Breathing, Movement, Exploration

by Sellers-Young, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9781557834706
• ISBN10: 1557834709
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

Summary

Breathing, Movement, Exploration is a groundbreaking approach to how to use your body. Barbara Sellers-Young combines body mechanics and eastern and western philosophy to create a new visceral awareness of the performance process. Its simple, step-by-step structure enables the reader to learn the concepts of Laban and Stanislavski while exploring eastern ideas of breath and energy. BREATHING, MOVEMENT, EXPLORATION is a useful blueprint for how to use your body on stage. It speaks to professionals as well as anyone fascinated by the inner-process of an actor's training or to gain cognitive and physical insight into one's own self.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	xv
Part One: Awareness
Body Sensing: Exploration, Breath, and Imagery	3	(54)
Three Body Processes	3	(10)
Body Attitude	13	(7)
Stress, Body Attitude, and Awareness	20	(5)
Body Listening	25	(3)
Breath and Awareness	28	(26)
The Intuitive Body	54	(3)
Dynamic Alignment	57	(71)
What is Dynamic Alignment?	57	(16)
Imagery and Kinetic Connections	73	(49)
Locomotion	122	(6)
Energy, Metaphor, Action	128	(36)
Laban's Energy System	132	(23)
Action	155	(3)
Observation and Analysis	158	(6)
Part Two: Application
Mask, Myth, and Archetype	164	(40)
Self Mask	167	(7)
Neutral Mask	174	(14)
Archetypal Mask	188	(16)
Performing an Identity: Creating Character	204	(24)
Text Analysis	206	(5)
Self, Actor, and Character	211	(7)
Embodying a Performance	218	(9)
Final Thoughts	227	(1)
Appendix: Daily Practice	228	(8)
References	236	(12)
Index	248