Trainings and Training System in the Process of Mastering the Profession of an Actor by Students
Authors: Miziak V. 
Published: July 2023

The purpose of the study. To show the effectiveness and significance of training sessions and training systems during formation of professional skills in young actors. An additional goal of the research is to reveal the significance of practical self-education (particularly, in the form of various psychophysical training sessions) in the professional activity by the students of the Acting Department, Faculty of Theater Arts of Kharkiv State Academy of Culture.

The methodology. To solve the tasks specified in the article, the research methodology was chosen that is determined by specific and multi-layered nature of chosen topic and by the purpose of the study. Among the applied methods, the main one is a complex multidisciplinary method with an additional use of the authorial methodological materials. Besides, using this method the author relied on materials of generally recognized theatrical studies-related sources on the topic of the article. Principles peculiar to the method of analytical and synthetic processing of sources, as well as to artistic analysis, were also applied.

The results. From the very first hours of students’ studies, acting skills offer them forms of group- and partner-based training sessions and individual training sessions as the tools to learn the profession’s individual components in practice. The mechanisms of forming the habit for this type of work are related both to the mechanism of student-actor’s self-discipline and to the need for constant application of such a habit. When mastering and constantly improving his/her skills during training sessions and in individual training systems, student-actor also learns to use appropriate tools and methods aimed at improving his/her professional activity without wasting his/her time on ineffective exercises and tasks (because students have already tried this in their own experience and understand exactly how much this helps them). This, in turn, works to raise personal level of professional mastery. In accordance with industry standards of higher education, student-actors’ practical activity (both under educational assignments and during independent work) should be aimed at deepening the quality of professional knowledge, at development of creative abilities and students’ creative individuality, and their self-affirmation. 

The scientific novelty lies in the fact of being an attempt to generally systematize the implementation of the system of training sessions into the structure of educating the actors of drama theater and movies and to review these areas in the context of expediency with regard to social demands facing modern novice actors. 

The practical significance. Study of foreign expe-rience is a promising trend in the specified topic and can produce positive results in further scientific research. In addition, study of experience of acting schools close to the Ukrainian one can become a positive basis for further scientific research. Comparative analysis of speech techniques of the world’s most famous theater schools would also be relevant. This will both enrich the substantive component of the structure of teaching the entire line of acting-related disciplines and add depth to the general pedagogical essence in formation of subsequent educational disciplines for students specializing in theater, movie and television acting.