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The Delsarte Method, favored by Lillian Gish

#eyes #emotion #affect #Delsarte #Lillian Gish

This is interesting. When I was a pipsqueak in college, I took a costume design class where we studied Francois Delsarte’s systems of expression. Francois Delsarte was a Parisian who lived from 1811-1871, and believed that emotions and feelings could be symbolically expressed through visual means. For example: These are just a few Delsarte poses. [...]

Wanted to share this! It’s a set of three blog posts by a storyboard artist I’ve been following since middle school (?). She breaks down the Delsarte principles of physical expression, and it’s a GREAT resource for some on how to use gesture and pose to express your character’s emotions in a stylized way.

There are no hard and fast rules, but this has some useful and helpful ideas! Especially if you want to put your subjects in more interesting poses, this might get some brain juices flowing

#viv talks #delsarte #heather dixon #story monster #seriously i reread this post every few years

"Normal nymphs," the junior elocution class at Southern Oregon University, ca, 1888-1889.

Full information: https://cdm16085-contentdm-oclc-org.proxy.lib.uiowa.edu/digital/collection/p15013coll6/id/38

#Delsarte #elocution #dance history #Southern Oregon Univeristy

Greek Posture Class, 1889-90, Rollins College, taught by Grace Livingston (Hill), who later became a novelist.

Courtesy of the Rollins Archives.

#Rollins College #Delsarte #pantomime #Greek posture #grace livingston hill #physical culture

It’s out! http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/76xzh3xp9780252040719.html

Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre--dominated by women--achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth century.

Marian Wilson Kimber restores elocution with music to its rightful place in performance history. Gazing through the lenses of gender and genre, Wilson Kimber argues that these female artists transgressed the previous boundaries between private and public domains. Their performances advocated for female agency while also contributing to a new social construction of gender. Elocutionists, proud purveyors of wholesome entertainment, pointedly contrasted their "acceptable" feminine attributes against those of morally suspect actresses. As Wilson Kimber shows, their influence far outlived their heyday. Women, the primary composers of melodramatic compositions, did nothing less than create a tradition that helped shape the history of American music.

"In her fascinating and long-needed study, Wilson Kimber reconstitutes and interprets a set of pervasive but neglected practices that include not only elocution but also melodramatic performance, recitation in combination with music, and the activities of the verse speaking choir. In so doing, she helps to recover an elusive but crucial element of cultural history: the sound of women's lives."--Joan Shelley Rubin, author of Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America "A century ago, popular literature reached many Americans through the interpretive voices of women, women who--typically barred from the men's world of political oratory--cultivated a performance art in the home, the theater, on the traveling circuit. While revealing the huge variety of music used to accompany spoken narration, Wilson Kimber brings alive again the forgotten art of elocution through a close examination of the 'sentimental keepsakes' and pedagogical traditions it sought to preserve."--Michael V. Pisani, Vassar College

https://marianwilsonkimber.wordpress.com/

#The Elocutionists #Marian Wilson Kimber #University of Illinois Press #elocution #women in the arts #recitation #poetry #spoken word #women composers #melodrama #Chautauqua #Delsarte #choral speaking #concerts

113 - As all Gishers know, the form that acting took at the beginning of the 20th century was called the Delsarte style, a flamboyant exaggerated acting style (think of the fawning caricatures in silent movies). Take a scene from a contemporary film or tv show and re-enact it in the Delsartian style.

#Delsarte #superman #silent film #gish #team mothra

ITEM 113: As all Gishers know, the form that acting took at the beginning of the 20th century was called the Delsarte style, a flamboyant exaggerated acting style (think of the fawning caricatures in silent movies). Take a scene from a contemporary film or tv show and re-enact it in the Delsartian style.

#gish 2018 #gish #item 113 #the sopranos #delsarte #acting