"Basic Stage Movement" Slide Presentation for Drama and Theatre Students

This is an excellent introduction to stage movement and stage terminology for new drama students or as a review for drama students working on a performance. It contains 31 slides, including a six question quiz at the end. The presentation breaks things down into 3 parts: Theatre is Not Reality, Body Positioning, and Moving Onstage. After each section, there is a summary of main ideas. Most slides have accompanying notes for the teacher to use for class discussions and demonstrations. Appropriate for grades 4 – 8th.

Included is a MS PowerPoint presentation, a PDF of the presentation, and a PDF of the slide notes for the teacher.

Vocabulary Covered:
1. reality
2. illusion
3. focus
4. focal point
5. composition
6. uniqueness
7. open
8. closed
9. quarter
10. profile
11. upstaging
12. transition
13. cross
14. counter-cross

Objective: Students will be able to use basic stage terminology and understand how to move appropriately in a scene onstage.

This presentation can be used by itself, or follow the "What is Theatre?" and /or the "The Parts of the Theater" presentations by Kateri J. Davis available in her store.

Created by Mrs. Kateri J. Davis, Birdhouse Publications 2016.