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시즌 1 에피소드 1 - The Performance Triangle
2014년 8월 28일31분Consider how people learn stage presence - a process of cultivating self-awareness and practical skills in an environment of trust and support. Begin with the three building blocks of performance technique: a "triangle" formed by mental focus, your physical life, and your speaking voice. Create a safe and comfortable physical space for the work you'll do.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기시즌 1 에피소드 2 - Modern Acting Technique
2014년 8월 28일30분Discover how modern acting technique is built around a commitment to enact a specific purpose onstage. Then explore two psychological approaches to performance: performance from the "inside out" and performance from the "outside in." Begin to look at ways to find purpose in dramatic material, and also as it applies to public speaking and presenting.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기시즌 1 에피소드 3 - Building a Character
2014년 8월 28일32분Now learn an effective system for clarifying and connecting with your purpose onstage, or in front of any audience. Using the characters of Blanche and Stanley from Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, explore acting teacher Uta Hagen's "Nine Questions," which elucidate a character's identity, given circumstances, and motivations.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기시즌 1 에피소드 4 - Analyzing Backstory and Motivation
2014년 8월 28일31분Continuing with the Nine Questions, learn how a dramatic character's circumstances affect their behavior, and how actors use a character's obstacles and tactics to overcome them in pursuing the character's purpose onstage. Then, see how to use the Nine Questions in public speaking, using the example of a famous speech by Barbara Bush.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기시즌 1 에피소드 5 - Identifying Your Unconscious Habits
2014년 8월 28일31분The "habitual self" is the complex of physical and vocal habits that we adopt as a response to our life experience. Through the stages of life, observe how human beings develop habitual physical patterns that may be limiting, and how awareness of these patterns serves freedom of expression and the needs of performance.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기시즌 1 에피소드 6 - Recovering Your Natural Alignment
2014년 8월 28일28분Learn the principles of the Alexander Technique, a system of movement training designed to achieve natural physical alignment and freedom from unnecessary tension. Explore the relationship between the head, neck, and spine, and practice a series of exercises to bring awareness and freedom to basic movements such as sitting and standing.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기시즌 1 에피소드 7 - The Body Balanced at Rest
2014년 8월 28일31분"Balance" is a state of equilibrium produced by an even distribution of weight, through which we can direct our energy in the most effective ways. Begin to balance the body in a lying position, practicing small movements that create release in the connective tissue of the shoulders, hips, and joints.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기시즌 1 에피소드 8 - The Body Balanced in Motion
2014년 8월 28일28분Beginning with a physical warm-up to bring freedom to the joints, experiment with vertical, horizontal, lateral, and sagittal planes of movement, and how using all the planes in performance gives visual and emotional variety. Find ways of moving through space with balance and freedom, and observe how ways of moving affect and evoke emotional states.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기시즌 1 에피소드 9 - Intent, Purpose, and Character
2014년 8월 28일33분Learn about the work of movement pioneer Rudolph Laban, who created a system for understanding and notating qualities of movement. Explore eight fundamental movement types, which describe the range of direct and indirect forms of movement we use in daily living, and consider how we can shape our physical movements to tell stories.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기시즌 1 에피소드 10 - Playing Status Relationships
2014년 8월 28일30분How do our movements and gestures communicate our purpose? Study how our interactions with others are governed by our status or power position within the relationship. In life and onstage, observe how we "play" status with others through specific physical tactics, stances, and gestures that convey our intentions and further our objectives.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기시즌 1 에피소드 11 - Stage Movement Savvy
2014년 8월 28일31분Discover the physical techniques that stage performers use to direct the audience's focus and maintain visual interest. Learn how to take and give focus onstage, using body position and orientation, as well as movement and stillness. Learn also to create visual variety through stage geometry, as well as the use of physical planes, balance, and rhythm.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기시즌 1 에피소드 12 - The Glorious Human Voice
2014년 8월 28일31분In this first session on vocal technique, take a tour of the physical mechanisms of sound and speech. Practice free and expansive breathing, and experiment with the principles of phonation (sound production) and resonation (sound amplification). Conclude by exploring articulation - how speech shapes sound into words.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기시즌 1 에피소드 13 - Accessing the Breath
