Commedia dell'Arte: Character Shape
Each commedia character has a specific physical shape and way of moving. This film was made over a two day workshop with a group of young actors and lead by Didi Hopkins. The film was made by Deborah May.
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when your doing online school cuz if covid 19 and have to watch this but its not bad🙂
@rachelorr8288
4 жыл бұрын
Theatre appreciation 😒
@mehstyl8601
4 жыл бұрын
Yes everything has to be Zoomed, I have to do a skit on Lazzi video.
@sonikuucuteness3796
4 жыл бұрын
I don’t understand how this answers the questions from the paper on theatre 1
@milly5014
4 жыл бұрын
same doe
@milkeh7012
4 жыл бұрын
It really is :c i have to watch this video for performing arts :( it's so boring.
Pov: you have online school and you have to watch this
@malaikahqasim1160
3 жыл бұрын
yes lmao
@konaindonateswatertohersel3290
2 жыл бұрын
legit
@ninianimates7291
2 жыл бұрын
literally
@danielleusman7104
2 жыл бұрын
yes💀
@hddude9783
2 жыл бұрын
Yep
stop im doing this in drama 2024 this is my most favourite drama aspect so far omgg
2:50 what would you do if you walked into that class not knowing what it was?
@viyath1374
3 жыл бұрын
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
Oh god do we have to do this? I'm not running around with a mask on making alien noises while trying desperately not to laugh
@soulver1683
3 жыл бұрын
SAME istg
@brookuth2212
3 жыл бұрын
😭🤚
@viyath1374
3 жыл бұрын
@@brookuth2212 cri
@hddude9783
2 жыл бұрын
Exactly
@lexi2926
2 жыл бұрын
It’s the point of commedia
whos here for online school drama project
@williamtang1957
3 жыл бұрын
me
@Silver_633
3 жыл бұрын
meh
@nickolas8755
3 жыл бұрын
Me... From a Greek drama school 😂❤️
@ikeaforlife
3 жыл бұрын
ARGHHH YES
@laplacideAmour
3 жыл бұрын
me 🙄
im scared. I watched this in class
@maddy7573
7 жыл бұрын
stevie boy I watched it for homework
@spooky_binch6103
7 жыл бұрын
Top Smart I'm also scared didi Hopkins is gonna kill me for not liking drama class :[
@user-id3un2yb8q
7 жыл бұрын
Maddy Xxxx same
@fredjackson9925
5 жыл бұрын
Same. Gillotts???
@roadtriiip
5 жыл бұрын
s-same..... ms gibbons i love you but Holy Shit
yall ever just do drama homework the day before it due yea same
@bluocean2983
2 жыл бұрын
nah I do it the day after its due
@liltrish6788
2 жыл бұрын
pls I’m literally doing that
@hazy_days1465
2 жыл бұрын
The fact that I'm literally here to do that- We have a test tomorrow and I wasn't paying attention at all during our lessons
@poolmastergav
2 жыл бұрын
Lmao so reliable
Stepped on a Lego piece while doing the workshop for online class, really got the sounds out of me
Guessing everyone is here for online class💀
Genshin impact brought me here 😅, interesting where did they get the Eleven Fatui Harbinger. wanted to know how each Genshin char relate to the referrence.
@catstealer_
5 ай бұрын
Sameee
hi 7 dorothy who are watching this for their covid nine drama homeowrk lol
@zaraellis7409
4 жыл бұрын
Lol 7 Rose girl here 😂
@clina1192
4 жыл бұрын
heyy
@clina1192
4 жыл бұрын
@@zaraellis7409 Hi Zara LOL
@sunnykelly3916
4 жыл бұрын
Me lol
*when your doing drama homework thats due tomorrow and your supposed to watch this video*
@locallyasiancouk2400
3 жыл бұрын
Send me ur drama hw Alina 👺👺👺
@riqtides8024
3 жыл бұрын
lol same mr simpson finna haunt me if i dont :')
@al7naa_
3 жыл бұрын
@@riqtides8024 LAIILLAAAA!!!!HELLO DO UR DRAMA HW NOW
@riqtides8024
3 жыл бұрын
xAlinaGamingx I DID ITTT ALINAAA ITS SO POORLY DONE THO 😭😭
Thank you so much. ❤
Fantastic!!!
I'm from Colombia and it's exciting the idea to have the possibility to be in one class at the national theatre just watching this videos.
A phenomenal set of videos, thanks for sharing. One slight query - the Artful Dodger is described here as an Harlequino-type character, but to me he seems more of a Brighella - Fagin's second-in-command, cunning, in charge of the pick-pockets. Am I missing something?
the ending was awesome
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Arlecchino s movement reminds me of Dio from Jojo s bizzare adventure.
@friskierorca6212
3 жыл бұрын
Same
@MrKruger333
3 жыл бұрын
i see youre a man of culture
When we have to do this for school but u can’t do it cuz ur shy 💀😭😭
nobody likes davinci house. here for online drama lol
@TOCTAAM
3 жыл бұрын
same school?
