Five Approaches To Acting

Author : David Kaplan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1601821808

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Five Approaches to Acting by David Kaplan Pdf

The Collected Series: Five Approaches to Acting by David Kaplan is the complete collection of his five approaches to acting with an additional section that deals with comparing, choosing and combing the different approaches. This is an excellent acting textbook that deals with theory and practice for both beginning and advanced actors. David Kaplan's The Collected Series: Five Approaches to Acting contains his five approaches to acting: identifying tasks, playing episodes, building images, learning the world of the play, and telling a story. Each approach has its own definition of what it means to act, what it means to act well, what it means to be a character in a performance on stage, and, by extension, what it means to be a person in ?real? life. Each approach covers history, theory and examples of its practice.Anyone interested in the study of acting will instantly realize that The Collected Series: Five Approaches to Acting is a comprehenive approach to studying acting. As David Kaplan explains, "If we can agree that acting involves the theory and practice of human relationships ? not just the relationships of actors with actors, but of actors with audiences ? then the study of acting merits attention from anyone interested in behavior, character, and a relationship to the world from which ideas about such things evolve.'

Author : David Kaplan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1601821832

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Building Images by David Kaplan Pdf

Building Images, Part Three in the Five Approaches to Acting Series by David Kaplan is the third part in the Five Approaches to Acting Series. By popular demand of instructors and students alike, all five of David Kaplan's approaches to acting have been unbundled into separate acting textbooks to allow instructors to pick and choose the approaches that best fit their methodology of teaching acting. The source of an actor?s imagery may be different, but the techniques for applying them in rehearsal and performance are remarkably similar. Building Images, Part Three includes practical techniques for an actor to build imagery ? external and internal ? in rehearsal. Building Images, Part Three offers strategies for text analysis based on imagery, and offers strategies for maintaining and deepening imagery in performance. Building Images, Part Three gives examples in film and from the history of acting. It separates ?the Method? from Stanislavsky?s System and explains why an actor would want to use one, or neither.All five of David Kaplan's approaches to acting are available together with an additional part that deals with comparing, choosing and combing the different approaches in his The Collected Series: Five Approaches to Acting. This is an excellent acting textbook that deals with theory and practice for both beginning and seasoned actors.

Author : David Kaplan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Acting
ISBN : 0970248776

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Five Approaches to Acting by David Kaplan Pdf

Author : David Kaplan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1601821824

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Playing Episodes by David Kaplan Pdf

Playing Episodes, Part Two in the Five Approaches to Acting Series includes a useful explanation of terms, instruction in applying techniques in rehearsal and performance, practical classroom exercises, detailed script analysis, the history and theory behind the approach, as well as inspiring examples to be seen on film.All five of David Kaplan's approaches to acting are available together with an additional part that deals with comparing, choosing and combing the different approaches in his The Collected Series: Five Approaches to Acting. This is an excellent acting textbook that deals with theory and practice for both beginning and seasoned actors.

Author : David Kaplan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UVA:X004628283

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Five Approaches to Acting by David Kaplan Pdf

Author : David Kaplan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1601821816

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Getting to the Task by David Kaplan Pdf

Getting to the Task, Part One includes practical exercises for class and rehearsals, techniques for analyzing a text for tasks, techniques for maintaining and deepening performances, examples from film to study, and a useful working vocabulary. It explains how other approaches might expand Stanislavsky?s vision. Getting to the Task, Part One separates Stanislavsky from his inaccurate (and widely influential) translators and interpreters in America. Getting to the Task, Part One separates The System from ?The Method? ? itself the subject of Building Images, Part Three in the Five Approaches to Acting Series. All five of David Kaplan's approaches to acting are available together with an additional part that deals with comparing, choosing and combing the different approaches in his The Collected Series: Five Approaches to Acting. This is an excellent acting textbook that deals with theory and practice for both beginning and seasoned actors.

