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Bringing the Body to the Stage and Screen Expressive Movement for Performers

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ISBN-10: 0810881241

ISBN-13: 9780810881242

Edition: 2011

Authors: Annette Lust

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As stage and screen artists explore new means to enhance their craft, a new wave of interest in expressive movement and physical improvisation has developed. And in order to bring authenticity and believability to a character, it has become increasingly vital for actors to be aware of movement and physical acting. Stage and screen artists - including dancers, clowns, puppeteers, singers, and other performers who combine acting with their art - must now call upon physical presence, movement on stage, non-verbal interactions, and gestures to fully convey themselves. In Bringing the Body to the Stage and Screen, Annette Lust provides stage and screen artists with a program of physical and…    
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Book details

List price: $125.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/30/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 364
Size: 7.41" wide x 10.42" long x 1.08" tall
Weight: 2.024
Language: English

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Goals and Objectives for Learning to Move Expressively
Physical and Expressive Exercises
Definitions of Stage and Screen Movement, Mime, Pantomime, Corporeal Mime, Stage Combat, Physical Theatre, and Physical Improvisation
Conducting a Class and Practicing on One's Own
Basic Physical and Expressive Exercises
Utilizing Movement to Create a Visual Image
Subjects for Improvisation, Pantomimes, Nonverbal Acting, Physicalizing the Word, and Mime and Text
Improvisation
Pantomimes and Scenes for Nonverbal Acting
Physicalizing the Word, Mime and Text
Interviews and Essays
A Conversation with Bill Irwin on Mime and Acting
Interview with Bernie Sch�rch and Floriana Frassetto of the Swiss Mummenschanz Company
Interview with Geoff Hoyle on the Mime-Clown-Actor's Art
Etienne Decroux and the Contemporary Theatre: Decroux Corporeal Mime
Interview with Joanna Sherman and Michael McGuigan on the Bond Street Theatre
On Movement Training for the Actor
Dance and the Female Body
Interview with Liebe Wetzel on Movement in Puppetry
Images and Body Expression in Film; Gift of the Gods
Theatrical Dance
The Clown Conservatory Teaching of Professional Clowns in the Twenty-first Century
Movement for Puppeteers
Too Much Geniality: Notes and Quotes on a Reappraisal: Stage Versus Screen Acting
The Body of Theater
How Charlie Chaplin Spun Stagecraft into Cinematic Gold
Epilogue
Appendixes
Creating a Movement Training Program: Ten Sample Lessons
Resources for Mime Plays, Pantomimes, Themes for Improvisation, and Scenes with and without Words
Constructing a Mime Piece or Mimodrama
Schools and Movement Training Centers
Publications, Organizations, Festivals, and Resource Centers
Selected Videography and DVDs
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author