Ensemble Theatre Making: A Practical Guide is the first comprehensive diagnostic handbook for building, caring for and maintaining ensemble. Successful ensembles don¿t happen by chance: they can be created, nurtured and maintained through specific actions taken by ensemble leaders and members. Ensemble Theatre Making provides a thorough step-by-step process to consistently achieve the collaborative dynamic that leads to the group trust, commitment and sacrifice necessary for the success of a common goal.
Ensemble Theatre Making: A Practical Guide is the first comprehensive diagnostic handbook for building, caring for and maintaining ensemble. Successful ensembles don¿t happen by chance: they can be created, nurtured and maintained through specific actions taken by ensemble leaders and members. Ensemble Theatre Making provides a thorough step-by-step process to consistently achieve the collaborative dynamic that leads to the group trust, commitment and sacrifice necessary for the success of a common goal.
Rose Burnett Bonczek is a professor of theater arts and program head of the BFA in Acting at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA, where she specializes in improvisation, directing, and theater pedagogy; she received the Claire Tow Distinguished Teacher award in 2009¿10. She has directed professionally and in educational theatre for over 35 years, and is the festival director and co-producer of Gi60: The International One Minute Play Festival, Live US Edition. David Storck is a professor of Performing Arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design, USA, where he specializes in improvisation and character development. He directs improvised and scripted shows, both professionally and in educational theatre. Since 2000 he has taught ensemble-building workshops to everyone from school children to corporate executives and fellow educators.
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Introduction. Chapter 1: What is Ensemble? Chapter 2: Anthropology of Ensemble Chapter 3: Leading Ensemble Chapter 4: Creating Ensemble Chapter 5: Archetypes Within Ensemble Chapter 6: Mending and Maintaining Ensemble Chapter 7: Ensemble Making: Specific Recipes. Conclusion.
