The Laban Workbook for Actors (Theatre Arts Workbooks): A Practical Training Guide with Video - Softcover

Katya Bloom; Tom Casciero; Jennifer Mizenko; Claire Porter; Barbara Adrian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474220673 ISBN 13: 9781474220675

Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017

Synopsis

The Laban Workbook is a compendium of unique exercises inspired by the concepts and principles of movement theorist and artist, Rudolf Laban.

Written by five internationally recognized movement experts, this textbook is divided into single-authored chapters, each of which includes a short contextual essay followed by a series of insight-bearing exercises. These expert views, honed in the creation of individual approaches to training and coaching actors, provide a versatile range of theory and practice in the creative process of crafting theatre. Readers will learn:

Enhanced expressivity of body and voice;
Clearer storytelling, both physical and vocal, facilitating the embodiment of playwrights' intentions;
Imaginative possibilities for exploring an existing play or for creating devised theatre.

Featuring many exercises exploring the application of Laban Movement Studies to text, character, scene work, and devised performances - as well as revealing the creative potential of the body itself - The Laban Workbook is ideal for actors, teachers, directors and choreographers.

About this title

About the Author:

Katya Bloom, PhD, taught Laban on the core acting course at RADA in London, 1989 to 2009...Author of The Embodied Self, and co-author of Moves, she is based in the USA.

Barbara Adrian is a Professor of Theatre Arts at Marymount Manhattan College, NY, USA. She is author of Actor Training the Laban Way.

Tom Casciero PhD is a Theatre Professor at Towson University, MD, USA.

Jennifer Mizenko is a Professor of Dance and Movement for the Actor at the University of Mississippi, USA

Claire Porteris a freelance Movement specialist, performer and director. She teaches at NYU, and internationally. Based in the USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1474220673
• ISBN 13: 9781474220675
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256