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Memorization Secrets from Performing Artists
Published on 21. June 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-954744-65-3 (ISBN)
Description
In 2014, Brent Sverdloff published his first memory-related book about mastering names and faces. Now he's back with this collection of more than 40 interviews with performing arts professionals-actors, singers, musicians, and playwrights-who share their approaches to memorization.
Gathered over three years, these interviews offer creative and effective strategies to help us all improve our memory, on stage and off. The methods used by performers to get into character show us how to increase our mental agility, be more present, and raise our awareness of the power of language.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
371 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-954744-65-3 (9781954744653)
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A practitioner of trained-memory methods since his teenage years, Brent Sverdloff has helped countless students and professionals improve their powers of recall. Since 2004, he has led memory workshops at colleges, conferences, wellness retreats, and private businesses around the country. He is also the author of How Could I Forget You! A Creative Way to Remember Names and Faces. His professional career also includes long stints at cultural and educational nonprofits on both coasts. Brent held archival research positions at the Getty Research Institute and Harvard Business School; marketing and communications jobs at a contemporary art museum and performing arts conservatory; and executive director posts at a theater company, literary translation center, and community relations organization, all in San Francisco. More recently, he has taught liberal arts courses at colleges in the Northeast.