erkut tokman
I am a writer, poet, translator, editor, columnist, actor and engineer. I write poetry, short-stories and essays on literature. I have four poetry book published. I speak also French,İtalian,Romanian.
Location İstanbul and İzmir
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it seems that the shiftment from local to universal is dominant in the second, fourth and last stanzas where he arguablely analyzed of mankind's relation with nature.
it is likely disputable that a mouse is a center theme of the poem therefore the idea of focusing particulary on purpose does not seem perceptiblely centralized in the poem , infact, to my view... -
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Well, flash-backs and forwars both give a reader set of clues to unlock the novel's charecters and their actions/behaviours in the present time of the novel, those time-travellings to and fro bring into imagination more understanding of novel's circumtances as transient medium and details of the plot as well as we acknowledge charecter's phisicology,...
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Excellent team! I look forward to heading on this exciting journey.
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le parole sono difficile nel testo espositivo orale. Ci sono le nouve parole che non conosco come neologia, neologismi, occasonalismi etc. sono parole technice, devono essere capito in piu cercandole loro signifazione del dizionario.
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fra loro che conosco alcuni
https://www.garzantilinguistica.it/
http://www.tommaseobellini.it/#/
https://my.zanichelli.it/
Io uso spesso garzanti quando ho bisogna di cercare le parole. Ho anche hardcopy Garzanti nella mia casa. penso che le nouve parole si formano derivando della vita et della lingua attuale; dei libri degli scrittori contemporanei, ... -
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1. prendere appunti durante le lezioni.
2. chiedere domandi al professore sui punti non chiari dopo le lezione.
3. imparare le parole che non sono chiare cercandole nel dizionario.
4. fare compiti oppure esercizi
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la strategia: l'azioni seriali che hanno determinato per essere arrivato ad uno scopo
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I worked all week except the weekend. I went out for walking around and dinner. I did shopping. I watched television and surfed on internet. I read a book and listened music.
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Did she come to school yesterday?
Did they play basketball in a park the day before yesterday?
Did you learn well enough from your homework that your teacher gave you to do at home? -
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I did not walk last night to the cinema near by a train station.
I ate too much this afternoon.
I talked to my friend on the way to my home -
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I live nearby train station, to get reach there, I come out of my apartmen and turn left and walk past the supermarket and turn right and go straight until the school and turn left again continue to walk along xxx street until its end than again turn left and walk through yyyy street passing by the park until its end and turn right on the corner towards zzzz...
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to,at, on, along, on to, on , to , on, to , past, on, toward, on to, behind, toward, next, through, on, cross, on,from
all the road names and places are samely repeated as it was, nothing new to me. -
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1.to 2.on 3.opposite 4. next 5. in 6. near 7.to 8. between 9.on 10. opposite 11. opposite 12. near 13. at 14. next to
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yes, sure
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1.round 2.from 3. through 4. past 5. through 6. between
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couplet: twin stars that turn around each other and give more light out.
I have tried some of those forms in my writing such as Haiku, Ghazel and Performance Poetry etc. -
erkut tokman replied to Francis M
Thank you for sharing your observations on used terms in English poetry due to the Glossary.
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Rhyming can be used in poetry but not neccesarily needed, especially in modern poetry non-rhyming, free style may give more freedoom to a poet however as certain fundemantel element of poetry: sound may reshape and empower with rhyming at some rate while too many rhyming lines are giving sense of boring repetition and banality. I do not think Rhyming should...
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erkut tokman replied to Kingsley O-N
Not late..wellcome back
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My tools for writing have not changed over years, but added on new tools. I tend to use various tools. In the past my tools were rather limited with pen,paper, notebook whereas today I am using some new tools including computer, laptop, mobile phone, ipad, voice or video recorder etc. but honestly the most adorable tools in writing for me are still classical...
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erkut tokman replied to Priscilla Dicketts
Yes, heart, mind, soul, humanity. ecc.... they are instrinsically fundemental, so as a poet himself also a living tool of poety.
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erkut tokman replied to Kelley R.
For me the same, The Ryme Zone I heart first time from Helen I would like to check if it helps.
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I think my preferences are pretty much the same with Helen and Micheal, I need often simply pen and paper to write or note down something to build up the poem, notebooks are sometimes enter in my scope therefore I can choose special notebook to write or special pen that might motivate me. As Helen said, I can write everywhere and anytime, as Micheal said,...
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I would love to continue with MA Creative Writing programme.
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Hi Joanna, as far as I know there are always scolarships for MA programmes in Universties, there should be one available for you, why not to check on webstie and try?
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Hi Mr. Francis! Never late for anything whatever you may still desire to realize. I have been Derbyshire and I have spent beautiful and unforgatable times with an exceptional English Family who were all generous and respectfull to me. I have spent two different times in total, almost two weeks around Derbyshire, especially Mackworth Village where my good...
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erkut tokman replied to R L
I liked "sweet sweet away". Congratulation! it was nice to meet you in the review. The war poems written by poets throughout centuries have been always important to revitalize awarenees of the human conciousness, they are like archieves of human sufferings and still teachs us how to humanize ourselves.
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erkut tokman replied to Labrini Balomenou
Me too:) But I was so glad to receive it. I wish I could get even more reviews from other participants or from the course team as well. The review and reflection were really useful. I could review only two poem so far, I wish I could do even more, but my time is llimited:(( By the way thanks for the review!
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It was completely challenging, rewarding, corageous first week. Thank you very much for all the team that prepared it and the participants who helped me to understand different views . I learnt and practiced as well as improved my awareness on how to make a poem. Review and reflection part played pivotal role in the first week and I adored this sort of...
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Secondo me c'e una differanza fra abilita e strategie, infatti la strategie è dipendente ll'abilita: La strategia non puo funzionare senza abilita; intelletto oppure conoscenza quindi è relativamente più dipendente, siccome l'abilita è più indipendente e individuale. Ci sono anche le somiglanze fra due, tutte due possono essere sviluppati da una persona.
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Ho imparato prima settimana nello quello corso come dovrebbe essere lingua accademica italiana. Ci sono aspetti centrali per la lingua accademica quella che devia la lingua di ogni giorni. La lingua accademica è formale, complessa, rispettosa, curata, specifiche, distante, attente, confidenziale. Nei testi accademichi ci troviamo teorie, dati e fonti,...
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Certo che l'apprendimento collaborativo è utile e necessario per scambiare idee e condividere esperienze in modo da poter imparare piu rapidamente nell'interazione come gruppo. Ho avuto esperienze in quel modo ogni volta che ho preso corso online su Future Learn. Non credo che abbiano i problemi di questo apprendimento per gli studente universitario che...
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La scrittura era abbastanza difficile. Ripeto ancora una volta come ho spiegato prima c'erano parecchie parole di cui non conoscevo il loro significato come nouva concezione "segnica" e "gestuale", "astrattismo", " l'informale ossia" ecc. in quel senso era difficile di capire alcune frasi. Alcune parole eranno in corsivo perche penso che siano tecnici e...
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Questa scrittura è abbastanza difficile. C'erano parecchie parole di cui non conoscevo il loro significato come nouva concezione "segnica" e "gestuale", "astrattismo", " l'informale ossia" ecc. era anche difficile di capire il significato alcuni di frasi particulari del testo per me.
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Le parole usate del profesor non erano difficili. Chiaremente la lingua usate nel video era diversa da quella di tutti giorni, era formale, accademico, informativo. La lezione era decisamente formale. İl professore non stava exprimendo le sue opinioni personali ma ha realizzato le sue idee generale cioè che è stato concluso.
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il sommario: i testi espositivi sono informativi, specificate, complesse, articolati, precisi. Ce ne sono principalmente le due tipi, il testo espositivo orale e poi scritto.
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Se ho capito giusto "Formale, complessa, rispettosa, attenta, curata, specifiche, confidenziale, distante" sono le parole centrale che rappresentano aspetti principali della comunicazione academica.
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Grazie pergli esempi chiari per farmi capire la diferanza fra linguaggio academico e di ogni giorni.
