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| Create & perform without preparation |
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| A person who acts first & thinks later |
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| “Illusion of the first time” |
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| Situation in which an audience is led to believe that each performance is the first |
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| Calling attention to ones presence onstage and diverting attention away from the main actors. |
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| Character-centered-approach |
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| An approach to telling a story that focuses on a character or a group of characters who experience different situations. |
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| situation-centered-approach |
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| An approach to telling a story that takes a single situation or a series of situations and puts characters in them to show how different personalities respond to the same event. |
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| The natural way in which a person responds to stimulus- the brain registers, the body responds and then reacts as mirrored by an actor in an improvisation. |
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| To be visible on stage but not to play an active part in the scene |
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| A question that can be answered with a yes or no that shuts down the flow of the dialogue |
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