60 Practical Exercises for Beginners in Drama Stage Performance

Author: (French) Zheng Bixian
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: For many theater enthusiasts, stage performance itself is highly alluring, and showcasing one's talents on stage is a dream for many young people. This category of art, which is based on the expression of natural life forms, differs greatly from performing arts such as opera, dance, and other theatrical arts. Drama and film are the closest sister arts. Dramatic actors and film actors are almost identical in their fundamental use of their own abilities to portray characters. However, due to the distinct methods and results in their performance forms, creative processes, and audience reception of art, there are similarities in the basic qualities and professional skills required of actors engaged in performance. These qualities include observation, comprehension, imagination, attention, sensitivity, adaptability, physical and verbal expressiveness, as well as belief and authenticity, imagery, rhythm, and humor, among others. Based on the concepts of foreign performance teaching, this book summarizes the current teaching experience of performance majors in domestic art colleges. Through 60 practical training exercises, it helps young people aspiring to enter this field understand the basic knowledge of performance majors and the fundamental methods of creative performance art.