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Certo che la lingua usata nella mia universita e la lingua dei ogni giorni nel mio Paese sono diversi. Si usano linguaggio accademico nella mia universita, in particolare la lingua dei professori quando insegnano include termini specifici e parole accademiche mentre gli studenti tra loro si usano la loro lingua preferita quella che meno accademiche. Tuttavia...
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Si, ho seguito alcune corse su FutureLearn, specialmente sulla literatura, fra il piu recente se chiamava "How to make poem". Suggerisco di participare al forum perche la comunicazione scritta sviluppa le nostre competenze nonche sequendo le istruzioni del corso.
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Grazie per consigliarci! Gli errori sono utile per imparare come i consigli.
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Grazie mille per avvisarci sul obbiettivi del corso. Sono utili per andare avanti.
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Ciao a tutti, mi chiamo Erkut. Sono di Turchia, vorrei migliorare il mio italiano del punto dell' academico e della gramatica seguendo quello corso su l'internet . Sono felice di conescervi (il team e gli altri) e penso che sia vantagiosso per me imparare da voi per il mio futuro.
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List of thing in and out of my office
On my desk:
1. Laptop/computer
2. Fix Telephone
3. Tea Cup
4. Pencil Box
5. Dossiers
6. Pin board
7. Remote control
8.Mobile phone
9. Sticker papers
10. Colored marker pens
11. A bottle of cologne
12. Green Tea with Ginkgo
13. Aleo Vera Soothing Gel
14. Glass Jar with sand and sea shells ornaments.
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erkut tokman replied to Pamela Berry
Socially realistic, enjoyable.
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erkut tokman replied to Ida Brandão
I liked the athmosphere too, the way of your rearranging words give the poem fairy ancient sounds as well as historical backround of warrior woman.
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erkut tokman replied to Ida Brandão
I loved the imagination!! Thanks!!!
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erkut tokman replied to Keith Wellsted (UK)
@KeithWellsted(UK) Well done! it works.
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erkut tokman replied to paul charlton
lovely Paul, Congrat! Nice,intriguing narrative sum of poetic stories with foods for thoughts.
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https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history
https://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/articles/europe-before-1914
The lines taken from mainly the second link and a fewest from the fist then I rearranged /reshaped the lines by shifting, adding words/conjuctions/cutting them.The words/ sentences in parenthesis are written/added directly by... -
Woow!!
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huh, liked it!
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very nice!
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In the forest of mind (1)
Monuments of unageing intellect (2)(1) Conrad Aiken- The Ego
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=26127
(2) William Butler Yeats- Sailinig to Byzantium
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43291/sailing-to-byzantiumI thought that those two lines matched well because "mind" and "intellect"...
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erkut tokman replied to Mark Howells
@MarkHowells Merhaba. Sevindim. Cyprus is beautiful. There are good poets over there. Nice to meet you
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erkut tokman replied to Ida Brandão
Hi there again, Ida
I live in Turkey at the moment, both in Istanbul and İzmir. I used to live and work London, Bucharest and Milan respectively.
In Colombia University , Turkish Prof. ,poet and translator (he was also formal Minister of Culture in Turkey and Dean at Bilken University in Ankara) Talat Sait Halman, he used to teach at Colombia... -
erkut tokman replied to Ida Brandão
Hi Ida,
First of all, it was pleasure to read your long message thanks! This time in reply I might be short, I apologize for it in advance, however I will redeem it.
Your name "Ida" is a name of mountain in Marmara region of Turkey, the mountain in a city called Balıkesir "Ida" (old mitological name) and "Kaz" dağları its modern name. Perhaps you may like to... -
erkut tokman replied to Mark Howells
He was the very first American poet whose poem I translated into Turkish, many years ago in order to introduce him our public.
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erkut tokman replied to Patricia M
Well, it is quite difficult poem to unite in mind.
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erkut tokman replied to Ida Brandão
Harlem Shadows is truly poignant poem. I loved the figure of speech " upon the earth's white breast" and the line: "The sacred brown feet of my fallen race!" at most.
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I chose a poem from Conrad Aiken : "The Ego" Why? Because:
First of All: Conrad Aiken is a poet whose name I have heart many years ago when I used to live in London where I had came across with his books in Poetry Library of Queen Elizabeth Hall. I had never read him trully that time and I remember well that I had only browsed through his books/poems so I...
