THE 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Quintilian, Declamation, Feldenkrais Method

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Theatre and Dance
• Course: THE 2000
• Professor: Mitchell Charles

Document Summary

Decorum- modulating your performance to avoid any excess was considered a great skill. (ex: switching emotions instantaneously) Came up with the system, more hand gestures (cid:863)scie(cid:374)ce of applied aesthetics(cid:863) Father of modern acting theory 2nd of 9 children. Affective memory- designed to produce emotional states appropriate to a scene, actors would get their (cid:862)e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)s(cid:863) fro(cid:373) their past e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)ces w/ jo(cid:455), a(cid:374)ger, fear, sad(cid:374)ess, etc. Movement and body awareness: rudolf laban, fredrick mattias alexanderand mosche. Vocal training- kristin linklater, arthur lessac, catherine fitzmaurice and cicelyberry. Technique (learned behavior) or feeling (something that we have)? (cid:862)outside i(cid:374)(cid:863) or (cid:862)i(cid:374)side out(cid:863) Theatre is about power, can highlight the issues of: Ethics- what is right and what is wrong. History: rhetorical tradition original greeks, rhetoric: the art of using language so as to persuade or influence others, the declamatory style, declamation: the repeating or uttering of a speech, etc. w/ studied information and gesture.