| Description |
xx, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Worlds of performance |
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Worlds of performance.
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| Contents |
1. General introduction: Between theory and practice / Phillip B. Zarrilli -- PART I: Theories of and meditations on acting -- 2. Introduction / Phillip B. Zarrilli -- 3. The actor's presence: Three phenomenal modes / Bert O. States -- 4. On acting and not-acting / Michael Kirby -- 5. "Just be you self": Logocentrism and difference in performance theory / Philip Auslander -- 6. The actor's emotions reconsidered: A psychological task-based perspective / Elly Konijn -- PART II: (Re)considering the body and training -- 7. Introduction / Phillip B. Zarrilli -- 8. An amulet made of memory: The significance of exercises in the actor's dramaturgy / Eugenio Barba -- 9. Meyerhold's biomechanics / Mel Gordon -- 10. Etienne Decroux's promethean mime /Deidre Sklar -- 11. Actor training in the neutral mask / Sears A. Eldredge and Hollis W. Huston -- 12. Bali and Grotowski: Some parallels in the training process / I. Wayan Lendra -- |
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13. Culture is the body / Tadashi Suzuki -- 14. My bodies: The performer in West Java / Kathy Foley -- 15. "On the edge of a breath, looking": Cultivating the actor's bodymind through Asian martial/meditation arts / Phillip B. Zarrilli -- 16. The Gardzienice Theatre Association of Poland / Paul Allain -- 17. Effector patterns of basic emotions: A psychophysiological method for training actors / Susana Bloch, Pedro Orthous and Guy Santibañez-H -- PART III: (Re)considering the actor in performance -- 18. Introduction / Phillip B. Zarrilli -- 19. Brecht and the contradictory actor / John Rouse -- 20. Dario Fo: The roar of the clown / Ron Jenkins -- 21. Forum theatre / Augusto Boal -- 22. Resisting the "organic": A feminist actor's approach / Lauren Love -- 23. Rachel Rosenthal creating her selves / Eelka Lampe -- 24. Task and vision: Willem Dafoe in LSD / Philip Auslander -- 25. David Warrilow: Creating symbol and cypher / Laurie Lassiter -- |
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26. Robert Wilson and the actor: Performing in "Danton's Death" / Ellen Halperin-Royer -- 27. Anna Deavere Smith : Part 1: The word becomes you: an interview by Carol Martin ; Part 2: Acting as incorporation / Richard Schechner |
| Summary |
This is a wide-ranging collection of theories on acting, ideas about body and training, and statements about the actor in performance. It includes discussions by or about major figures who have shaped theories and practices of acting and performance fromthe late 19th century to the present |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1995 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-388) and index |
| Notes |
Electronic reproduction. ; |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Subject |
Acting.
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| Author |
Zarrilli, Phillip B., 1947- editor
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MyiLibrary.
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| LC no. |
2002028460 |
| ISBN |
041526300X (paperback) |
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0415262992 (hardback) |
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