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erkut tokman replied to Ida Brandão
"Howl" Genius poem that dropped from Genius mind of the poet's conciousness that travelled through American life and crisis as well as humanity...Molack!...in everyone I believe there is one Molack! "Eternal war is here"..."Heterosexual Money"....Ginsberg stamped his soul on humanity as he had been through once here as he was. In my last poetry book, I had...
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erkut tokman replied to Derek France
love its end line " and not your other heart?" imagine if everyone tells or finds their other heart instead of other head, how would be this world now?
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erkut tokman replied to Ruby Astari
Kinship is captivating poem with strong end, I really enjoyed especially the last bit, "between imagination and escape" before and after "the lines" woven exceptionally well interconnected to whole poem's story.
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I translated a couple of Maya Angelou poems into Turkish and published them along with long article on her. She has one of the most extra-ordinary life as a poet and human with full of dedication for life and writing and she struggled and resisted against all of injustices those which have been inequitable to her life
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Poetry magazine and Poetry Foundation webpage I have been following both for years, I had also hardcopy subscribition for Poetry magazine. It was nice to rediscover for me the Poetry Foundation, it is amagizing poetry archive with many rich content. I have read some poems of Derek Wallcot and Suzan Howe this time as well as their biographies. From "Omeros" and...
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Well, first poet I have met in my life was my father, he was writing poetry for my mother, family and hisself. He would read out them us sometimes. They were mostly ryhming poems. In my childhood, except of listening my father, poetry didn't take part major role. Mainly I got involved in poetry when I was 16 by reading the first poetry book in the house of our...
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erkut tokman replied to Jacki Kellum
"Bantams in Pine Woods" by Wallace Stevens, I have just read it, but difficult to comment such poem for me, since it seems complicated from different points , however it sounds well to mind, but definetely I enjoyed reading it, thanks!
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I agree with Heather Beck "Creative Writing encourages the capacity to see the world from different perspectives." and from the article I would say I match with the sentence closely " The poetry workshop is a space of sharing, speaking, listening, and learning from each other." How to write poety can not be tought however we can learn and practise on how to...
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erkut tokman replied to gillian shearer
Gillian, wow, I adored your comment. How beautiful your resemblance to a carpenter. Thanks for Hemingway quotation.
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erkut tokman replied to Jacki Kellum
Nice, Jacki. I liked the idea of distilling... you are right! however I doubt about "purity" although I aggee that it is essential part of it , is it always needed in poetry? For instance think of "Beat" poetry.
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erkut tokman replied to Kieran Walder
Hi Kieran, nice to read from you. What about performance poetry rather than Shakespeare style?
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erkut tokman replied to Jean Fitch
Hi Jean, really nice to read from you and your experiences, they are highly captivating and thought-provoking. Thanks!!
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I often think of and speak out about Poetry itself as if shaping or carving a sculpture. A sculptor thinks of a material of sculpture, its shape, size as a whole piece and this is always important to start up with, because those are the essence of "making" it, then comes on carving, shaping, etc. to embody it in appearing to eyes,working on details give it...
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"Unageing" the word that I chosed. This world somehow represents out of its direct meaning "age" but implying various meaning beyond it. Unageing as a word (adjective) was used with "intellect" so "unageing intellect" that refers something beyond the intellect, something like uncertain part of it, perpetuality or intution perhaps.
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One of my favorite poem is W.B Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium" : ...Whatever is begotten, born, and dies./Caught in that sensual music all neglect/Monuments of unageing intellect...After reading the Helen and Micheal's introducitons of themselves I scrutinized those poets they mentioned allthough some were not new to me such as Sylvia Plath and Dylan Thomas,...
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I really appreciate to know about the backround of each educator and to meet with them this way for the first time on that platform where I believe from those wonderful educators of the course: Prof. John, Dr. Helen and Dr.Martin I can learn as much as possible and I look forward to realizing it. This would be obviously very rewarding experience for me .
