In her book The Complete Stnaislavski Toolkit Bella Merlin describes the inner creative state as the 'one in which anything is possible, where your sense of play and spontaniety is at your finger tips. You're so physically relaxed and psychologically warmed-up that you're open to every changing nuance in your fellow actors, your audience and yourself. In this state you really are listening' (2009:49)
More importantly she stresses that this state can only flourish and develop if the ensemble works hard to engender a CREATIVE ATMOSPHERE - safe, trusting, nurturing. She quotes Stanislavski (2009:50):
Creative atmosphere is one of the powerful factors in our art and we must
remember it is extraordinarily difficult to create a working atmosphere.
The director is in no position to create it on his own, only the collective can
create it. But it can be destroyed unfortunately by any person.
I think The Inner Creative State talks about how relaxed and creative an actor can be. An actor must be so relaxed both physically and mentally to reach this state, so that the stage is their's, and they're free to do whatever they want. I believe The Inner Creative State is all about good techniques toward character building, and thinking outside the box to do so. Relaxing an actor will make their mind clear, so they have a lot more room to think about it, and relaxing them physically will allow their body to become a completely new body.
ReplyDeleteI think the discipline involved refers to how an actor must be focused and dedicated to create and just be imaginative. To remain in character at all times. If a character is shy, then they must show that they are shy. How are their emotions? Are they feeling happy, sad, angry? Let the audience see it. Let the audience feel what the actors themselves feels.
The staging ethics, I think talk about how the actor uses the stage as their "playground" if you will. Portraying a character is one thing, but portraying their reason is another. I believe this could refer to how the actor understands their character's interaction with the stage - their reason for being on the stage. What is their purpose? What is their objective? It's something they need to remember at all times.
Physco-physicality I think is about developing your awareness working on your mind and body together, this is one of Stanislavsky’s techniques that helps creating and building a character. Nothing is divided both body and mind need to work together to make this technique work.
ReplyDeleteDiscipline is the focus an actor must have, this discipline will help in many things such as character building and keeping in character. If you are not focused it can ruin the perception you have on things, and your body and mind will not be free.
Stage-ethics I think is maybe about the atmosphere on stage, between the actors, maybe also between the audience, as it is both the actor and audience that can help create the mood needed.
Psycho-physicality refers to the co-dependance between the brain and the body. They both rely on each other. That not one is more important than the other and actors will find stimualtion thourhg reading and performing a text through psycho-physicality.
ReplyDeleteDiscipline refers to what an actor must have in order to be truly succesful at what they do. Discipline on levels such physical discipline, but also mental and creative discipline. For example disciplinary methods within yourself such as having learnt your lines. I believe this is one of the key approaches most actors need in todays industry and society, with some actors only performing in the theatre and on stage to be famous and not considering others and how their presence may be affecting others.
Stage ethics from the complete stanislavski toolkit refers to ethics from three angles as such: actors behaviour inside the theatre, outside the theatre and the working relationship between actors. That you cannot abuse your psyche and body off stage and not have it affect the work you do onstage. Again i believe this is definitely true that the work you do off the stage does affect how you perform and react to on stage.
I believe that physco-physicality is a technique that Stanislavski uses. It works on the relationship between the mind and the body and helps to develop an actor’s awareness. He believed that nothing could be divided and both an actors mind and body should work together in order to make a performance effective.
ReplyDeleteI believe that discipline is a mind set that an actor has. It can be the key in making a believable character and if at any time that actor looses that focus it can completely change the way it is seen; hard to achieve and easily broken.
I believe that stage ethics is an atomsphere that the actors have with not only one another but the audience and stage its self. I believe that this does not include just when a performance is happening but when the cast is rehearsing and living day to day life; how they generally treat each other.
I think the inner state is techniques, to help an actor be in such a relaxed state body and mind. I think back to one of the exercises that we did with Polly in physical theatre, we were in partners, One of us had to close our eyes while the other had to direct that person’s body slightly, by lifting or manipulating individual parts. We had to give full control to the other person .Body and mind had to be completely free so that we were not moving with any tension or resistance. At first i found this difficult to relinquish my body and mind to immerse myself in the task at hand, which showed more controlled movements but as we started to get into it we saw much more flowing natural and spiritual movements starting to develop on the inner state.
ReplyDeleteAs Actors we have to be disciplined so that we our able to move out of becoming general actors.So we are able to grow part of this growth is preparing our physical and mental state’s Stanislavski believes we are the musical instrument of our art.Which I believe is true you can only be as good at anything with a lot of hard work and practise. There for we have to practise on our inner and outer state to create natural and realistic performances.
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I think Stanislavski’s idea of psycho physicality is when an actor has the ability to use the combination of their physical actions and mental being in order to effectively portray their character. In using this technique, actors should be able to make the audience fully believe in their character as the actor is engaged in their role with both body and mind.
ReplyDeleteI believe Stanislavski’s method of discipline meant that he wanted theatre to be serious and that he wanted performances and actors to be perfect. Therefore, he wanted actors to have discipline to make them improve their own character and also the performance.
Stage ethics is the atmosphere which is created through the theatre itself, the actors’ relationships between one another on stage and the relationship between the actors off stage. When in the theatre, actors must be ready to work and need to be completely committed when performing and must be fully engaged in their role. If this is not the case, a different atmosphere will be created and could ruin the performance.
I believe that the Psycho Physicality is opening our ears and eyes to everything going on in the play and on the stage. Being this much mentally involved with the piece should not prevent the actor from still being in control of their muscles. Actors can use all the input on stage to guide them physically and help them establish a tempo, both physically and mentally.
ReplyDeleteI think Stanislavski used the discipline method to teach the actors about being totally engaged with the work they are doing. As they discipline themselves they also release the true power of psycho physicality.
Stage ethics are really important since they carry the power to either pull down or raise the quality of the performance. Stage ethics should be appreciated by all the actors since that way they can work in a trusting and creative atmosphere. Establishing the atmosphere through stage ethics can be hard but it is in fact really easy to break.