Laban's Efforts in Action: A Movement Handbook for Actors with Online Video Resources - Hardcover

Ewan, Vanessa; Sagovsky, Kate

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1472528166 ISBN 13: 9781472528162

Publisher: Methuen Drama, 2018

Synopsis

As an actor, awareness of your movement is the key to transformation. By making deliberate physical choices, you can fully and articulately embody different ways of being: you can become someone or something else. Laban's Efforts give you a way of identifying and making these choices. Working with them helps the actor to create wholly present and physically ambitious performances.

This book outlines Ewan's practical process, which allows the actor to understand their own movement and that of others by exploring one key part of Laban's work: the 'Efforts of Action Drive'.

This complete, stage-by-stage, working process has been developed through more than thirty years of work with actors in the studio. Clear instructions for practical exercises are woven throughout the book, as well as exciting ways to apply the work in rehearsal, performance and on set. This allows the actor to learn and apply Laban's Efforts for themselves. Full video and audio resources allow the reader to experience the practical work in action.

About this title

About the Authors

Vanessa Ewan is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Movement at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, having joined the school in 1989. She is a graduate of the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance and has worked previously as Head of Movement at E15, as well as having taught at Webber Douglas, Guildhall and RADA.

Kate Sagovsky works as a theatre practitioner, specialising in movement-based work and cross-art-form performance, and is the artistic director of Moving Dust theatre company.

Edition details

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472528166
• ISBN 13: 9781472528162
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304