Theatre+for+the+Eyes

1. __Action:__ Movement 2. __Body Language:__ The messages sent with one’s body position, posture, facial expressions, and gestures. 3. __Cheat Out__: To turn out more towards the audience; similar to “opening up to the audience,” only may be more involved, such as moving a chair or shifting one’s whole body. 4. __Creativity__: Use of artistry and originality in a performance. 5. __Dance:__ To interpret music or feelings with rhythmic and/or patterned movements of the body. 6. __Facial Expressions__: The messages sent with one’s face. 7. __First Impression__: The way the performer comes across the moment the audience sees him’ can include appearances, confidence, timely set up, preparation, professionalism, and so on. 8. __Force Focus__: To position actors, props, lighting, and scenery in such a way as to “command” that the audience look a certain direction. 9. __Gender Bend__: To place an actor into a role that was intended for an actor of the opposite sex; to put a boy in a female part or a girl in a male part with out changing the gender of the character. 10. __Gestures__: Hand movements that are expressive. 11. __Gimmicks:__ Devices used to win the approval of the audience. 12. __Hook:__ A figurative term to getting the audience’s attention and holding it. 13. __Lip Sync__: A type of performance in which an actor or actors act as though they are the ones singing a song by synchronizing their lip movements to the words of the song; also includes acting out the story of the song and/or dancing. 14. __Lyricist:__ A person who writes song lyrics. 15. __Lyrics__: The words in a song. 16. __Movement:__ In theatre, the way an actor uses his body for interpretation. 17. __Narrative:__ A story. 18. __Open Up to the Audience__: To turn one’s body out slightly toward the audience, usually by a simple shift of the foot. 19. __Opposing Synchronization__: forces actors to work together to create movement that appears to be “cause and effect.” 20. __Pantomime:__ To act out a specific movement without the use of a prop. 21. __Perfect Synchronization:__ Two or more actors are doing the exact same thing for a sustained period of time. 22. __Plane__: A flat surface that is not always readily visible; may include Stage Left to Stage Right, Downstage to Upstage, and floor to ceiling. 23. __Props:__ The things or items used by actors on-stage. 24. __Set__: Anything that indicates a place or setting or turns a non-traditional performance space into a suitable performance area. 25. __Stage Picture__: A term used to describe each movement on-stage as though it were a photograph; the desirable stage picture is one in which actors are focused, a story is being told, and there is a focal point. 26. __Synchronize:__ To match or align two or more things exactly. 27. __Tableau__: Meaning, “picture” and also meaning “scene” refers to creating meaningful pictures on-stage. 28. __Take Center__: To make one’s self the center of focus. 29. __Teamwork__: The result of more than one person using their assets and working together to reach a common goal. 30. __Upstage Hand (or Foot__): The Upstage body part is the one farthest away from the audience at that moment; it will change as actors move around on the stage. 31. __Upstage One’s Self:__ To poorly position one’s self so that the audience’s view will be obstructed.

“//I like your silence; the more it shows off your wonder//.” - William Shakespeare, //The Winter’s Tale// Act V, Scene 3