The Imagining Body in Performer Training

ISBN-13: 9781138365933 / Twarda / 2024 / 200 str.

Ellie Nixon

Opis

This book is a practical and theoretical exploration of the embodied imagining processes of devised performance in which the human and more-than-human are co-implicated in the creative process.

Recenzje

"In this very impressive book Nixon weaves her chosen elements together with great assuredness and creative acumen. The Imagining Body is many things: a theoretical guide to where Lecoq and Bachelard meet; a sharing of the practical utility of air, fire, earth, and water; a primer on imagination; a personal, reflective account of a long-standing Lecoq-inspired practice; and a repository of fascinating practitioner interviews. In less capable hands, this could be a confusing mix. But here, ideas accumulate and mix in highly productive and stimulating ways for the reader."

Professor Jonathan Pitches, Head of School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds

Spis treści

List of figures                                                                                                                           

Acknowledgements                                                                                                                   

Interviews                                                                                                                                

 

Introduction

Chapter 1. Jacques Lecoq and Gaston Bachelard: towards a training paradigm for the embodied life of imagining

Chapter 2 AIR Global Flights: imagination as a worldly process

Chapter 3 FIRE Inflaming the imagining attitude

Chapter 4 EARTH Penetrating the depths of the resistant world and the will to action

Chapter 5 WATER Co-poiesis and the will to expression

Chapter 6 REPERCUSSIONS Eco futures for the imagining body  

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Ellie Nixon is Director of Film and Performing Arts at Norwich University of the Arts, UK. An actor, director and co-founder of La Mancha Theatre Company and La Mancha International Theatre School of Image and Gesture in Chile.