The Actor in the Storytelling School

Filip ODANGIU

doi:10.24193/subbdrama.2017.1.02

Authors

Filip ODANGIU Faculty of Theatre and Television, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. filip_odangiu@yahoo.com

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbdrama.2017.1.02

Keywords:

storytelling, actor’s training, public, reception, exercises, narrative self

Abstract

This essay was born from a formative and revealing experience of the author's incidental encounter with storytelling. Seduced by the unsuspected valences of this phenomenon, the author has integrated the “tools of the trade” in his work as an acting teacher. The article’s premise is that storytelling is an exceptional way of uniting the actor and the spectator in common action, leading to a more complex understanding of the world surrounding them.

Author Biography

Filip ODANGIU, Faculty of Theatre and Television, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. filip_odangiu@yahoo.com

FILIP ODANGIU: Born in 1976 in Timisoara, Filip Odangiu is one of the promoters of a new approach in the Propaedeutics of the actor's art, based on exploring the mechanisms of imagination and metacognitive. He made his undergraduate studies at Timisoara (painting) and Cluj (acting), where he took a doctorate in Theatre in 2013, with a thesis dedicated to the formation of the actor. He obtained his Master in Philosophy of Culture and Performing Arts at the Faculty of Theatre and Television, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, where, since 2003, he teaches acting and improvisation. His work, besides didactic, includes several directions: acting, theater directing, stage design, fine arts, journalism.

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