Rethinking the Actor's Body

Dialogues with Neuroscience

AvDick McCaw

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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How does an actor embody a character? How do they use their body as an instrument of expression?Rethinking the Actor's Body offers an accessible introduction to the fields of neurophysiology and embodied knowledge through a detailed examination of what an actor does with their body.Built on almost a decade of conversations and public seminars by the author Dick McCaw in partnership with John Rothwell (Professor of Neurophysiology at University College London, UK), Rethinking the Actor's Body explores a set of questions and preoccupations concerning the actor’s body and examines overlaps in research and practice in the fields of actor training, embodied knowledge and neurophysiology.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-04-02
Mått:158 x 232 x 18 mm
Vikt:480 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350046474

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Dick McCaw is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He has edited two books, With an Eye for Movement (2006) and The Laban Sourcebook (2011) and is the author of Bakhtin and Theatre (2015) and Training the Actor’s Body (Methuen Drama, 2017). He is a qualified Feldenkrais practitioner.

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Rethinking the Actor’s Body confronts us with the perspective to undertake the first steps towards something that in the long run could affect our understanding of not only the actor’s, but also the ‘ordinary’, everyday body.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface Introduction Part I – The Actor’s BodiesChapter 1 – The Presence of the Actor’s BodyChapter 2 – The Energetic BodyChapter 3 – The Vital Body and the Bodily InstrumentChapter 4 – Body Topologies Chapter 5 – The Sense of a BodyChapter 6 – The Body Which Learns Chapter 7 – The Emotional Body Chapter 8 – The Biomechanical Body Chapter 9 – The Anatomical BodyPart II – The Actor’s Brain Chapter 10 - Front Brain/Back Brain Chapter Chapter 11 - Learning and Memory Chapter 12 - Imagining the Body Chapter 13 – The Relation between Sensory and Motor Nerves Chapter 14 – Stage Fright and Keeping Your Head Conclusion