Through the Body: A Practical Guide to Physical TheatreIn Through the Body, Dymphna Callery introduces the reader to the principles behind the work of key practitioners of 20th-century theater including Artaud, Grotowski, Brook and Lecoq. She offers exercises that turn their theories into practice and explore their principles in action. |
Contents
Awareness | |
Neutrality | |
UNMASKING THE ACTOR | |
The Body | |
The body in space | |
Complicité | |
THE SENTIENT BODY | |
Starting points and process | |
Image and gesture | |
Structuring text | |
APPENDIX | |
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