Annie Loui

The Physical Actor (eBook, ePUB)

Contact Improvisation from Studio to Stage

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Physical Actor is a comprehensive book of exercises for actors. It is carefully designed for the development of a strong and flexible physical body able to move with ease through space and interact instinctively on-stage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351839105
• Artikelnr.: 54674732

Autorenporträt

Annie Loui works as a director/choreographer, and is the Artistic Director of Counter-Balance Theater. Her original physical theater pieces have been seen in France, Monaco, West Germany, Italy, and the United States. She runs the Movement Program for MFA Actor Training at the University of California, Irvine.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
1. WARM-UP AND ALIGNMENT
What we do and how we approach it
Warm-up sequence
2. SPACE
Spatial exercises
3. MIME
Alignment
Isolations
Direct application: improvisation
Mime illusions: articulated action
Slow motion
4. PARTNERING
The arc and the exercises
group 1: weight and counterbalance
group 2: weight support (skeleton)
group 3: floor support
group 4: lifts
5. CONTACT IMPROVISATION: practice and scene study
Preliminary improvisation
Contact improvisation
Contact improvisation with text
Contact Improvisation with a scene
6. CONTACT INTO REALISM
Contemporary comedy in contact
Contemporary comedy: out of contact into realism
Monologues in contact
Monologues: out of contact into realism
7. DEVISING
Movement theater creation
Preliminary Exercises
Structural elements
The guidelines
Critique
Devising with a group- CounterBalance Theater examples
Index