Vanessa Ewan, Kate Sagovsky

Laban's Efforts in Action (eBook, PDF)

A Movement Handbook for Actors with Online Video Resources

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

As an actor, awareness of your movement is the key to transformation. By making deliberate physical choices, you can fully and articulately embody different ways of being: you can become someone or something else. Laban's Efforts give you a way of identifying and making these choices. Working with them helps the actor to create wholly present and physically ambitious performances.

This book outlines Ewan's practical process, which allows the actor to understand their own movement and that of others by exploring one key part of Laban's work: the 'Efforts of Action Drive'.

This complete, stage-by-stage, working process has been developed through more than thirty years of work with actors in the studio. Clear instructions for practical exercises are woven throughout the book, as well as exciting ways to apply the work in rehearsal, performance and on set. This allows the actor to learn and apply Laban's Efforts for themselves. Full video and audio resources allow the reader to experience the practical work in action.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472532428
• Artikelnr.: 54950458

Autorenporträt

Vanessa Ewan is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Movement at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, having joined the school in 1989. She is a graduate of the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance and has worked previously as Head of Movement at E15, as well as having taught at Webber Douglas, Guildhall and RADA.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION Laban and His Work Laban's Work on Effort Approaching the
Efforts About this Book How to Use this Book Part A: THE BIGGER PICTURE
CHAPTER ONE: MOVEMENT AND THE ACTOR What is Movement? What is Effort? What
is Action? Laban's Efforts and the Actor CHAPTER TWO: UNLOCKING MOVEMENT
POTENTIAL The Body in Space Basic Locomotion The Body as Orchestra Part B:
BUILDING BLOCKS CHAPTER THREE: WEIGHT, TIME, SPACE The Motion Factors
Examining Weight, Time, and Space CHAPTER FOUR: EMBODYING THE MOTION
FACTORS Weight Time Space Discovering the Eight Basic Efforts Part C:
DISCOVERING THE EFFORTS CHAPTER FIVE: ABOUT THE PROCESS Process Overview
Basic Philosophies CHAPTER SIX (a): THE PROCESS WITH FLOATING Preparation
Meeting the Effort Mapping the Effort The Effort as Code A Journey (Guided
Improvisation) Efforts in the World CHAPTER SIX (b): THE OTHER SEVEN
EFFORTS Dabbing Wringing Thrusting Pressing Flicking Slashing Gliding Part
D: THE EFFORTS AT PLAY CHAPTER SEVEN: THE EIGHT EFFORT ARCHETYPES What is
an Effort Archetype? Embodying the Eight Effort Archetypes Applying the
Eight Effort Archetypes Observing the Eight Effort Archetypes CHAPTER
EIGHT: THE EFFORT WEAVE What is an Effort Weave? Effort Weave Preparation
Basic Effort Weave Internalised Effort Weaves Effort Weaves with An Agenda
CHAPTER NINE: EFFORT DUOS What is an Effort Duo? Discovering Effort Duos
Embodying Effort Duos Effort Equation Creating Effort Equations Part E:
APPLYING THE EFFORTS CHAPTER TEN: ADVANCED EXPLORATIONS Uniting Efforts and
Text 'Giving Birth': Embodied Storytelling Creating a Precise Physical
Score 'Cloning': Discovering Characters 'Gallery-Glide': Unlocking Text
Manifesting Thoughts and Feelings: Subtext in Action 'Bottling': Mapping
Bottled Emotions CHAPTER ELEVEN: EFFORTS IN REHEARSAL Preparation Creating
Character The World of the Play Advanced Observation Final Reflections
APPENDICES APPENDIX A: NOTES ON PROCESS The Role of Flow Self-Reflection
Control Working with Gestures Working with Vocalisation Using Music The
Game of Life Relating to Constraints APPENDIX B: A NOTE ON WORD CHOICES
APPENDIX C: FOCUSING THE WORK FOR THE ACTOR APPENDIX D: MUSIC SUGGESTIONS
GLOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY LIST OF VIDEO RESOURCES ABOUT THE AUTHORS INDEX