The Technique of Inner Action: The Soul of a Performer's WorkThis book focuses on the inner work of a performer. It takes up where Stanislavski's study of inner work left off and then expands inner action into a comprehensive discipline for developing an inner technique as precise and concrete as those use to develop external skills like voice and movement. Bill Bruehl argues that authentic emotions are expressed when performers focus on the internal aspirations of their character and on the flow of actions in the play. Mastery of inner action allows a performer to interpret a character with clarity, maximize creative potential, and insure authentic expression of emotion and spontaneity in performance. |
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... performance before an audience of sophisticated Western professionals . Not only that , she was even willing to let them call out surprise inner actions for her to improvise into her performance on the spot ! The experiment worked ...
... performance before an audience of sophisticated Western professionals . Not only that , she was even willing to let them call out surprise inner actions for her to improvise into her performance on the spot ! The experiment worked ...
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... performances keep changing but the audience doesn't know it keeps changing . People only know they have seen a fresh and vivid sequence of acting . The only people who know the performance texture differs in each performance and stays ...
... performances keep changing but the audience doesn't know it keeps changing . People only know they have seen a fresh and vivid sequence of acting . The only people who know the performance texture differs in each performance and stays ...
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... performance begins , we will move from feeling pressure to perform — which is natural — to the state of unself - conscious readiness before the performance begins . The secret lies in having a preparation that helps us to center ...
... performance begins , we will move from feeling pressure to perform — which is natural — to the state of unself - conscious readiness before the performance begins . The secret lies in having a preparation that helps us to center ...
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Theater: sound space, visual space International Federation for Theatre Research Limited preview - 2003 |