What is Acting?

Answer 1

Acting is the manifestation of something that is not

We act everyday in every situation...with a boss, friend, loved one, enemy, even with a check out girl...everyone

We fulfill and act in certain ways according to specific schemas
for ex. you act a certain way when you go to a fast food restaurant, but act completely differently when going to a 5 star place

In terms of theater, acting is taking an authors words and breathing life into a character, situation, or circumstance...when one acts they take a character and add a bit of themselves into them...eventually the two will mesh into one and the actor can think, feel, and react as the character would as if it were themselves

Not to get all philosophical on you, but to me, acting is bringing to life what is not real...making something in the moment as if it could be happening in the street right now

Answer 2

Art of representing a character on a stage or before a camera by means of movement, gesture, and intonation.

Acting in the Western tradition originated in Greece in the 6th century BC; the tragedian Thespis is traditionally regarded as founder of the profession. Aristotle defined acting as “the right management of the voice to express various emotions” and declared it a natural gift that he doubted could be taught. Acting declined as an art in the Middle Ages, when Christian liturgical drama was performed by craft guilds and amateurs. Modern professional acting emerged in the 16th century with Italy's commedia dell'arte troupes. It flourished during the era of William Shakespeare. Not until the 18th century, however, was acting considered a profession to be taken seriously, through the efforts in England of the actor-manager David Garrick and the talents of actors such as Sarah Siddons, Edmund Kean, and Henry Irving. Modern acting styles have been influenced by Konstantin Stanislavsky's emphasis on the actor's identification with his role and by Bertolt Brecht's insistence on the objectivity and discipline of the actor. The Stanislavsky method was adopted in the U.S. by Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler (1901–92) and is the basis of most contemporary training, which features the cultivation of emotional and sense memory, physical and vocal training, and improvisation.

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Answer 3

Acting is to use the full ability of your body in order to be a caracter. Acting can take place irl or on stage or in front of a camera. Acting often include the use of costumes and affects to help the audience identify your caracter.
Exemples of acting: a play, movies, tv series, lajve and opera. Johan

Answer 4

You have one good answer above. the one that says acting is reacting. The full definition of acting according to Tony Barr is "reacting to stimuli in imaginary circumstances in a creative and dynamic manner that is true to the character and his environment so as to communicate ideas and emotions to an audience>" Acting is not "being", it is not "pretending"

Answer 5

Basically, acting is pretending. It's your half of a bargain you strike with the audience. You pretend to be someone or something you're not, and the audience accepts this. (Literature teachers call this "suspension of disbelief".)

Answer 6

Acting is reacting, and always telling the truth.

Answer 7

When you preform "act" like someone your not and put on a show.

Answer 8

Acting is behaving not being yourself.

Answer 9

"Acting"?

There is no such thing.

There is only being.

Either one is the character or one is not.