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Imaginația, produs al memoriei
Imagination, a product of memory

Author(s): Nicoleta Hâncu
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Psychology, Sociology of Art
Published by: Editura Universitatii LUCIAN BLAGA din Sibiu
Keywords: memory; conceptual confinement; imagination; ludic spirit; play; exploration;

Summary/Abstract: The theme of the study was born out of a personal and professional urge to understand how and what makes an individual so unpredictable, an attempt to decode and decant the scenic process through the analysis of the social and essential theatrical instrument – physic and psychic memory. The art of acting is based on “self-discovery, self- disclosure and self-knowledge”, a process of “initiation and a loss of specialization, of conventional behavioural habits gained in society”. All methods and theories are mentioning the same concept, the recovery of the whole individual potential and the formation of new skills specific to the activity mentioned, to overcome the limits. But how do we get there? Which is the main source? Ion Cojar mentions that „the actor has to master simultaneously two entities: Sense and Sensibility”. Sense means control and moderation, but what do we mean by Sensibility? Or, what triggers sensibility in a theatrical act, to what do we appeal to help us understand a certain situation and character, physically and psychically? The author has tried to prove that every process that has been realized during a person’s lifetime, is based on memory – the function which determines the continuity of an identity over time – and also that it can become an instrument in the interpretative and theatrical art, which offers methods of solving situations which are more or less actual.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 62-65
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Romanian