How does an actor embody a character? How do they use their body as an instrument of expression?
Rethinking the Actor's Body offers an accessible introduction to the fields of neurophysiology and embodied knowledge through a detailed examination of what an actor does with their body.
Built on almost a decade of conversations and public seminars by the author Dick McCaw in partnership with John Rothwell (Professor of Neurophysiology at University College London, UK), Rethinking the Actor's Body explores a set of questions and preoccupations concerning the actor's body and examines overlaps in research and practice in the fields of actor training, embodied knowledge and neurophysiology.
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Rethinking the Actor's Body confronts us with the perspective to undertake the first steps towards something that in the long run could affect our understanding of not only the actor's, but also the 'ordinary', everyday body. * Skene: Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies * This is an excellent book. ... with such excellent, succinct confirmations and revelations entirely backed up by his dialogues with science. It is indispensable in this regard. * National Drama *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-350-04646-7 (9781350046467)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Dick McCaw is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He has edited two books, With an Eye for Movement (2006) and The Laban Sourcebook (2011) and is the author of Bakhtin and Theatre (2015) and Training the Actor's Body (Methuen Drama, 2017). He is a qualified Feldenkrais practitioner.
Autor*in
Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Preface
Introduction
Part I - The Actor's Bodies
Chapter 1 - The Presence of the Actor's Body
Chapter 2 - The Energetic Body
Chapter 3 - The Vital Body and the Bodily Instrument
Chapter 4 - Body Topologies
Chapter 5 - The Sense of a Body
Chapter 6 - The Body Which Learns
Chapter 7 - The Emotional Body
Chapter 8 - The Biomechanical Body
Chapter 9 - The Anatomical Body
Part II - The Actor's Brain
Chapter 10 - Front Brain/Back Brain Chapter
Chapter 11 - Learning and Memory
Chapter 12 - Imagining the Body
Chapter 13 - The Relation between Sensory and Motor Nerves
Chapter 14 - Stage Fright and Keeping Your Head
Conclusion
