The activity that we did in class in which we went around the circle and each made a different noise and action to send around the circle reminded me of what Grotowski would want actors to do to help eliminate the itimelapse of inner impulse and outer reaction. In that exercise you weren't allowed to prepare what action you were gonna do it just had to come, a quick outer impulse. I think what Grotowski is saying is ultimatly the same as what Stanislavski is saying. Both are ultimatly about perfection being a spontaneous unihibited moment. Stanislavski's terms make more sense to me though. The actor must be the charator so intensly that they become that person and are able to improv as the person. I understand what Goffman is talking about with people acting for their peers, but I don't like that idea. I think that what a person gives off is truly there personality, it is natural not decided and chosen. I do however agree that what a person intends to give off and how that is interpreted by their audience, because two people may draw very different conclusions from the same person's actions.
Posted by shar0243 at March 30, 2005 02:12 PM