DOI: 10.35852/2588-0144-2021-1-180-193

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Elena I. Butenko-Raikina

Associate Professor of Department of the Actor’s skill and directing, Dean of the Acting Faculty
The Graduate School of Performing Arts
Moscow, Russia
E-mail: butenkoe@mail.ru

Сurrent issues of additional acting education: Teaching experience

Abstract

The article presents the experience of the Department of Acting and Directing of the Graduate School of Performing Arts in the implementation of the professional retraining program for actors as an opportunity for additional professional education of students whose activities are related to theatre, theatre pedagogy. The specifics of retraining in acting skills consist of the concentration and intensity of training, so it is important that students have a specialized education or work experience in amateur theatre. Group are the students aged 30-40, who have gained a certain acting experience, begin to feel the need for further training, improvement of acting techniques. One of the most important tasks of the training is to present to the audience the basics of acting, the true essence of the Stanislavsky system. Among the many provisions of his teaching, the emphasis is placed on two laws: compositional analysis and event-based analysis. A detailed description of these laws, updating the concepts of “proposed circumstances”, “initial event”, “task”, “action”, “actors”, “character”, “interaction”, “conflict”, etc. prepares the theoretical basis for the next stage of professional retraining-practical work. A significant part of the classroom time is devoted to this, as well as independent work. Through the exercises on attention, focus, willpower, concentration, pre-essay exercises, preparation of essay for imagination, observation, on a given topic, essay for images from literary works, students develop a number of necessary acting qualities. Serious attention is also paid to the overall organization of training, which ensures active professional communication of course participants with each other and with teachers.

Keywords

additional professional education, professional retraining, acting skills, Stanislavsky system, scenic essay, pre-essay exercises.

For citation

Butenko-Raikina E. I. Сurrent issues
of additional acting education: Teaching
experience. In: Theatre. Fine Arts. Cinema.
Music. 2021, no. 1, pp. 180–193.

DOI: 10.35852/2588-0144-2021-1-180-193

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Received: 28.10.2020

Accepted: 01.02.2021