The Actor Lost in Translation? Competence vs. Presence in the Teacher-Director’s Stage Directions

Authors

  • Filip ODANGIU Faculty of Theatre and Film, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. filip.odangiu@ubbcluj.ro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbdrama.2019.1.02

Keywords:

actor training, directing, teaching art, stage directions, sidecoaching, shadowing, feedback loop, rehearsal, communication, status

Abstract

This article carries on a research approach started years ago by the author, investigating the necessary conditions for producing a creative environment, favorable for the development of the actor in the acting school. Aspects of the relation between the teacher-director with the student-actor are discussed, and a series of possible interacting means and effects of the orality between the two are revealed.

Author Biography

Filip ODANGIU, Faculty of Theatre and Film, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. filip.odangiu@ubbcluj.ro

FILIP ODANGIU is one of the promoters of a new approach in the Propaedeutic of the actor's art, based on exploring the mechanisms of imagination and metacognitive. He undertook his undergraduate studies at Timisoara (painting) and Cluj (acting), where he was granted a doctorate in Theatre in 2013, with a thesis dedicated to the formation of the actor. He obtained his master’s degree 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, improvisation, puppet theatre. His work, besides teaching, includes several directions: acting, theater directing, stage design, fine arts, theatre journalism.

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STUDIA UBB DRAMATICA, Volume 64 (LXIV), No. 1, March 2019

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2019-03-30

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ODANGIU, F. (2019). The Actor Lost in Translation? Competence vs. Presence in the Teacher-Director’s Stage Directions. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Dramatica, 64(1), 31–46. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbdrama.2019.1.02

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