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WorksheetsActing 1 Vocabulary Quiz #1
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
The process of communicating nonverbally through conscious or unconscious gestures and movements.
BODY LANGUAGE
BLOCKING
COUNTER CROSS
SCHTICK
The physical arrangement of actors on a stage.
COUNTER CROSS
BLOCKING
SIGHTLINE
FOCUS (staging)
Moving in the opposite direction of another actor that is moving.
TABLEAU
QUADRANTS
FLOOR PLAN
COUNTER CROSS
Arranging of the actors and set in a strategic way to produce a desired effect.
FLOOR PLAN
BODY LANGUAGE
TABLEAU
BALANCE
A scale diagram of a stage from above and used especially for planning blocking.
FLOOR PLAN
SIGHTLINE
FOCUS (staging)
QUADRANTS
Seeing the stage so that an audience is directed to look in a certain area.
SCHTICK
FOCUS (staging)
COUNTER CROSS
TABLEAU
Breaking a stage into four areas for blocking. This could be directions (North, South, East, West)
SCHTICK
FLOOR PLAN
FOCUS (staging)
QUADRANTS
Anything an audience member can see from their seat in the house.
SIGHTLINE
TABLEAU
BALANCE
SCHTICK
A contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention.
BODY LANGUAGE
SCHTICK
TABLEAU
FOCUS (staging)
An arrangement of actors who do not move or speak, and who represent a view of life or an event.
FOCUS (staging)
SIGHTLINE
TABLEAU
BALANCE
