considered the first actor.

7. The condition of relaxed playfulness that some psychologists say allows for maximum creativity. When the inner parent allows the inner child to come out and play.

8. The ______ is what his or her character does to try to fulfill a need by attaining some objective. Stanislavski spoke of both spiritual (inner) and physical (outer). Note that speaking is one of the most common forms - in other words speaking is doin

9. A person fully committed to an important objective.

10. Becoming the new version of yourself by needing and doing what the character needs and does.

11. The reduction of self-consciousness from the total engrossment in a role.

12. Singular - Immediate - & Personal. (SIP)

13. Relinquishing too much effort - chronic physical tension - a false voice - preconceptions about the work - personal fear - and most importantly who you already are.

14. Immediate and urgent needs cause actions in the pursuit of objectives within given circumstances.

15. The father of the modern actor.

16. Showing the audience something about the character instead of simply doing what the character does.

17. The job a character was created to perform within a story.

18. Actresses began to appear on stage.

19. _____ causes an _____ directed toward an __________

20. The physical form of the action of the scene expressed in changing spatial relationships between the characters and their environment.

21. The dramatic ______ is what happens in the story - scene - or beat in the most fundamental sense.

22. The acceptance of responsibility for your own development through systematic effort.

23. The exchange of action and reaction.

24. The key to almost everything in acting. For an actor - _______ is not a reduction of energy but rather a freeing of energy and a readiness to react. AKA Restful Alertness. The first step in Letting Go. Awareness is at a high level.

25. Although it has a literal - physical dimension - being in a state of________ implies a unified sense of self that allows actions to involve the whole body and be well focused.

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