Mask Improvisation for Actor Training & Performance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mask Improvisation for Actor Training & Performance write by Sears A. Eldredge. This book was released on 1996. Mask Improvisation for Actor Training & Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Because mask improvisation work is relatively new in American theater training, this book is designed not only to acquaint readers with the theory of mask improvisation but to instruct them in the techniques of method as well. Featuring dozens of improvisational exercises in the innovative spirit of Viola Spolin, and supplemented with practical appendices on mask design and construction, forms and checklists, and other classroom materials, this book is an invaluable tool for teacher and student alike, as well as compelling reading for anyone interested in acquiring a deeper understanding of masks as agents of transformation, creativity, and performance.
Improvisation in Drama, Theatre and Performance
Improvisation in Drama, Theatre and Performance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Improvisation in Drama, Theatre and Performance write by Anthony Frost. This book was released on 2015-10-26. Improvisation in Drama, Theatre and Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Improvisation is a tool for many things: performance training, rehearsal practice, playwriting, therapeutic interaction and somatic discovery. This book opens up the significance of improvisation across cultures, histories and ways of performing our life, offering key insights into the what, the how and the why of performance. It traces the origins of improvisation and its influences, both as a social and political phenomenon and its position in performance training. Including history, theory and practice, this new edition encompasses Theatre and performance studies as well as drama, acknowledging the rapid reconfiguration of these fields in recent years. Its coverage also now extends to improvisation in the USA, cinema, LARPing, street events and the improvising audience, while also looking at improv's relationship to stand-up comedy, jazz, poetry and free movement practices. With an index of exercises and an extensive bibliography, this book is indispensable to students of improvisation.
Acting Through Mask
Acting Through Mask - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Acting Through Mask write by David Griffiths. This book was released on 1998. Acting Through Mask available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the first volume of his "Mask: A Release of Acting Resources" David Griffiths examines the present state of actor-training, and surveys past experiments and styles developed by Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Grotowski and Brecht. He recommends a way in which the standards of performance skills in theatre may parallel those already established in other performing arts such as music and dance. The author's philosophy as a theatre practitioner is the mask and here he explains the special skills required to animate it, helping the reader by extensive and cogent use of his own illustrations.
The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners
The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners write by Franc Chamberlain. This book was released on 2020-08-16. The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks. Each of the chapters is written by an expert on a particular figure, from Stanislavsky and Brecht to Laban and Decroux, and places their work in its social and historical context. Summaries and analyses of their key productions indicate how each practitioner's theoretical approaches to performance and the performer were manifested in practice. All 22 practitioners from the original series are represented, with this volume covering those born before the end of the First World War. This is the definitive first step for students, scholars and practitioners hoping to acquaint themselves with the leading names in performance, or deepen their knowledge of these seminal figures.
The Routledge Companion to Studio Performance Practice
The Routledge Companion to Studio Performance Practice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Companion to Studio Performance Practice write by Franc Chamberlain. This book was released on 2021-11-29. The Routledge Companion to Studio Performance Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Routledge Companion to Studio Performance Practice is a unique, indispensable guide to the training methods of the world’s key theatre practitioners. Compiling the practical work outlined in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks, each set of exercises has been edited and contextualised by an expert in that particular approach. Each chapter provides a taster of one practitioner’s work, answering the same key questions: ‘How did this artist work? How can I begin to put my understanding of this to practical use?’ Newly written chapter introductions put the exercises in context, explaining how they fit into the wider methods and philosophy of the practitioner in question. All 21 volumes in the original series are represented in this volume.
