Movement for actors / edited by Nicole Potter.
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TextPublication details: New York : Allworth Press,U.S., 2002Description: x, 277 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9781581152333 (pbk.) :; 1581152337 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Movement (Acting) | Acting techniquesDDC classification: 792.028 Summary: In this resource for actors, movement teachers and directors explore the physical skills needed for stage and 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 actors. The work provides an insight into the physical skills, techniques and styles developed and used in 20th- and 21st-century performance, and readers who wish to explore a particular discipline should be able to jump to the chapter that pertains to their area of interest - whether it be Alexander technique, the work of Tadashi Suzuki, or period movement for the plays of Moliere.
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Includes suggested reading and bibliographies (p. 267-270) and index.
In this resource for actors, movement teachers and directors explore the physical skills needed for stage and 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 actors. The work provides an insight into the physical skills, techniques and styles developed and used in 20th- and 21st-century performance, and readers who wish to explore a particular discipline should be able to jump to the chapter that pertains to their area of interest - whether it be Alexander technique, the work of Tadashi Suzuki, or period movement for the plays of Moliere.
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