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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| My Journey | |
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| Rudolf von Laban | |
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| Irmgard Bartenieff | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| Laban Basics | |
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| Anatomy Illustrations | |
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| Front Body | |
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| Back Body | |
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| Spine and Pelvic Bowl | |
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| Diaphragm and Intercostal Muscles | |
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| Stomach Muscles: Transverse Abdominis, Internal & External Obliques, Rectus Abdominis | |
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| Psoas, Rhomboids, Quadratus Lumborum | |
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| Hyoid Bone, Thyroid Cartilage, Masseter Muscle | |
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| Anatomy for Speech: Articulators | |
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| Vocal Folds, Mouth | |
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| Breath: Inspiration for Creative Activity | |
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| Breathing through the Still Shape Forms | |
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| From Shape to Sound | |
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| Bartenieff Fundamentals: Fitness that Supports the Actor | |
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| Detailed Explorations for Breath Support | |
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| Relationship of the Intercostal and Abdominal Muscles to the Breath | |
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| Intercostal Strength and Ease | |
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| The Role of the Back in Breath Support | |
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| Neutral Dynamic Alignment: Radiating Your Physical Presence | |
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| Resonance and Center Pitch: Revealing Your Vocal Presence | |
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| Expanding Your Vocal Range | |
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| Expressive Use of Resonance and Center Pitch | |
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| Speech Shape: Fitness for the Actor's Articulators | |
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| Vowels and Diphthongs | |
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| Mouth-Shapes: Muscular Activity for the Articulators | |
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| Sound-Shapes | |
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| The Actor Revealed through Modes of Shape Change | |
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| Exercises for Shape Flow, Spoke-like Directional, Arc-like Directional, and Carving | |
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| Floor Patterns | |
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| Filling Space: Exploring Your Physical and Vocal Kinesphere | |
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| Central, Peripheral, and Transverse Pathways (CPT) | |
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| Consonants: Articulation and Rhythmic Explorations | |
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| More Muscular Activity for the Articulators | |
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| Effort Life of Voice and Movement | |
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| Experiments with Effort | |
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| Flow | |
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| Weight | |
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| Time | |
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| Space | |
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| Exercises for Exploring the Effort Elements | |
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| Effort Life and Precise Articulation | |
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| Short Vowels | |
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| More Diphthongs | |
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| Triphthongs | |
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| Create Your Own Culture of Sound | |
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| Back to the Beginning | |
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| Revealing Your State of Mind | |
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| States | |
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| Exercises for Exploring the States | |
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| Drives: Expressing Heightened Moments | |
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| Action Drives | |
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| Passion Drives | |
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| Vision Drives | |
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| Spell Drives | |
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| Exercises for Exploring the Drives in Body and Voice | |
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| Diction with Drives | |
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| Scene Work | |
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| Space Harmony for Voice, Speech, and Movement | |
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| Dimensions and Planes | |
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| Body and Voice Meet Space | |
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| Exploring the Platonic Solids | |
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| Laban's Scales | |
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| Group Exploration with an Emphasis on Space | |
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| Experimentations in Transformation | |
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| Final Thoughts | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |