{"id":316,"date":"2003-06-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-11T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqed2.wsmtechs.net\/spark\/ruth-zaporah\/"},"modified":"2015-08-03T11:19:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T18:19:40","slug":"ruth-zaporah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/spark\/ruth-zaporah\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Zaporah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"kqed-jwplayer\"> <\/div>\n<p><script>\njwplayer(\"kqed-jwplayer\").setup({\nfile: \"http:\/\/od1.kqed.org\/anon.kqed\/spark\/ruthzapora.m4v\",\nimage: \"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/spark\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/06\/ruthzapora-headshot.jpg\",\naspectratio: \"16:9\",\nwidth: \"100%\",\nprimary: \"flash\",\ntracks: [{ file: \"http:\/\/od1.kqed.org\/anon.kqed\/spark\/ruthzapora.vtt\", label: \"English\", kind: \"captions\", \"default\": false }]\n});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<style>\n.single-post .entry-content > #kqed-jwplayer_wrapper, .single-post .entry-content > #kqed-jwplayer  {\n    margin-left: 8.33333% !important;\n    padding-left: 0.625rem;\n    padding-right: 0.625rem;\n    width: 56% !important;\n}\n<\/style>\n<aside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">&#8220;Words are movements.&#8221; <cite>&#8211;Ruth Zaporah<\/cite><\/aside>\n<p><b>Ruth Zaporah<\/b>&#8216;s technique may have seemed radical when she began performing it in the 1970s, but today her style is well established and internationally practiced. Zaporah&#8217;s improvisational acting technique is known as &#8220;Action Theater,&#8221; and it encourages freedom of movement, language and mind in improvisation. <b>Spark<\/b> drops in on one of her classes to see Zaporah and her students at work.<\/p>\n<p>Zaporah&#8217;s students range from those who are entering the professional performance world as actors or dancers to those who simply have hopes of theatrical stardom. She takes the adage of &#8220;stage presence&#8221; to a new level by demanding that her students stay present in the moment by abandoning past, future, and current thoughts and give themselves up to improvisation.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"resource-links\">Resources<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Array<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drop in on a class taught by a world-renowned master of improv, Ruth Zaporah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8667,"featured_media":805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"coauthors":[18],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-theater","post_format-post-format-aside"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - 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