Acting for Avatars

Exploring the possibilities of virtual emotion

•The group rehearses a scene, with little or no reference to the text.

•The results are compared with the director’s initial understanding and interpretation of the text.

•Adjustments are made, incorporating what the actors have created and what the director understands of the text.

•The process is iterated, each time incorporating more of the play’s text, but retaining the spontaneity of the actors’ improvisations, where these match the circumstances and intentions of the scene.

•Eventually the text is embedded into the performance, as if the actors themselves have composed it, matching their (iteratively adjusted) motivations and moment by moment actions.

•The actors are thus bringing their own prior experience and motivations to the performance (in terms of the ‘magic if’), and melding this with their embodiment of the role.

Active Analysis

•The group rehearses a scene, with little or no reference to the text. •The results are compared with the director’s initial understanding and interpretation of

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Aliveness

The idea of aliveness is closely aligned with animation, both literally and conceptually. One of the most widely used and complete works exploring the art

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Can an Avatar Act?

This blog is long overdue, but I will try to retrospectively summarise most of the research and thinking I’ve been doing over the past few

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