Body language is one of the artist’s most expressive tools. The performer communicates with the audience not only through text and proper intonation, but also sends non-verbal messages. Professional actors master the art of stage movement to perfection. They know where to move their hands or what posture to assume. This is the foundation without which you cannot create a coherent image of the character.
In real life our movements are natural. But on stage without preparation it is difficult to portray their naturalness and naturality. Even actors with great stage experience spend hours practicing every gesture, hand direction, and certain poses. They do not rush chaotically around the stage, but move according to the director’s idea. The art of movement is based on the development of the artist’s psychophysical qualities and the mastering of practical skills and techniques. What should an actor be able to do? Master the purity of motor skills used in front of the audience, to fill the movements with semantic nuances, to select the ideal speed, force, to give them structural and semantic certainty. Every gesture a professional artist strives for clarity, precision and maximum concreteness. The main criterion for the plasticity of the performer is the aiming of the physical action. It presupposes economy of movement, ability to take off muscle tension in time, proper execution of closed and open gestures. And verisimilitude. Without which there is no way to reach the audience’s heart.
What to Prepare For
As part of a stage movement course, students learn many disciplines and techniques, including:
- movement retrieval;
- techniques of stage expression;
- self-regulation skills;
- discovery and development of natural plasticity and grace;
- the fundamentals of stage movement;
- acrobatics;
- increasing the activity of the body;
- unblocking the clamps in the body;
- dance improvisation;
- filling the stage space.
In the process of training, future actors develop ease and flight of movement, mobility, increased physical tone, and dexterity. What challenges does a beginning performer face?
Double acting. When you need to perform 2 tasks at the same time. Distracting the attention of a partner on stage certain tricks, the artist in the form of his character should stealthily take a piece of paper from the nightstand. Make it look plausible, so that the audience believed in the game artist – a very difficult task.
Multitasking. The ability to combine speech, movement, singing and stage tricks. Such multitasking is only possible for experienced actors.
Motor trash. Frugality is the absence of unnecessary stage motor skills. When all the movements of the artist are aligned and precise. And those that do not solve the stage problem, but belong to the decorative sphere, are removed.
Action is the base of acting. In addition to the emotional immersion in the image, the performer seeks ways of expressing the inner content externally through sculpture. The highest form of plastic representation of the role.