Author : David Kaplan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1601821859

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Telling a Story by David Kaplan Pdf

Telling a Story, Part Five in the Five Approaches to Acting Series offers practical techniques for analyzing texts and performing stories within the context of a play, whether written by Sam Shepard, Tennessee Williams the ancient Greeks, or Shakespeare. Telling a Story suggests strategies for actors to switch between performance and story-telling in their approach to any role.Telling a Story, Part Five in the Five Approaches to Acting Series is a chance to learn true witchcraft: the casting of a spell on audience members so that they see what isn?t there. More, the telling of a tale can reveal the occult: what takes place in the mind of the speaker. Shakespeare?s soliloquies offer an actor special opportunities to reveal the processes of thought, and there is a separate chapter in Telling a Story, Part Five in the Five Approaches to Acting Series about ways to prepare and perform soliloquies from Shakespeare?s plays. Like Mae West?s sultry recitation of nursery rhymes, Romeo?s bashful recitation of Juliet?s charms works from the principle that it?s not what you say, it?s how you say it ? and what happens to you while you say it. All five of David Kaplan's approaches to acting are available together with an additional part that deals with comparing, choosing and combing the different approaches in his The Collected Series: Five Approaches to Acting. This is an excellent acting textbook that deals with theory and practice for both beginning and seasoned actors.

Author : David Kaplan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1601821840

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Inhabiting the World of the Play by David Kaplan Pdf

Inhabiting the World of the Play, Part Four lays out a ten part plan for actors to analyze a play, and ways to create individual roles within plays. Inhabiting the World of the Play, Part Four gives practical applications in rehearsal and performance, explains how to apply a world of the play analysis to a text, and points actors towards available examples in film. A world of the play analysis is especially useful for plays that require heightened behavior: Shakespeare, Genet, Ionesco, for example, but also its an approach very useful for ?realistic? plays. You think Neil Simon? characters have the same rules in life or onstage as Tennessee Williams? characters? Think again.All five of David Kaplan's approaches to acting are available together with an additional part that deals with comparing, choosing and combing the different approaches in his The Collected Series: Five Approaches to Acting. This is an excellent acting textbook that deals with theory and practice for both beginning and seasoned actors.

Author : Moni Yakim
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1557831610

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Creating a Character by Moni Yakim Pdf

Actor and mime artist Moni Yakim reveals his time-tested techniques and step-by-step exercises for physically evoking a character. Beginning with a chapter on looking inward, Yakim gives exercises on discovering aspects of one's own character. Then he teaches the actor how to identify with qualities outside the self. Finally, he shows how to apply these techniques to 12 classical theatrical roles.

Author : Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441103819

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Approaches to Acting by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe Pdf

For centuries the theatre has been one of the major forms of art. How did acting, and its institutionalization in the theatre, begin in the first place? In some cultures complex stories relate the origin of acting and the theatre. And over time, approaches to acting have changed considerably. In the West, until the end of the 19th century, those changes occurred within the realm of acting itself, focusing on the question of whether acting should be 'natural' or 'formal.' Approaches to acting were closely related to the trends in culture at large. Acting became more and more professional and sophisticated as philosophical theories developed and knowledge in the human sciences increased. In the 20th century, the director was established as the most important force in the theater--able to lead actors to pinnacles of their art which they could not have achieved on their own. Approaches to acting in non-Western cultures follow quite different patterns. This book provides a clear overview of different approaches to acting, both historical and contemporary, Western and non-Western, and concludes with a challenge to the future of the art.

Author : Sharrell Luckett,Tia M. Shaffer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317441229

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Black Acting Methods by Sharrell Luckett,Tia M. Shaffer Pdf

Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with. A wealth of contributions from directors, scholars and actor trainers address afrocentric processes and aesthetics, and interviews with key figures in Black American theatre illuminate their methods. This ground-breaking collection is an essential resource for teachers, students, actors and directors seeking to reclaim, reaffirm or even redefine the role and contributions of Black culture in theatre arts.

