Lucid Body: A Guide for the Physical Actor - Softcover

Simpson, Fay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1581156510 ISBN 13: 9781581156515

Publisher: Allworth Press, 2008

Synopsis

The Lucid Body reveals how each body holds the possibility of every human condition. With Fay Simpson’s help, actors can better analyze character, hear their inner bodies, dissect the self into layers of consciousness, and more.

Engage your mind and your body in order to develop your characters fully. The Lucid Body technique breaks up stagnant movement patterns and expands your emotional and physical range. Through energy analysis, this program shows how to use physical training to create characters from all walks of life—however cruel, desolate, or neurotic those characters may be. Rooted in the exploration of the seven chakra energy centers, chapters include:

• Nonjudgmental Mind
• Audible Exhale
• Meditation
• What is a Chakra?
• The Heart
• The Throad
• The Crown
• Taking Off the Armor
• Finding Your Persona
• And much more,

This book offers you a way of thinking and a set of tools that can lead you through a process of self-examination that will help you release old physical and emotional habits in the hope of expanding your acting potential.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Howard has been a major force in American theater for more than seven decades. After studying with Sanford Meisner in the 1940s and Lee Strasberg in his private classes and in the Actors Studio in the 1950s, Howard enjoyed an acting career that led him to work with such American luminaries as Clifford Odets and Uta Hagen before moving on to direct and teach. He served as the first artistic director of Atlanta's Alliance Theater and later on the faculties of Julliard and Yale University. A teacher for more than fifty years in the studio he founded, Michael Howard Studios, he has been and continues to be a trainer of actors who have achieved international recognition.

Edition details

• Publisher: Allworth Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1581156510
• ISBN 13: 9781581156515
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224