Dick Mccaw

Rethinking the Actor's Body (eBook, ePUB)

Dialogues with Neuroscience

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350046481
• Artikelnr.: 58712782

Autorenporträt

Dick McCaw is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has edited two books, With an Eye for Movement (on Warren Lamb's development of Rudolph Laban's movement theories) and The Laban Sourcebook. He is a qualified Feldenkrais practitioner.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Part I
The Actor's Bodies Chapter 1
The Presence of the Actor's Body Chapter 2
The Energetic Body Chapter 3
The Vital Body and the Bodily Instrument Chapter 4
Body Topologies Chapter 5
The Sense of a Body Chapter 6
The Body Which Learns Chapter 7
The Emotional Body Chapter 8
The Biomechanical Body Chapter 9
The Anatomical Body Part 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