Stanislavski Work
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So recently we have been working on Stanislavski during our practical sessions.
We started our Stanislavski work by discussing the differences between realism and naturalism, this is a major thing to be able to distinguish as the majority of Stanislavski's work is based around naturalistic theatre and his "slice of life" philosophy. We started to work our way through Stanislavski's system and how we expected his actors to work:
First exercise:
- We were each told to imagine ourselves in certain settings, such as the desert, in a field. We also had to imagine the time of day that we were in that place.
- Then we were told to imagine that we were doing something around the house, or we were getting up in the morning. We each had to act out our motions of doing this.
I found this task overall ok, although I found it more difficult to try and act out the things that I had to imagine that I had never done before (such as go to a desert). One thing that I noticed I seemed to do during this exercise was try to exaggerate the actions that I was doing, this is because our 'inner actor' thinks that because the actions we are doing are quite boring (being in the kitchen) we then have to make them much bigger in order to make it dramatic.
We continued to work on Stanislavski's relaxation techniques during our practical sessions also:
The main relaxation technique we worked on involved all of us sitting in a group, crossing our legs and holding ours palms upward toward the ceiling. Once we had all sat in this position, we had to all make a constant humming noise, and if we needed to take a breath the noise was not allowed to stop. So we had to time our breaths in turn with each other so that the noise never stopped.
I found this exercise quite difficult at first because I was really self conscious about making this quite strange noise. But once we all started to make the noise, the exercise became much much easier.
We started our Stanislavski work by discussing the differences between realism and naturalism, this is a major thing to be able to distinguish as the majority of Stanislavski's work is based around naturalistic theatre and his "slice of life" philosophy. We started to work our way through Stanislavski's system and how we expected his actors to work:
First exercise:
- We were each told to imagine ourselves in certain settings, such as the desert, in a field. We also had to imagine the time of day that we were in that place.
- Then we were told to imagine that we were doing something around the house, or we were getting up in the morning. We each had to act out our motions of doing this.
I found this task overall ok, although I found it more difficult to try and act out the things that I had to imagine that I had never done before (such as go to a desert). One thing that I noticed I seemed to do during this exercise was try to exaggerate the actions that I was doing, this is because our 'inner actor' thinks that because the actions we are doing are quite boring (being in the kitchen) we then have to make them much bigger in order to make it dramatic.
We continued to work on Stanislavski's relaxation techniques during our practical sessions also:
The main relaxation technique we worked on involved all of us sitting in a group, crossing our legs and holding ours palms upward toward the ceiling. Once we had all sat in this position, we had to all make a constant humming noise, and if we needed to take a breath the noise was not allowed to stop. So we had to time our breaths in turn with each other so that the noise never stopped.
I found this exercise quite difficult at first because I was really self conscious about making this quite strange noise. But once we all started to make the noise, the exercise became much much easier.
