- "Acting is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor who adopts a character…"
Learning how to perform on stage by controlling nerves, stagecraft, facial expressions, and audience engagement.
Dance Techniques: The fundamental movement skills required for various styles of dance, including body alignment, balance, coordination, flexibility, and strength.
Movement Vocabulary: The specific terms and concepts related to dance movement, such as isolations, gestures, turns, jumps, and partner work.
Choreography: The process of creating a dance piece, including structure, form, rhythm, and style.
Musicality: The ability to interpret and dance to different types of music, using rhythmic and expressive movement.
Improvisation: The art of making spontaneous, creative movement choices without pre-planning or choreography.
Stage Presence: The ability to command attention and convey a compelling performance through body language, facial expressions, and energy.
Performance Techniques: The skills needed to perform on stage, including projection, facial expressions, stage positioning, and timing.
Costuming and Makeup: The importance of costumes and makeup in enhancing the overall performance and conveying mood and character.
Performance psychology: The mental preparation required to perform at a high level, including overcoming performance anxiety, visualization, and goal setting.
Production Design: The overall visual and technical aspects of a performance, such as lighting, sound, and set design, that create a cohesive and memorable experience for the audience.
Ballet: A classical dance form characterized by precise and graceful movements, and often performed in a narrative context.
Tap dance: A form of dance that involves creating rhythms with the feet using metal-tipped shoes.
Jazz dance: An energetic dance form that combines elements of ballet, modern dance, and other styles, often set to contemporary/popular music.
Contemporary dance: A modern dance genre that emphasizes individual expression and fluidity of movement.
Hip hop dance: A high-energy dance style that incorporates street dance moves, popping, locking, and other techniques.
Ballroom dance: A partner dance genre, such as foxtrot, waltz, cha-cha, and tango, often performed in competition.
Belly dance: A Middle Eastern dance form characterized by fluid movements of the torso and hips.
Flamenco dance: An expressive Andalusian dance form that combines percussive footwork, flamenco guitar, and hand clapping.
Breakdance: A style of dance that involves acrobatic and breakaway movements, often performed to hip-hop music.
Pole dance: A combination of dance and acrobatics that involves using a vertical pole as a prop.
Latin dance: A group of partner dances with roots in Latin America, such as salsa, samba, and rumba.
Folk dance: Traditional dances that evolve from specific regions or cultures, often featuring group or social dancing.
Ballet Folklorico: A genre of traditional Mexican dance that features vibrant costumes, energetic steps, and lively music.
Bollywood dance: A dance style that originates from Indian cinema, featuring intricate hand and foot movements and vibrant costumes.
Irish dance: A genre of dance that includes step dancing, set dancing, and ceilí dancing, performed typically to traditional Irish music.
African dance: A diverse set of dance genres that draw on various African cultures and music styles, often including percussive movements and expressions with the whole body.
Modern dance: A broad category of contemporary dance styles, often emphasizing individual expression and experimentation with movement.
Salsa dance: A partnering dance form that combines elements of Latin music and dance, with an emphasis on fast footwork and sensual movements.
Swing dance: A group of dance styles, including Lindy Hop, West Coast Swing, and Jive, characterized by energetic, improvisational movements and partner swings.
Street dance: A genre of dance that originated in urban centers, often including hip hop, funk, breaking, and other styles that express the culture of the streets.
- "Acting involves a broad range of skills, including a well-developed imagination, emotional facility, physical expressivity, vocal projection, clarity of speech, and the ability to interpret drama."
- "Acting also demands an ability to employ dialects, accents, improvisation, observation and emulation, mime, and stage combat."
- "Many actors train at length in specialist programs or colleges to develop these skills."
- "Actors and actresses will often have many instructors and teachers for a full range of training involving singing, scene-work, audition techniques, and acting for a camera."
- "Most early sources in the West that examine the art of acting discuss it as part of rhetoric."
- "Most early sources in the West that examine the art of acting discuss it as part of rhetoric." (Note: The term 'hypokrisis' refers to acting in Greek.)
- "Acting is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor who adopts a character—in theatre, television, film, radio, or any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode."
- "Acting involves a broad range of skills, including a well-developed imagination…"
- "Acting involves a broad range of skills, including… emotional facility…"
- "Acting involves a broad range of skills, including… vocal projection…"
- "Acting involves a broad range of skills, including… clarity of speech…"
- "Acting involves a broad range of skills, including… the ability to interpret drama."
- "Acting also demands an ability to employ dialects, accents…"
- "Acting also demands… improvisation, observation and emulation, mime, and stage combat."
- "The vast majority of professional actors have undergone extensive training."
- "Many actors train at length in specialist programs or colleges to develop these skills."
- "Actors and actresses will often have many instructors and teachers for a full range of training involving… singing, scene-work, audition techniques, and acting for camera."
- "Acting is an activity… in theatre, television, film, radio, or any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode."
- "Acting is an activity… in any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode."