Through the Body: A Practical Guide to Physical Theatre

ISBN-13: 9780878301249 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str.

Dymphna Callery

Opis

Physical Theater is emerging as a vibrant, influential and increasingly popular approach to theater performance. In Through the Body, Dymphna Callery introduces the reader to the principles behind the work of key practitioners of 20th-century theater including Artaud, Grotowski, Brook and Lecoq. She offers exercises that turn their theories into practice and explore their principles in action. This book takes the form of a series of workshops that include: Preparation of the Body Mask-work Presence Complicite Sound E-motion Through the Body also includes a thorough bibliography and a contact list of training courses.

Recenzje

"The advantages of this book is that the chapters are short and to the point and the well selected exercises enriched by artistic, historic, etymological, and cultural information relating to their utilization." -- Annette Lust, Dominican University of California, ATME

Spis treści

Preface. . Introduction. Section I: Preparing the Body. Section II: Unmasking the Actor. Section III: The Playful Body. Section IV: The Sentient Body. Section V: Devising. Section VI: The Physical Text. Appendix. Endnotes. Bibliography. Index.

O autorze

Dymphna Callery is Head of the Drama Department at Wolverhampton University. A published playwright and poet, she has performed and taught throughout the United Kingdom.