Melissa Hurt

Arthur Lessac's Embodied Actor Training (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book situates the work of the renowned voice and movement trainer Arthur Lessac in the context of contemporary actor training as a whole.

Melissa Hurt uses Maurice Merleau-Ponty's theories of embodiment to frame Lessac's approach in terms of Embodied Acting, a key subject in contemporary performance. In doing so, she explains how the actor can come to experience both technique and expression as a subjective whole, through meditation and spatial attunement.

As well as feeding this somatic approach into a wider discussion of embodiment, the author provides concrete examples of how the practice can be put into effect, and studied at university level.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317914594
• Artikelnr.: 40808764

Autorenporträt

Melissa Hurt is a Lessac Certified Trainer and has taught acting and Lessac's voice, speech, and movement work at colleges across the United States. She has a PhD from the University of Oregon and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements...............................................................................
I. ARTHUR LESSAC'S KINESENSICS AND EMBODIED ACTOR TRAINING...
Contemporary Embodied Actor
Training.............................................
The Pedagogical Challenges of an Embodied
Practice..............................
Methods....................................................................................
II. GETTING TO KNOW
YOU.................................................................
Back to Basics: Body Wisdom
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Feeling the Process Within:
Breath....................................................
Body
Esthetics............................................................................
Gestalt.....................................................................................
III. BRAIDING PERCEPTIONS THROUGH HEIGHTENED AWARENESS.........
The Familiar Event Principle and Organic Instruction
.............................
Attention...................................................................................
Habitual Awareness Principle and De-Patterning
Principle........................
The Braiding of Perceptions Through
Gestalt........................................
The Flow Between Body Esthetics, the Familiar Event Principle, and Organic
Instruction........................................................................
IV. THE ACTOR'S RELATIONSHIP WITH
SPACE.....................................
The Actor's Inner
Space................................................................
The Actor Inhabits
Space...............................................................
An Expressive
Other..................................................................
V. SPONTANEOUSLY FREE......................................................
Braiding of the Sentient and
Sensible..............................................
Subjectivity in
Performance.........................................................
Accomplishing Dual
Consciousness................................................
AFTERWORD..................................................................................
A Word on the Importance of
Trust.................................................
APPENDIX A: SELECT TIMELINE OF ARTHUR LESSAC'S LIFE AND
CAREER.................................................................................
APPENDIX B: SAMPLE
CURRICULUM...................................................
APPENDIX C: EXPLORATIONS FOR PERSONAL DISCOVERY...................