The Articulate Body: The Physical Training of the Actor - Softcover

Dennis, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0896761339 ISBN 13: 9780896761339

Publisher: Quite Specific Media Group, 1994

Synopsis

Lights go up, the actor takes the space, and is perceived by the audience. Communication has begun. The Articulate Body: The Physical Training of the Actor considers the unique responsibility of the actor to convey, through his physical being, the thoughts and feelings of the theatrical event. The actor's training must provide a process through which the actor gains the physical skill, imagination, and confidence necessary to be as articulate with his body as he is with words. This book attempts to re-think and analyse a contemporary actor's physical needs, looking at the actor's physical training not as a series of skills, but as a skill in itself, specific to the actor. Exercises are included to serve the actor, teacher, director, movement director and actor's choreographer as a point of departure in applying the principles and concepts of the book to their own work.

About this title

About the Author:

Dennis trained as a dancer, actor, and mime in the U.S., before winning a Fulbright to Paris, where she continued her studies with Etienne Decroux. She is based in London and Barcelona, where she is both teaching and directing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Quite Specific Media Group
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0896761339
• ISBN 13: 9780896761339
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224