What is Drama

What is Drama

The keys to drama unleash the creativity within the actor to match the intensities of the script. Great Actors are able to access themself and spark self activations to put emotions into their acting. Drama is that ability that Actors possess to access themselves in both dance and theater.

The Function of Drama in Art

Drama is the internal struggle of moves the storyline. Drama is often connected to the unseen emotions which function the story lines movement. Drama helps to impetus the movement and changes within the script. That meaning moves the storyline from meaningful scene to meaningful scene.

In essence the function of drama in art is the depth and not the surface of the art piece.

Why Take Acting Classes?

Acting classes help you find and practice in real-time emotional availability. There is nothing farce about finding your own meaning within an acting class.

Meaning is the depth of which drama builds upon.

Finding the Dramatist within ourselves is our finding our own emotional brushstrokes. Regardless of the form of drama taking acting classes can give you the needed practice to warm up your talent and keep it activated.

How the Playwright adds Drama for Actors

Playwrights have to trust that Actors will put the drama of themselves into their acting roles. Whether the Actor represents racial & social justice or lives in real-time an emotional journey Drama is the key element.

Playwrights Definition of Drama

Synonym exploration of key words or phrases in the Playwrights work will lead to exploration of drama for Actors. The playwrights gifts the actor emotional elements within their work. The goal first is to find the book work of the playwright. Next is the hard work of finding the emotion and the drama from within.

The Actors job is to sort what the Drama means then attach their own emotion into their acting. The use of Drama performed by Actors is always better with the undercurrent of an activated emotion.

Use of Drama in Ballet

Expressions & Equations in ballet color the cultivation of drama on stage. Whether you are doing a melodrama ballet piece on William Shakespeare or more of a classical drama you access your emotions to do your craft.

Drama is the interaction of emotion in acting. In every artform the interaction is the drama that exchanges characters directions and motives. You of course are the character in the real-time experience of the Imaginary Circumstances.

While you are in front of the audience or just off stage your morality plays a narrator to your function as you dance and live a real-time story.

Example of Drama in Life

Life too often may take a dramatic form. Life without drama may be a simple and peaceful existence. That hecticness is the drama of life we feel as we succeed in life.

Tragic drama is our interaction in life with tragic events. Romantic drama is the romance we live in real-time in life that often we can draw upon for art.

Drama in Literature Reflects Life Experience

Drama is the literature of meanings that reflect life experiences. The use of a happy ending in an arch of a romantic comedy gifts hope to your audiences as they witness your experience.

Type of Drama in life to Bring into Acting

One-dimensional concepts are not usually thought-provoking. The greatest dramatists are the ones that combine ideas to make sense with one another. An Actor in an imaginary circumstances may have had a terrible day yet still stops to smell the flowers and give a neighbor a gift. These actions are the drama because they are the interactions chosen within the imaginary circumstances.

When the story is told it is certain the drama has unfolded.

Actors need to work hard on techniques to access their emotions. The Emotional Preparation Technique is one way to access the practice of emotion. Rehearsing by practicing self activation of emotions that fit the narrative of the scene is a learned process.

Research and Study Skills

In Emotional Preparation the dramas are written by the Actor to rehearse towards scene work. The research and study skills are part of the Emotional Preparation aspects. The Emotional Activation is when the Actor self activates their emotion.

Self activation of emotion is far different than dramatic traditions that plays are usually part of only performing emotion. Instead the research and study skills work to accurate activate an emotional range within the Actor.

Sparking ones own emotion in self activation is the key to practice of drama.

Types of Drama in the Theatre

If you are doing a sentimental comedy you must know what sentimentality is. If an action is meant to be performed it will be better performed with an activated emotion. When performed in front of a live audience the audience will be able to tell the difference.

Comedy, Tragedy and Asian Drama

The typical comedy, tragedy and Asian Drama still require an active emotion to be in their best form. To be sensational and extravagant you will want to have depth of drama in your acting.

The funniest comedies are often very serious in nature.

The key to doing Tragedy well is the concept of hope. If you add hope to tragedy is it better and more palpable to the audience. It will be easier to watch as well be easier for the Actor to go in and out of the depth required.

Asian Dramas may have big stage directions but still need emotions to undercurrent their functions.

Western Drama vs Mime

Mime is a type of performance art that involves the use of gestures and body movements to convey a message or story. Mime is almost always without any words. Western drama, on the other hand, is a type of performance art that relies on dialogue and action to tell a story. Both forms of performance art have their own distinct advantages and disadvantages.

Mime is often seen as being more accessible than western drama, as it does not require any spoken language. This can be an advantage if the audience does not share a common language with the performers. Mime can also be used to convey emotions and feelings more effectively than words alone. However, mime can be difficult to understand if the audience is not familiar with the form, and it can also be quite static compared to western drama.

Western drama, on the other hand, is often seen as being more intellectually demanding than mime, as it requires the audience to follow along with the spoken dialogue. This can be an advantage if the story is complex or if the performers are skilled at delivering their lines. However, western drama can also be difficult to understand if the audience is not familiar with the culture or context in which it is set.

First Known History of Western Drama

The first known history of western civilization can be traced back to the ancient Greeks. The Greeks were a highly advanced society with a rich culture and history. They had a strong influence on the development of western civilization. Other early cultures that had an impact on the west include the Romans, Celts, and Germans. Western civilization has its roots in these ancient cultures.

What Modern Actors Learn from Greek Drama

The history of drama leads to Greece and Greek Drama. Languages also tell the story. There is an old saying that states watch out here “comes the Greek”. This was about the rich history and the additions that Greek Dramas gifted modern drama.

Audience’s and Character’s amplify the performance in an authentic way for the stage but a way that would stick out in life.

The main thing is; All Drama is a type of Interaction.

The emotional weight of emotion creates dramatic moments within the art of acting.

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