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SYLLABUS

ACTUAR EN INGLÉS

(THE SCIENCE OF ACTING)

Actuar en inglés

44 weeks (240 hrs.) Acting Workshop

SYLLABUS 

Part 1

Introduction to Science of Acting

 

1. Complexes:

1.1. Mental Complexes

1.2. Formation of Complexes

1.3. Examples of Complexes 

 

2. Awareness

2.1. ¿Why do we have visible and invisible thoughts?

2.2. Mushroom model

2.3. The model of Awareness and the creating a character

2.4. Emerging Awareness

 

3. Events

3.1. What is an event?

3.2. The Event Graph

3.3. Events and the actor's life

3.4. Foreburn and Afterburn

3.5. Unexpected Events and beautiful acting

3.6. Accumulated Events

3.7. Mindquakes

3.8. Events and Unfinished Thinking

 

4. Purposes

4.1. The formation of Purposes: Mind Erosions

4.2. The seven qualities of a Purpose

4.3. The cinema screen metaphor

4.4. Different types of Purposes

4.5. Fluidity of Purposes

4.6. The Super-Purpose and the Unity of Purposes in a script

4.7. Conflict

 

5. Elements of Mindprint 

5.1. Ultimate Communion Event (UC)

5.2. Shame Events (ShE)

5.3. Sex Events (SxE)

5.4. Life Events (LE)

5.5. People Events (PE)

5.6. Ghosts (Gh)

5.7. Auto Directives (AD)

5.8. Adjusters (Adj)

5.9. Mental Statements (MS)

5.10. Guidelines (GL)

5.11. Objectives (O)

5.12. Purposes (P)

5.13. Self Events (SE)

5.14. Super Purpose (SP)

5.15. Germ (G)

5.16. Examples of Mindprints

 

6. Actions

6.1. Quality of Actions

6.2. Devices

6.3. Main Actions and Acting 

6.4. Acting and the State of Mind

6.5. List of Actions

 

Part 2

Qualities of an actor

7. Imagination

7.1. Creating a character

7.2. Different types of imagination 

7.3. I can relate 

7.4. “I” an the character

 

8. Attention

8.1. Different types of Attention

8.2. The Dot of Attention

8.3. Attention and creating a character 

8.4. Creative Attention

8.5. The Five W's

 

9. Free Body

9.1. Natural and Acquired Tensions

9.2. Awarely and Unawarely Acquired Tensions 

9.3. Tensions and the character 

 

10. Talent

Part 3

The ten steps

 

11. Beginning of the analysis (Steps 1-3)

11.1. Sinopsis

11.2. Facts and Context 

11.3. Germ

            

12. Character analysis and actor's contemplation (Steps 4-8)

12.1. Character line

12.2. Character Mindprint

12.3. Relationships

12.4. Events and Happenings

12.5. Episodes and their OPAEs

 

13. Standing up (Pasos 9-10)

13.1. Programing

13.2. Affinities, Basic Actions, Basic Events and their modeling.

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