Emotional Preparation

Spontaneous Improvisations in Drama

Spontaneous Improvisations in Drama requires timing, patience and Activation. Adding Emotional Activations can spark spontaneity in acting and drama. Drama is the ability to add emotion to your acting.

Spontaneity requires patience in acting!

Some Key Quotes of this Acting Article:
“Slightly relaxing into the spontaneous moment, for a split second, can leap the Actor forward into the scene.“
“Great acting is the ability to find self-discovery moment within acting interaction.“
“Truth is the reality of an Activated Moment.“

Copyright 2022 Simon Blake

Spontaneous Improvisations in Drama takes learning techniques to achieve with consistency. It is your job as an Actor to find your own Spontaneity. Finding both spontaneity and emotional depth requires practicing acting skills.

What Makes Impromptu Responses

There are both verbal Impromptu Responses and Behavior Impromptu Responses.

What makes a response Impromptu takes the ability of not knowing what the response will be until it is already happening.

Great acting is the ability to find self-discovery moment within acting interaction.

You want to work with certain people because by working with them you both help each other discover more of each other’s talents and responses.

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Relaxation is Important to Spontaneity

Slightly relaxing into the spontaneous moment, for a split second, can leap the Actor forward into the scene.

Many times, Actors feel that Spontaneity is spastic action to impress or show off., but real spontaneity comes off of a ping-pong of interaction.

Relaxation is the baseline of Spontaneity.

Working from Truth, so you have Real Acting

Truth is the reality of an Activated Moment.

When you work from truth there is no need to perform in acting. Oh, you might get excited and have larger expression while you have taken the stage, but your truth underlies each action and each word.

How to work with your truth the easiest is to use Activated Emotions.

When you are open to letting a real experience happen to you, you will find more about yourself within your acting part.

Activating Dramatic Emotions

Activating your own Drama is key in acting.

You want to find your own dramatic emotions. When you activate your own emotion, you can achieve Spontaneous Improvisations in Drama.

Activating emotions is a far different experience than activating a flirting feeling. Fleeting feelings can resonate to receive inclinations but often don’t stay with you during acting interaction.

The key is to be able to activate Deep Feelings or Emotions.

Activations Journal

The infamous Activations Journal is your own records of which current emotions you know how to self-activate.

You self-activate emotions so you can grow extra talents in your acting. Each emotion you are capable of activating on your own is an extra talent to use for your acting.

Talents are Activations.

Your ‘job’ as an Actor is to find your own Activations and have the skills to self-activate. Learning about what activates your real emotions and applying them to scene work is absolutely important.

Use one of many Emotions Lists on this website to start the self-discovery of your own real emotions.

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Improvisational Behavior with Exact Dialogue

The tried-and-true test for the Actor is the ability to do the exact same dialogue or material with a completely different emotional range.

Having the talent to do the same dialogue with a different emotional range is a lot of fun in acting.

The Behavioral Improvisational Dialogue Exercise is fantastic.

You want to achieve the reality of practicing your acting with contrasting emotions. The more you practice doing this exercise with contrasting emotions the more you will find within the material.

Improvisational discoveries occur when doing the contrasting emotion. You may have a scene that is normally very dramatic, however, you do a few rehearsals as a comedy. This builds out the Actors emotional life, so they have this fullness occur within their acting work.

Loose Dialogue options in Improvisations

Exploring loose dialogue options can be a great way of finding dynamics within a scene.

Another ‘Loose Dialogue Acting Exercise’ to do is working the lines exact until the Actor gets the impulse to go off on an emotional tangent. At that point they start the Improvisational work.

Doing this improvisational work adds realism to the actual scripted dialogue. The Actor finds freedom within themselves to achieve the ability to find their own depth of expression for that specific dialogue.

THE Key to making Loose Dialogue Acting Exercise work it is the accuracy emotional continuity. The closer the improvised emotions match the intention of the original scene the greater of a leap the Actor will take that will help them resonate with the acting material.

Copyright 2022 Simon Blake

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