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Actor movement : expression of the physical being ; a movement handbook for actors / Vanessa Ewan and Debbie Green.

By: Ewan, Vanessa, 1960- [author.]Contributor(s): Green, Debbie, 1956- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015Description: xiii, 322 pages : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781408166123 (ebook)Subject(s): Movement (Acting) | Performing Arts | Acting techniquesGenre/Form: Online access: Click here to access online Also available in printed form ISBN 9781408134412Summary: 'Actor Movement' is a 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. 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

'Actor Movement' is a 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. 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.

Also available in printed form ISBN 9781408134412

Electronic reproduction. Askews and Holts. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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