2014년 8월 28일34분Continue with an extended session on breath, the source of sound. Begin with a full-body warm-up to release any physical tension that may obstruct sound production. In a neutral, lying position, practice free, clear breathing, using deep, natural breath to connect with the voice and to access vocal power without creating tension.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기시즌 1 에피소드 14 - Your Vocal Energy
2014년 8월 28일33분Building on our previous breath work, experiment with the range of your vocal potential, letting go of any preconceived notion of how you should sound. Using text from the Prologue to Shakespeare's Henry V, invoke the element of play in exploring tone, sustained breathing, vocal variety, and free, spontaneous vocal expression.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기시즌 1 에피소드 15 - Vocal Dynamics - Your Best Voice
2014년 8월 28일32분What makes a voice expressive or lackluster, rich or strident? Explore the parameters of resonance (sound placement), pitch, and volume. Understand how they give your voice its overall quality, and experiment with altering them at will. Also delve into inflection and intonation, see how they convey meaning, and learn about vocal projection.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기시즌 1 에피소드 16 - Clear, Energized Speech
2014년 8월 28일30분Now study the tools that make speech clear and energized. Consider how vowels carry the feeling behind words, and practice clearly pronouncing our language's 20 vowel sounds, including pure vowels and diphthongs. Continue with consonants, both plosives and continuants, building awareness of how consonants communicate meaning and create emphasis.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기시즌 1 에피소드 17 - The Muscles of Speech
2014년 8월 28일32분Here, exercise and strengthen the muscles we use in shaping words, an important practice for clear expression in both professional and everyday life. After warming up the breath and voice, work out your vocal articulators using combinations of consonants and vowel sounds, followed by practice phrases and tongue twisters for enunciation and clarity.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기시즌 1 에피소드 18 - Vocal Color - Pacing and Phrasing
2014년 8월 28일29분Learn to keep your audience engaged using the rhythms of speech. Begin by studying pace, how vocal pace affects listeners, and how variety of pace aids clarity and communication. Then learn about phrasing - how you group words and punctuate your speech with pauses - and ways to improve phrasing and change limiting speech habits.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기시즌 1 에피소드 19 - Accents and Dialects
2014년 8월 28일29분As performers or public speakers, we may at times need to either acquire or reduce a dialect or accent. Study the process of adopting a new way of speaking: learn to place your voice where it needs to resonate, incorporate new ways of shaping sounds, and find the intonation and rhythm of the new speech pattern.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기시즌 1 에피소드 20 - Acing the Audition
2014년 8월 28일28분The principles of auditioning in the theatre apply equally to interviews of any kind. Learn a comprehensive approach to presenting yourself in high-stakes settings. Study each phase of the process, from entering the room and introducing yourself to doing your audition or interview, the moments after, and your exit.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기시즌 1 에피소드 21 - Preparing for the Performance
2014년 8월 28일29분Building on all the work you've done, go through the rehearsal process step by step. For both stage performance and public speaking, begin with hands-on exploration and practice of your material in small sections, moving gradually to run-throughs and final dress rehearsals, approximating your performance conditions as completely as possible.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기시즌 1 에피소드 22 - Using Stage Fright Energy
2014년 8월 28일28분Look closely into the phenomenon of nervous energy or stage fright. Study key principles of mental focus for performing at your best, such as putting your performance experience in perspective, subduing self-judgment, using mental images of success, focusing on your partner or audience, and pinpointing specific fears.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기시즌 1 에피소드 23 - Working the Crowd with Confidence
2014년 8월 28일29분Connecting with your audience and holding their attention is essential to an effective performance or presentation. Here, grasp three strategies for sustaining attention: learn to claim your power and set the scene; keep your structure, language, and movement simple; and engage your viewers from start to finish through variety and creativity.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기시즌 1 에피소드 24 - Stage Presence - A Way of Life
2014년 8월 28일32분Conclude by contemplating what great performers do, and how presence can be a way of life. Consider how master performers engage and question the world by reflecting what they see, telling the truth, taking risks, transforming what they receive from others into something new, and finding what gives them the greatest joy.The Great Courses Living 무료 체험 또는 구매하기