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      Devising Movement Project

      This project details will finalize later according to the specialty of particular group and circumstances

    • Introduction to acting URL
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      Renowned theatre director, playwright, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award winner Prasanna, presents his seminal work 'Indian Method In Acting' as a series of Masterclasses.

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      Show must go on.....

    • Monologue presentation Assignment
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      create a five minutes presentation of monologues from classic works

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    Topic 1

    • Moving Body File
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      Acting is a creative effort. Creation of something new from another is what every art form does. Acting is such a form where man is the most fundamental element. In this form, facts and truth are derived from the thoughts and actions born out of life. The wholeness of the art of acting is based on the perfection of the result of its own conditions. Ordinarily, we tend to be attracted towards individual characteristics of certain actors. Some of these individual characteristics are deceptive enough to have the audience perceive them as ideal traits of great acting. However these cannot be termed as acting skills, neither can they alone make one an artist. It is naïve to think that one can create illusion through acting. Such deception is not what theatre seeks to achieve. Theatre attempts to create real, yet modified versions of the truth. An actor who realizes that he/she is not just an artist, but also the most fundamental instrument of the art form, should develop skills like flexibility, fluidity, magnetism and imagination, that advance one’s acting prowess, while still retaining his/her own individuality.


    • Dyanamo Rythm File
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      This technique is developed from Corporeal mime

    • The method acting exercises Book
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      Hand Book by Lola Cohen

    • Masters series Assignment
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    • Abhinayam File
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    Topic 2

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    Topic 3

    • Invisible actor By Yoshi Oida Book
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      Yoshi Oida is completely unique. A Japanese actor and director who has worked mainly in the West as a member of Peter Brook's theatre company in Paris, he blends the oriental tradition of supreme and studied control with the Western performer's need to characterise and expose depths of emotion. In this practical and captivating study of the actor's art written with Lorna Marshall, Yoshi Oida explains that once the audience becomes openly aware of the actor's method and becomes too conscious of the actor's artistry, the wonder of performance dies. The audience must never see the actor but only his or her performance. Throughout Lorna Marshall provides a running commentary on Yoshi Oida's work and methods which help you understand the achievement of this singular theatrical artist.

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      Reading material

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      Notes prepared by Sreejith Ramanan

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    Topic 4

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      Until his death in 1999, Jacques Lecoq taught indefatigably at the International Mime and Theatre school he founded in 1956. Here, for the first time in English, and in Lecoq's own words, are his philosophy and his teaching methods - probably the greatest influence on world theatre over the last thirty years. In chapters entitled Personal Journey, The World and its Movements, The Road to Creativity, & New Perspectives, Lecoq sets out his unique architecture of the body in space and explains his most famous techniques such as neutral mask, acrobatics, bouffons and the grotesque and play, and discusses the actor's approach to situation, character, environment, emotion, physical and vocal preparation and of course movement."In life I want students to be alive, and on the stage I want them to be artists." Jacques Lecoq LESS

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      Reading material

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    Topic 5

    • Acting master class URL
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      Prasanna: Indian Method of Acting - Masterclass 1


    • acting workshop
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      Lesson plan for School of Drama and Fine Arts, University of Calicut,Thrissur.

      6 Months duration

      (Preparation  - of the body, of the voice, of the art of collaboration and of the imagination)


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    Video material