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Hi to all, I am turkish writer and poet, I have four poetry book published. I am so excited being here. I have never taken such a course before. I adore writing poetry in english apart from my native language, here I am to learn from the tutors and all others to improve how to write a poetry in another language as well as get some tips for key turning points...
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erkut tokman replied to erkut tokman
Thank you sir for your consideration.
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Thanks!!
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My last performance was in Romania in 2006, quite long ago. It was a proper stage of Theatre. It was play of Chekov "Ursul" and I was playing the main charecter. What I learnt from the experience is not always easy to use the space effectively in clasical text in order to extend the movement of body and expression, I used mime, corporal expression of...
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The video is too short to captivate the essence of the practice, I would rather expect longer. The movement are agile and neatly balanced by turning arounds and sticks....all seems fantastic and difficult to achieve in good quality of the movement
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This is really fantastic style of opera with many different elements of acting absorved in
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* The edutes were drawn from everyday life-routines that one can likely to apply in his/her life... They are simple human actions and I can imagine them in life embodied in many actions.
* Meyerhold was trying to device a new body language and create new physical expresiveness, balance, ryhtm into action which was simple as an appearance whereas... -
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Here come my questions:
1.) Why was the exercise consisted of two people?
2.) What was aimed the very first movement that started with bending forward, upright and ended with clapping?
3.) Why between movements they shake the legs by shifting and moving the hands upwards?
4.) Why the slap was chosen as a core act and reaction?
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Ryhtm, syncronization, responiveness, balance, expressiveness, flexibility, plasticity... ...some of other core elements that bring in acting/theatre ensemble I believe.
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Naturalism based on text/acting bounded by text and gave to the audience ready food to digest what the text reflected, implied or directly said to imagination is not self-inducing but prepared. It is fair critism that Meyerhold said Naturalism nullifies the audience's imagination in this sense.
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erkut tokman replied to Mahmoud Barakat
from which point of view do you think that the poem is speculative?
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It is really strong and impressive poem that touchs philospically on human , nature and their circumtances that came into thinking and feelings by proving the results of what they might bring about, I believe as over all result, it determines and critizes the nature of human-kind. I adored especially second and last stanzas that creates rather strong...
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I have never written screenplay but from now on I have quite enough ideas how to built up a draft. I was here to support my aim on writing theatre-drama in near future and somehow I found good clues for it in this course although the two are different. However, after taking this course has escalated my desire to write screenplay for short-films. I will...
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Thank you very much for all mentors! it was great course!
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erkut tokman made a comment
I think I have replied all those 2./3./4. questions on the previous step's comments board.
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erkut tokman made a comment
Thank you very much indeed for this rewarding course Mr. Jonathan Pitches !
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We approached to the end of the course...it was really nice journey for me and my very first experience of online learning.
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erkut tokman made a comment
Do you think that I can find Jonathan Pitches 's 2003 Roudledge publishing of Meyerhold book? There was one pdf e-book option but I could not succeed to download my computer blocked it.
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erkut tokman made a comment
Well, I watched from Youtube various videos of Biomechanics peformances especially the one with Genadi Bogdonov and original ones and then after new generations's today applications. I also checked various photos on internet and some skim reading in the lack of time. I see from videos athletic construction of body is molded into form more aesthetically...
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The slap action was one step ahead in comparison with previous preparetion to slap; what just atracted me much more to use body extention in wider limit in arc just before the get-ready intention-so the process of three steps was rather different than previous one because the second step action was very close and short than pause needed more balance. However...
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This discussion was also alike the previous one , each panelist had different approach on continuation of their very first thoughts on a draft copy. It was good to understand a bit better now how Tom manages to write and finish it because this was also what other panelists wanted to know and therefore they asked him questions.
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erkut tokman replied to stuart white
Interesting point. You may be right as you experienced it on live.. good example.Thanks but I think we should apply the format given by this course to us by now...otherwise especially for me this would be like jumping in a sea without knowing how to swim.
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This part was highly neccesary for me because while I was reading screenplays from BlackList When I read them through I did not understand some of the abbrevations and left and right alined remarks so now I am clearly aware of what they are, whereas I quess it needs time to absorb them in mind and practising in the draft writing.
