Assessment of efficacy of training of students' acting skills development

Important conditions of professional success of future actors are better stressresistance, formation of skills of self-regulation, development of cognitive, emotional manifestations, interpersonal interaction in theprocess of stage transformation. The study of the psychological traits of students of the first year of the Acting Department testifies tothe necessity of complementary psychological work with account of their individuality within training of creative abilities, developmentof skills of voluntary attention, memory, associative thinking, and formation of ''feeling of a partner''. We have developed a program oftraining of acting skills development. It includes exercises and techniques formed on the basis of analysis of development of acting byK.S. Stanislavsky, S.V. Gippius, L.V. Gracheva. etc. Training is composed with account of entrance testing of creative skills and isdirected at complex development of cognitive, emotional and behavioral manifestations of students. Basic tasks in realization of thetraining program were development of voluntary attention, imagination, memory, associative thinking, coordination of motion andrhythm, removal of emotional locks, overcoming of psychological barriers when interacting with others, reinforcement of feeling of apartner. This program has been developed according to the ethic norms for psychological projects. Its participants were students of thefirst year of the Acting Department of the Institute of Contemporary Art of Moscow. The study of the dynamics of students'psychological traits was carried out with the help of psychodiagnostic methods that allow obtaining objective information before andafter realization of the program in the experimental group as compared with the indices of the control group. Psychological examinationwas conducted a week after the complementary training with the students of the experimental group. The results of the repeatedinvestigation show better memorising, voluntary attention, manifestations of creativity in doing tasks among the students participating inthe training program. In addition, the experimental group shows greater need in persistence in goal-achievement, rationality ofjudgments, reliance on experience, better self-esteem. This has been conditioned by the development of motivation to achievement,which becomes urgent in the process of complementary training. The control group shows an opposite tendency: motivation ofachievement, strive for defending of their positions is replaced by more irrational contemplative stance. Results of realization of thecomplementary program of students' acting skills development have proven its efficacy.

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