🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

This introductory course in the art of acting has a practical and experiential orientation and aims to familiarize students with the main challenges of stage expression, a field constantly redefined by new ideas, developments, aesthetic and ideological trends. However, from the traditional actor of dramatic theater, to the modern performer, to the different traditions and forms of acting, certain principles remain common: presence, address, inventiveness, form, gesture, voice, physicality, the concept of the event, the dimension of space are some of the principles of stage interpretation that we will attempt to explore experientially with the students.

Students at the end of the course

• They will know the main historical phases of the art of acting

• They will be familiar with the means and methods of the main currents of the art of acting.

• They will know experientially some of the basic categories of expressive means of the art of acting.

• They will have the experience of artistic expression through the tools and goals of the art of acting.

• They will practice individually and in groups the use of the actor's means in the context of exercises and tasks.

• They will have the opportunity to prepare artistic projects using the tools and techniques they will get to know during the course.

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (1 hour)

1. Introductory lesson 1: actor/performer: the tools of the stage performer
2. Introductory lesson 2: forms and transformations of the actor
3. Theories of stage presence
4. From the actor's body to the performer's physicality
5. Vocal traditions and techniques of the stage performer
6. The gesture in the theater: from the No. theater, to Brecht and the dance theater
7. The formalist actor in the avant-garde of the 20th century
8. Action as the core of Stanislavski's theory of the actor
9. Narrative Theatre Traditions
10. Dialogue: the premise of dramatic theatre
11. The musical theater actor
12. Discussion on the work
13. Feedback

🔵 🔴 🟡 Workshop (2 hours)

1. Introductory lesson 1: actor/performer: the tools of the stage performer
2. Introductory lesson 2: forms and transformations of the actor
3. Presence
4. Body and physicality
5. Voice
6. Gesture
7. Form
8. Action/Event
9. Narration
10. Dialogue/address
11. Singing
12. Pre-presentation of assignments
13. Presentation of projects

Review language: Greek

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

• 20% Written Assignments
• 80% artistic performance

• Face-to-face
• Use of ICT in teaching
• Use of ICT when communicating with students.
• Learning process through an electronic platform.
• Communication with students via email and through an electronic chat space in the e-class.

https://eclass.uop.gr/courses/2868/ 

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Textbooks [Eudoxus]

• Stanislavski, K. (2015) The Work of the Actor 1. Experience, Athens: Plethron Publications
• Stanislavski, K. (2015), The Work of the Actor 2. Incarnation, Athens: Plethron Publications
• Chekhov, M. (2008), For the Actor, Athens: Metaichmio Publications

Extra bibliography

• Barba, E. & Savarese. N, The Secret Art of the Actor, Athens, Koan, 2008.
• Jacques Lecock, The Poetic Body, Koan, Athens 2005.
• Mamet, David, To the Actor, Pataki, Athens 2002.
• Moore Sonia, The Stanislavski System: The Professional Training of an Actor, Paraskinio, Athens 2001.
• Barba Eugenio, The Paper Canoe: A Guide to Theatrical Anthropology, Dodoni, Athens 2008.
• Brooke, Peter, The Open Door. Thoughts on the art of theatre, Koan, Athens 2007.
• Didero Denis, The Paradox with the Actor, Foreword by Vassilis Papavassiliou, Polis, Athens 1995
• Oida Yoshi, The Adrift Actor, Koan, Athens 2001