Author : Emmanuelle Chaulet
Publisher : A Balancing Act E. Chaulet
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Acting
ISBN : 9780979906305

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A Balancing Act by Emmanuelle Chaulet Pdf

A holistic approach to acting. This book presents acting as a mind, body and spirit practice and actors as emotional athletes, spiritual stuntmen and stuntwomen exposed to a constant roller coaster of emotions. Going beyond where Michael Chekhov left off, it offers new acting techniques using discoveries from holistic and energy healing modalities. Answering an urgent -yet never addressed-need, this book offers invaluable tools to heal post-performance stress disorder and cutting edge information about recovering your Highest Creative Self, the essence of your character, and true emotional balance. Lisa Dalton, Co-founder, International Michael Chekhov Association, Award-Winning Actor/Producer/Director and Co-founder and Certifying Board, National Michael Chekhov Association wrote the Foreword. She says: "It is rare to find a subject that urgently needs to be discussed and about which too little is written. The need to train the entire being of the performing artist is just such a subject. Emmanuelle Chaulet's A Balancing Act is a godsend to performing artists of any sort. Knowing how to Energize allows us to endure and even thrive during the rise and fall, the constant state of transformation, the juggling of feelings, styles, jobs, and colleagues while maintaining an even keel." "Truly some of the freshest and most innovative 21st century contributions to the art of acting." says Mel Shrawder NYC AEA/SAG actor, Former Head of Performance, University of Miami, and faculty at the Michael Chekhov Acting Studio in NYC.

Author : Sanford Meisner,Dennis Longwell
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780307830630

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Sanford Meisner on Acting by Sanford Meisner,Dennis Longwell Pdf

Sanford Meisner was one of the best known and beloved teachers of acting in the country. This book follows one of his acting classes for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from contemporary American plays. Written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, it is essential reading for beginning and professional actors alike. Throughout these pages Meisner is a delight—always empathizing with his students and urging them onward, provoking emotion, laughter, and growing technical mastery from his charges. With an introduction by Sydney Pollack, director of Out of Africa and Tootsie, who worked with Meisner for five years. "This book should be read by anyone who wants to act or even appreciate what acting involves. Like Meisner's way of teaching, it is the straight goods."—Arthur Miller "If there is a key to good acting, this one is it, above all others. Actors, young and not so young, will find inspiration and excitement in this book."—Gregory Peck

Author : John Gillett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408147740

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Acting on Impulse: reclaiming the Stanislavski approach by John Gillett Pdf

"A manual full of enabling, easing exercises - it will enable you to analyse any scene. The cry of the actor at sea `I don't know what I'm doing' should, with this book, become a thing of the past' Sam West "I'd recommend this book to anyone wanting an introduction to Stanislavksi or Michael Chekhov or acting in general." Matt Peover, LAMDA trainer and theatre director. "Contains all the important things that need to be said about learning to act...in an extremely logical and sensible manner." Simon Dunmore, Editor Actor's Yearbook An inspiring and technically thorough practical book for actors that sets down a systematic and coherent process for organic (from the `inside-out'/experienced emotion) acting. The author offers a step-by-step, Stanislavski-based approach to text, role and performance to be used in everyday work and gathers together in one volume, the essential tools that serve to recreate human experience. A nuts-and-bolts practical guide with exercises for the actor to work through sequentially. Contains a Foreword by Sam West. John Gillett builds on his experience of teaching at drama school level as well as 30 years of acting. For those acting students and professional actors who have become mystified and frustrated with trying to understand Stanislavski's approach, this book is an accessible guide to inspire a truly real and audience-captivating performance.

Author : Jeff Seymour
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692210253

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The Real Life Actor by Jeff Seymour Pdf

There is a sense that permeates most acting classes which promotes the idea that acting is hard and you need to do a bunch of traditional steps if you're ever going to get anywhere. The flame of this concept is kept lit for two reasons. One is tradition. Successful actors and teachers in our theatrical history supposedly believed in or espoused such ideas and two; it is easier for teachers and actors to follow a path that is well worn. Actors feel intimidated to challenge the ideas and teachings of past masters. But isn't that exactly how every field of endeavor evolves? Think of where we'd be in science or medicine or sports if no one questioned past methods or tried to discover new ones. This book will show you an approach that is direct and to the point, an approach that will be far easier to remember and utilize. We'll use real life. We call it acting only because people are watching. "If you're an actor, this book will restore your sanity." Steven Pressfield, Author: The War of Art, Turning Pro, The Legend of Bagger Vance