Acting with Passion: A Performer's Guide to Emotions on Cue

ISBN-13: 9781408183731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 184 str.

Niki Flacks

Opis

Based on the latest research from the fields of neuroscience and mind-body psychology, Acting With Passion offers a revolutionary new approach to the age-old problems of the actor: dealing with nerves, engaging the body, quieting the inner critic, auditioning, creating a character, and even playing comedy.
With this step-by-step guide, actors who have struggled with 'visualization' and 'emotional recall' can learn an alternative method of accessing feelings through the release of chronic, subtle muscular tensions that connect into the brain at lightning fast speed and can actually produce emotions on cue.
Written with verve and accessibility, and using practical exercises to guide the actor through each stage, Acting With Passion is the must-have text for actors seeking that magical 'state of aliveness'.

Recenzje

A frighteningly simple super-highway into an actor's well of creativity and passion. Stephen Beckett, actor

Spis treści

Prologue: The Journey Begins Chapter One: The Holy Grail - Emotions on Cue Chapter Two: Memorization - A Fresh Look and No Whinging, Please Chapter Three: A Conversation with Your Intellect and Dungeon: Before We Tune Chapter Four: Self-tuning: The Keys to the Kingdom Chapter Five: The Subtle Cues for Re-tuning: The Great Balancing Act Chapter Six: Gesturing - Why Should It Be So Difficult? Chapter Seven: Consummate Artistry: Style, Character and Comedy Chapter Eight: Auditions: Your Chance to Shine Resources: Passionate lifelong learning

O autorze

NikiFlacks' career as director, actor, teacher, psychologist, spans bothsides of the Atlantic. Flacksis a frequent tutor at the Actors Centre in London's West End and at theAlgonquin Theater in New York.She wasinvited to Israel by the British Council to train both professional actors andpromising student-actors.Her verypopular workshops in Paris led to her being invited to be part of theprestigious faculty of European A.C.T. teaching actors in London, Paris andBerlin. She has been an assistant professor of theatre at Southern MethodistUniversity and holds a B.S. from Northwestern University and an M.S.W. from TheUniversity of Texas at Arlington.