Essential Stage Movement in Theatre Directing

Authors

  • Andra Pantea West University of Timișoara, Romania Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37130/0kwd9f96

Keywords:

stage movement, stage thinking, situation, what if, physicalization, impulse, scenic time, stage rhythm, significant gesture, facial expression, mirror neurons, actor/choreographer training, imagination, the invisible made visible, slow-motion, stillness, body expressiveness, physical theatre

Abstract

The following study represents an incursion into the main directorial trends of stage movement in the performing arts. Starting with Andrea Perrucci and up to Anne Bogart the way in which the concept of stage movement is perceived evolves in different directions. The main operating methods used in the development of stage movement within the artistic creative workshop of the concept that is performing arts can be found within oneself (the physicalization of thought, imagination, stimuli, the “what if“ question) and on the outside (physical reaction, topography, slow motion effect). The directorial approaches proposed for the creation of a character from a technical point of view are different but not without use as they do not exclude each other, instead they morph according to the needs of the person during the creative process.

Author Biography

  • Andra Pantea, West University of Timișoara, Romania

    Andra Pantea is a graduate in theatre directing (BA in 2014 and MA in2016 – Faculty of Theatre and Film, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca), acting (BA in 2010 – Faculty of Music and Theatre, West University of Timișoara) and photography (BA in 2010 – Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timișoara). She worked as a teacher, play adaptation, actor and theatre director. She is currently a PhD student with a research focusing on Directing Technique of Time Flow Symbolized in Theatre Scene, and Associate teacher at the Faculty of Music and Theatre at the West University of Timișoara. For her Bachelor’s Degree she directed the play Canicula by Antoaneta Zaharia which is still in the repertoire of the Mihai Eminescu National Theatre in Timișoara. Another directed play worth mentioning is The Wizard of Oz, a children orientated musical adapted after Frank Baum at The Merlin Children and Youth Theater in Timişoara.

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Published

2022-06-05

Issue

Vol. 24 No. 1 (2022): Contemporary Theatre and Cinema: Regional Identity and Cultural Specificity

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Pantea, A. (2022). Essential Stage Movement in Theatre Directing. CONCEPT, 24(1), 216-234. https://doi.org/10.37130/0kwd9f96