@viyath1374
3 жыл бұрын
@@TOCTAAM arhum
@TOCTAAM
3 жыл бұрын
@@viyath1374 yes viyath
This is absolutely marvelous! So glad I stumbled onto this! What wonderous information :-)
Is that the same for Shakespeare as well I loved learning about commedia dell arte it gave me a better under standing of some of the movent for new characters I am studying acting and performing level 5 at college
Looks like so much fun. It made me laugh from my belly too.
@abukisami2200
7 ай бұрын
It’s not funny 0:49
@lashersquirrelslayer
7 ай бұрын
@@abukisami2200I don't think it's supposed to be funny at 0:49...😬
Where I can find the rest of the video?
Watching this for History of World Theater I in California,USA.
I am so happy we had lockdown at this time otherwise we would have to be doing this in school thank God😂
5:05 my Brain studying for ALL my exams and processing ALL the things I have to do in the week😂😢😮😅
Doing drama at home is hard but this isn’t bad!
@sok1154
3 жыл бұрын
Get a life😒
@squarecleo02
3 жыл бұрын
@@sok1154 mate they mean online classes :/
pure hippie
Thank you so much for making and posting these videos. My students and I myself have been profoundly inspired. Best Regards, the drama teacher at Frederikssund High School, Denmark
Cool vid
where's the witch
Mom come pick me up im scared
1:38 they look like W2S Wroaetoshaw/Harry when he's making a football vid😂
@brutha_edits
3 жыл бұрын
LMAO
I have to watch this for Drama homework I-
I'm here from genshin impact instead 😔
@catstealer_
5 ай бұрын
Same
Let me guess, online school drama class?
huh, ive gotta watch adults act like alien children for Drama online school. Guess Ill do it.
I spit out my coffee when I saw kabbalah
Okay now that all the theatre kids are here: Whats one of the most epic fails you have witnessed doing theatre?
@stevereid4222
Жыл бұрын
this comment is an epic fail ibr
All drama teachers are the same
whos here because of home work? 👇
This is my drama homework
the guys in the masks be looking like UK drill artists
gostei
Everybody: online class Me who's here just for fun: *hello fellow students...*
that dudes staring at her like what-
hehe this is for my homework and its funny :)
The Witch is never specified upon..was wondering if you could give me some pointers on that specific character shape?
fine
who was the target audience for commedia dell' arte
@KatZolitaMason
8 жыл бұрын
+heidi fairgrieve The target audience is everyone who wants to step back from and have a laugh at humans- at human nature- at the roles we play in life and take so seriously and see them -and ourselves hopefully, from a distance to gain insight while also being amused by the comedy
@shikatsu
8 жыл бұрын
+heidi fairgrieve Mainly folks on the streets, it gave people a chance to mock the high and the mighty, or that guy down the street who was more cunning than smart if you catch my drift.
sup Mr Kavanagh's extension class
This is so helpful! But I'm a little confused, where are Isabella and Flavio? They're both important characters with very distinctive movements as far as I've learnt, shouldn't they be included?
@shenaecasilli5756
2 жыл бұрын
Isabella and Flavio are inamorati so they do not wear masks. I think this video was highlighting the movements required to make the masks come to life
If my drama teacher would hear it, she would have a heart attack...
@MissPumpkinJuice
7 жыл бұрын
Why? :D
@mitibi
7 жыл бұрын
Yomayo because they fucked the comedia Dell Arte.
@MissPumpkinJuice
7 жыл бұрын
***** Oh, makes sense xD
me and the boys at 3am:
Fatui harbingers brought me here.
Someone looking at this and being like I'm telling mum and getting in trouble
Is it possible to attend this sort of workshop with Didi Hopkins or some other expert without being a member of a specific school? I am graduating as an actor in a few months and I am looking for workshops and seminars to take all over the world after I graduate. And this is really inspiring me.
