The Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the postmodern dance world. It was first articulated by choreographer Mary Overlie, who broke down the two dominant issues performers deal with-space and time-into six categories. Since that time, directors Anne Bogart and Tina Landau have expanded her notions and adapted them for ...
In this guide, playwright and director Wangh leads actors and theater students through teachings and physical exercises developed by celebrated Polish director Jerzy Grotowski. Wangh's students describe their experience with these lessons.
F.M. Alexander developed the Alexander Technique of movement in the early 20th century. Combining vocal clarity and body movement, Alexander developed a performance coaching method that is used by dancers, actors, singers, etc. I"n The Actor and the Alexander Technique," Kelly McEvenue writes the first basic book about how this unique technique ...
In this resource for actors, movement teachers and directors explore the physical skills needed for the stage and the screen. The contributors, who are from diverse performance traditions, explain how their particular discipline came into being and why the skills involved are valuable to performers, and they present exercises and approaches for ...
Individual, partner, and group exercises to make "any" actor more expressive * Crucial acting tips based on the work of distinguished theorist Rudolf Laban * 65 original illustrations of anatomy and warm-up exercises Actors, improve your skills and become more expressive in body and voice by following the teachings of Rudolf Laban, one of the ...
This book is the first critical analysis of the key principles and practices informing the movement training of actors in the modern era. Focusing on the cultural history of movement training over the last one hundred and fifty years, it offers a conceptual framework for the understanding of key approaches to the training of the professional actor ...
This guide takes the reader step-by-step through the basic principles of movement and includes graded exercises. The handbook is for teachers, students, actors and dancers, who wish to learn and use the Laban system of movement. Most professional actors and dancers in Britain, Europe and North America know the work of Rudolf Laban, but his system ...
A course in all phases of acting and stage movement. Speech control, interpretation of a character style -- all the essentials of good acting are fully reviewed. Every phase of acting and motion is include: sitting, walking, standing, hand and arm co-ordination and opposition, the eyes, the head, body movement, exits and entrances, mechanics of ...
Acclaimed by audiences and critics for their highly innovative and adventurous theatre, Frantic Assembly have created playful, intelligent and dynamic productions for over fourteen years. Written by artistic directors Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett, "The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre" is the first book to reflect on the history and ...
The Intercultural Performance Handbook opens up a new world of technique for performers. The first ever full-length, fully illustrated manual for practitioners, it provides: a guide to the physical, vocal and improvisational dynamics drawn from world performance styles a new vocabulary with which to interpret plays from around the globe games to ...
Between 1908 and 1913, D.W. Griffith played a key role in the reformulation of film's narrative techniques, thus contributing to the creation of what we now think of as the classical Hollywood cinema. This book explores a critical period in the history of film acting: the emergence of the realistic "verisimilar" style in Griffith's biograph films. ...
In Through the Body, Dymphna Callery introduces the reader to the principles behind the work of key practitioners of 20th-century theater including Artaud, Grotowski, Brook and Lecoq. She offers exercises that turn their theories into practice and explore their principles in action.
"Physical Theatres: A Critical Introduction" is the first account to provide a comprehensive overview of non text-based theatre, from experimental dance to traditional mime. This book synthesizes the history, theory and practice of physical theatres for students and performers, in what is both a core area of study and a dynamic and innovative ...
Actors understand the importance of training the body to attain good breath control, movement, and agility. They must also develop the ability to express emotions when portraying characters. Less well understood, however, is the vital awareness of mind, spirit, and body that must be developcd and explored in an actor's education. Movement Training ...
This book attempts to re-think and analyze a contemporary actor's physical needs, looking at the actor's physical training not as a series of skills, but as a skill in itself, specific to the actor. Exercises are included to serve the actor, teacher, director, movement director, and actor's choreographer. (Theater Arts)
Committed to the arts as a vehicle for enhancing movement, listening, speaking, and performing skills, educators Rubin and Merrion show in this text how social development, curriculum bonuses, and a host of other outcomes support creative drama and music as primary to the development of the whole child. This practical workbook is firmly based on ...
Published in France in 1987, this is the book in which Lecoq first set out his philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes expressive form in a wide range of different performance traditions. He traces the history of pantomime, sets out his definition of the components of the art of mime, and discusses the explosion of physical theatre in ...
Elements of Performance is based on Pauline Koner's course of the same name taught at the Juilliard School in New York. It discusses her theories of the primary and secondary elements of the art of performing. The primary elements are Emotion, Motivation, Focus and Dynamics and the secondary are those of the craft: stage props, hand props, cloth ...
Step-by-step guidance enables readers to learn the concepts of Laban and Stanislavski while exploring eastern ideas of breath and energy. Divided into two major parts: Awareness - covers all physical aspects of acting with sections on: Body sensing: Exploration, Breath and Imagery Dynamic Alignment Energy, Metaphor, Action {inc, Laban's Energy ...
"The Expressive Body" is the first practical handbook on actor training that specifically addresses physical characterization as a fundamental element of the actor's craft. This book explores human behaviours to awaken the actor to the range of communication available through physical characterization. Author David Alberts shows the actor how to ...
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