The following terms are explained only in their meaning relevant to Acting. This page includes terms which are being frequently used in the posts. The list will grow together with the development of the blog.

1. Action

– As per Stanislavski (not a direct quote): The integral purposeful process of accomplishing a certain goal in a constant interaction with the circumstances, conducted in a unique way in time and space.

– As per this blog’s author: The process of selecting facts and turning them into circumstances as part of one’s dynamically changing general perception of reality.

2. Attention – the ability of the mind to direct the senses toward certain facts and to analyze the incoming information (outer attention); the ability of the mind to create or recreate non-material realities, and to analyze the incoming information (inner attention).

3. Circumstance – a fact that influences the action.

4. Environment – the physical and noetic medium a person exists in.

5. Event – a circumstance (or a combination of circumstances) that changes the direction of the action.

6. Experience – our integrated remembrance about the outcome of our interaction with similar situations.

7. Fact – a part of the objective reality.

8. Goal – an anticipatory, desired and oncoming act.

9. Imagination – Our ability to combine past facts into creative, unconventional and meaningful situations, and include these situations in our perception of reality.

10. Morality – a system of behavioral codes which an individual or a group of individuals adhere to in their interaction with the environment.

11. Objective – the goal the character strives to achieve at any moment.

12. Situation – a conglomerate of circumstances.

13. Tempo-rhythm – an inherent quality of action, related to its intensity and speed. Tempo indicates the sensed by us pace of the pressure induced by the environment; rhythm indicates the pace of our reaction.

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