@JasonKendallAstronomer
7 жыл бұрын
It's easy to do. Do it the way they did it. Get this book: www.amazon.com/Scenarios-Commedia-DellArte-Flaminio-Rappresentative/dp/0879101334 Choose a scenario. Get some friends. Dress up funny and pretty. Go out to the park. Do the scenario. Use your voices and jump around to attract attention. Fill in the scenario with bits and banter, and make your audience laugh. Repeat until you are famous. That is what they did back then, and it's what's to be done today. It is quite telling that the books you see on amazon about this art form are the same ones I used 25 years ago. And they were old books then. There are no new ideas about it, and that is kind of the point. The purists want it to be preserved for all time because of its truly great historic value and of the moments of liberation that you get in the classes you take while wearing the masks. However, unless you're willing to actually put on the show, and see what'll keep an audience amused or better yet, open their wallet on the street (That's the Dell 'Arte part) and give you cash for being funny, then you'll just have to spend crazy sums to find the gurus on the various mountaintops to teach you the exact position of your hips and neck to impersonate the imagined construct of a written down form of a memory of the 20 people who did Arlecchino as their actual job between 1560 and 1630. Oh wait, there is an important point to all this that you'll need to remember. In all places where they performed, there existed official royal censors. Those were high-ranking officials in the monarchy that allowed who could say what in public without being thrown in the jail. The Commedia Players got around this by getting approval for their skits in advance and getting official sanction from the local nobility. They also aggressively defended this position by getting the local police/gend'arme to arrest anyone who dared to dress up and do what they did. This combination of the stamp of officialdom and aggressive (nasty) business practices assured that they were famous for many reasons. When the family Flavio came to town, they were literally the only ones allowed by law to perform in their manner. That'll be tough to replicate, but hey, Trump's president now, so many things seem to be changing. I bet if you can get him to say commedia is funny, and make him want to watch that and only that, and if he never leaves office (!) then maybe, just maybe, when the commedia players walk into the Oval Office, all the courtiers will rise and applaud because the aged, but still stunning, Ivanka the Red will be watching who isn't clapping.
@candidacarino669
Жыл бұрын
To @ KarlPallson I'm not a drama actor/performer but I'd seen so many live stage plays in my life - - and I'd often wondered what you would have studied at theatre schools? I'm always enchanted tho - - seeing actors performing live on stage. And I'm inspired - - too.
Am I the only here just for my love for theater?
i dont know how to start my onolougue on arlequin and its due tommorow :(
@gamesgamerman5684
4 жыл бұрын
I hope it went alright
@valentijnvanhelsdingen2812
4 жыл бұрын
Games Gamer Man lol it was 2 years ago
@achi1657
3 жыл бұрын
@@valentijnvanhelsdingen2812 lmao
Nice sound levels Mr Avery xx
Hi 8eu2!
can i kin the zanni
😂😂😂😂😂 Tapped guys
lel so true
8A ❤️❤️❤️❤️
@khybolt5169
10 жыл бұрын
8A!!!
Here for homestudy
hi 7S
hey newman alevel drama if ur reading this plz help i don’t understand it at all 😃
????
My son is watching this for a 6th Grade assignment
hhi
jackson kids?
Bruh if no one in my from got cover then I wouldn't have to watch this
You start with the emotion of the caracter before you start reading text its counter intuitivt therefore its the right way
I AM A YEEEEEET
you forgot Isabella!
@azrielkoch1619
5 жыл бұрын
Isabella is one of the two lovers, officially known as innamorarta.
1:55
Does black clothing play a role in those classes?
@kaitlynbennett1951
8 жыл бұрын
A blank canvas-e.g theatre blacks does not distract yet enables one to create and become.
@3daysago266
8 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@AnnaTringhamCarmichael
7 жыл бұрын
Most (all?) drama students wear black. Less distracting. Started with Jacques Copeau at the turn of the 20th Century.
@rafaelcarvalho-photovideo9745
6 жыл бұрын
Black is a neutral colour... Thats the main reason why it is used in most of the drama classes and plays... You have freedom to create
DIO Approved
Lemme guess… Online drama?
im not doing this for school-
i am scared
@TOCTAAM
3 жыл бұрын
but why
8A 😘😘😘
@lemonyboi5844
3 жыл бұрын
ISH?
Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Homework :| I just want to 🏃🏻♀️💨
well our drama teachers seem to watch the same things
I got the answers!!! What does Didi say about where Commedia starts? Starts in the body. What does Didi say is the basis of everything, in terms of movement in Commedia? Hearing the breath. What do you notice the actors are focusing on when moving throughout the rehearsal space in the video? Running around and bouncing. What does Didi say about in between moments? However you turn make a moment of it. What does Didi say is the beginning of storytelling? Character and action. As a thanks for my help please subscribe to my channel
@alisharaheel8533
4 жыл бұрын
Shadowchan The hedgehog ewww no your KZread channel is sooooo boring make it fun then we will subscribe to ur channel
is anyone watching this who isnt doing this for school
who else is here because of corona virus
I'm a computer, I'm a computery guy, made all out of buttons and wires.two minuets later. DONT TOUCH MEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Yellow guys ears start to bleed. Don't hug me I'm scared quote
whatttttttttttttt even is DIS this is so WIIRRRRD
@MerlinsJester
6 жыл бұрын
Rohan HD it’s acting workshops for late medieval/renaissance troupe style theater, so I’m not surprised you’re freaked out
Esti que c bs
bruh
I'm here because of Taliesin Jaffe, not drama class.
Reported the video for terrorism
I hope this form survives.
Thier like chicken
@MerlinsJester
6 жыл бұрын
Brycefrodo101 they just like Zanni posture much more than is healthy
okay, who else is here for online drama?
@habeeb3743
3 жыл бұрын
Yup