Training the Actor's Body: A Guide

Dick McCaw

ISBN 10: 1472587790 / ISBN 13: 9781472587794

Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Training the Actor's Body: A Guide
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472587790
• ISBN 13: 9781472587794
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

A practical guide to the principles of teaching and learning movement, this book instructs the actor on how to train the body to become a medium of expression. Starting with a break-down of the principles of actor training through exercises and theatre games, Dick McCaw teaches the actor about their own body and its possibilities including: the different ways it can move, the space it occupies and finally its rhythm, timing and pacing.
With 64 exercises supported by diagrams and online video, Dick McCaw draws on his 20 years of teaching experience to coach the reader in the dynamics of movement education to achieve a responsive and articulate body.

About the Author

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.