Actor Movement: Expression of the Physical Being is a textbook and video resource for the working actor, the student and all those who lead and witness movement for the actor, including movement tutors, movement directors and directors.

Great actors are not simply great interpreters of text; they are also great interpreters of movement; able to ‘embody’ all aspects of a character’s life, with body and imagination as their instruments. In their work they are expected to become many bodies, all behaving differently from their own. Actors have to construct, inhabit and offer each character’s body, with its multiplicity of known and unknown physical expression.

Featuring:
Over 155 exercises
Four full actor movement processes for creating character
Over 20 illustrations and images
Complementary online footage supporting 26 of the practical elements

Inspiring confidence in the actor to make fully owned physical choices and develop a love of movement, this essential new textbook is ideal for those actors seeking to give to their movement all the complexity and range possible for great acting.

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Actor Movement with DVD is an essential resource to help explore existing movement techniques with actors, enabling them to interpret and understand these techniques, and ultimately to fully own them. It combats issues that actors may have struggled with and allows the actor to question and critique the existing practices of movement.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Actor Movement
2 Connecting with the Body
3 Seeking Neutral
4 In the Movement Studio
5 Observation and Translation
6 Transformation: Animal and Anthropomorphic
7 A Character’s Emotional Journey: Solo Dance
8 Exploring ways of being: Efforts and Codes
9 Personal Safety in Movement
Appendices
Bibliography
List of Video Exercises
Index

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<i>Actor Movement </i>offers enabling tools to explore, examine and develop movement techniques to fine-tune the actor's intuitive physical response.
Written by two experienced movement teachers and based on their classes in the highly-respected Movement course at Central School of Speech and Drama, London.
Methuen Drama publishes a wide range of practical resources and 'tools' for actors and performers on approaches to acting, voice-work and movement from leading industry practitioners and trainers.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781408134412
Publisert
2014-11-20
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Vekt
519 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336

Biografisk notat

Vanessa Ewan is Senior Lecturer on the three-year acting course and Co-Course Leader of the MA in Movement: Directing and Teaching at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK.

Debbie Green is Senior Lecturer on the three-year acting course at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK.