These are the words that you will hear from directors and coaches on the stage and in the film industry. Familiarize yourself with them so that you'll understand what they are talking about.
ACTING
1. Activity - what character physically does to accomplish objective.
2. Adjustment - how character feels.
3. Behavior - not responding directly as character feels
4. Contact - the adjustment shared as a result of mutual responding
5. High - so emotionally intense or passive you can not respond
6. Indicate - to project that which character does not feel
7. Institute - to project an impulse that illicits a response
8. Lucidity - perfect clarity of adjustments
9. Memory Stimulation - the use of something not immediate to respond to
10. Motivate - to substantiate objective, activity, or adjustment
11. Objective - what character wants to accomplish during each beat
12. Overall Objective - what character wants to accomplish throughout the entire play
13. Personna - social image one has of himself
14. Respond - to react directly to impulse
15. Substitution - the use of something immediate to respond to
16. Transition - change of adjustment
MATERIAL
1. Arbitrary - unmotivated or inorganic
2. Beat - unit of play smaller than scene delineated by change of objective
3. Bind - when character through his own doing can not advance ot retreat without personal damage
4. Character - psychologically who
5. Conclusion - result of conflict and completion of key or premis
6. Conflict - that which opposses objective
7. Dilemma - opening problem
8. Exposition - presentation of enough information for audience to empathize
9. Key - spiritual value of play
10. Metrics - particular choice and order of objectives, activities, and adjustments in script
11. Organic - that which proceeds seemingly and inevitably from what has been presented
12. Premis - intellectual value of play
13. Scene Symbol - when frame makes an analogy (symbol)
14. Sequence - metrics used to present a time development (such as growing old) AND group of activities used to accomplish objectives
15. Symphesis - presentation simultaneously of more than one time, locale, and/or situation
MOVEMENT
1. Alignment - vertical line of the body
2. Appendages - parts of the body: head, neck, arms, legs,feet
3. Bleed - bad blending or slurring between two phases of movement
4. Center - part of body chosen to dominate movement
5. Club - foot and toes arched back
6. Controls - image that produces movement and the physical means of delivering this image
7. Drop - quick fall to the floor
8. Economy - the prosaic qualified
9. Form - movement created or changed to reveal more
10. Form Walk - a walk formed to deliver essense of character at desired level of abstraction, based upon activity,and showing subjective and objective
11. In tension - moving with the body tensed
12. Interval - distance between performers
13. Isolation - moving one part of the body only
14. Over extending - to break alignment by extenson of appendage
15. Physical separation - moving two or more parts of the body in different dynamics simultaneously
16. Plie - a descent
17. Point - foot and toes arched forward
18. Primary - large movement
19. Prosaic - movement as done in life
20. Release - immediate relaxation following tension
21. Releve - tiptoes (on balls of feet)
22. Ronde de Jambe - arch with locked knees, pointed foot and toes
23. Secondary - medium movement
24. Tak - command to execute
25. Technique - physical vocabulary used to establish kinesthethic unity
26. Tension a specific type of contraction
27. Tertiary - small movement
28. Torso - body from neck to crotch
29. Transfer - change of weight from one part of the body to another
30. Warmup - preparing body for physical work
MIME
1. Abstract -
2. Capacity - working at the highest level of your effort
3. Conventions - pantomime or production symbols
4. Dynamics -
5. Empathy - the exact relationship between mime and audience
6. Form - movement created or changed to reveal more
7. Locale - performed convention for place
8. Locomotion - performed conventon for method and act of being transported
9. Lucid image - that part of activity that communicates the conventon
10. Mask - handling human face as a mask and the control it produces
11. Mime - actor playing mim symbols in form
12. Mime symbol - an activity created solely to communicate spiritual values
If it is done in the world, it must be so changed that it escapes the literal by playing more directly the sgnificance behind it
13. Pantomime - handling of imaginary objects or situations
b. the illusion of weight, textures, and comfortable movement in space
14. Positing - placing enough before an audience to be performing
15. Relationships - a scene portraying social, and psychological state of being between two or more people
16. Separation - playing simultaneously, activity and adjustment, usually not found together
17. Sign - arbitrary symbol