Greek Movement

Greek Movement More like Geek Movement

Masks • No facial expressions • Emphasis on voice and movement • Actors judged on beauty of vocal tone • More declamatory than realistic • Exercised and trained voices like today’s opera singers • Shape of the mask amplified actor’s voice

Dance Influence • Tendency toward a set of conventionalized, stylized, or symbolic gestures • Greek word for “chorus” is akin to the word for “dance” • Highly physical, choreographed roles? • “animated icons moving rhythmically before us which serve to cast a hypnotic spell, reinforced by music, dance, and incantation… thus inducing a trance-like response, echoing… dance dramas of an earlier epoch” –A History of the Theatre

Tragedy vs. Comedy • Tragedy: Movements simplified and broadened • Tried to idealize things • Comedy: Movements exaggerated in the direction of the farcical and ridiculous • Lots of physical comedy • Tendency towards burlesque

Technical Considerations • Audience is really far away = “bigger”acting • No expectation of complete realism (all men, choral passages)

Greek Movement

Greek Movement

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Greek Philosophies Greek Theater

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