Mythic Imagination And The Actor

Author : Marissa Chibás
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000411874

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Mythic Imagination and the Actor by Marissa Chibás Pdf

In Mythic Imagination and the Actor, Marissa Chibás draws on over three decades of experience as a Latinx actor, writer, filmmaker, and teacher to offer an approach to acting that embraces collective imagination, archetypal work, and the mythic. The book begins with a comparative analysis between method acting and mythic acting, encouraging actors to push past the limits of singular life experience and move to a realm where imagination and metaphor thrive. In the context of mythic acting, the book explores awareness work, solo performance creation, the power of archetypes, character building exercises, creating a body/text connection, and how to be the detective of your own process. Through this inclusive guide for a new age of diverse performers traversing gender, ability, culture, and race, readers are able to move beyond their limits to a deep engagement with the infinite possibilities of rich imagination. The final chapter empowers and motivates artists to live healthfully within the practice and create a personal artistic vision plan. Written for actors and students of acting, American Drama, and film and theatre studies, Mythic Imagination and the Actor provides practical exercises and prompts to unlock and interpret an actor’s deepest creative sources.

Author : Marissa Chibas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Acting
ISBN : 0367715511

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Mythic Imagination and the Actor by Marissa Chibas Pdf

In Mythic Imagination and the Actor, Marissa Chibás draws on over three decades of experience as a Latinx actor, writer, filmmaker, and teacher to offer an approach to acting that embraces collective imagination, archetypal work, and the mythic. The book begins with a comparative analysis between method acting and mythic acting, encouraging actors to push past the limits of singular life experience and move to a realm where imagination and metaphor thrive. In the context of mythic acting, the book explores awareness work, solo performance creation, the power of archetypes, character building exercises, creating a body/text connection, and how to be the detective of your own process. Through this inclusive guide for a new age of diverse performers traversing gender, ability, culture, and race, readers are able to move beyond their limits to a deep engagement with the infinite possibilities of rich imagination. The final chapter empowers and motivates artists to live healthfully within the practice and create a personal artistic vision plan. Written for actors and students of acting, American Drama, and film and theatre studies, Mythic Imagination and the Actor provides practical exercises and prompts to unlock and interpret an actor's deepest creative sources.

Author : Bella Merlin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781003808794

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Acting by Bella Merlin Pdf

Acting: The Basics 3rd Edition is a dynamic response to recent societal and entertainment industry changes, focusing on inclusion, diversity and equity, and the actor's trajectory from training to rehearsal to performance on stage and screen, with hands-on tools and global perspectives. The book offers vital ways of building a practical acting toolkit, through breath, body, voice, emotions, imagination and spirit. We begin with a socio-cultural look at actor as magician, storyteller, healer and social changer. Throughout, there are insights from Black, Indigenous, First Nations, South/East Asian, intercultural and feminist practitioners, together with methods focusing on disability and accessibility, intimacy directives, mindfulness and intersectionality. Key 'canonical' figures still feature (e.g., Stanislavsky, Meisner, Brecht and Suzuki) with re-visioned perspective. Scattered throughout are post-COVID insights, plus expanded sections on screen acting (including self-tapes) and Shakespeare. This book is useful for beginner or expert, as it's always helpful getting back to basics. Because the author is both an actor and an actor trainer, the tools are steeped in user-friendly application. At the same time, transferable skills (e.g., dynamic listening and empathy) are shown as relevant to everyone. With a glossary of terms and useful online suggestions (including blogs, videos and podcasts), this is ideal for anyone learn anew about the practice and history of acting, or to take their acting and teaching into new terrain.

Author : Cynthia Santos DeCure,Micha Espinosa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000847963

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Latinx Actor Training by Cynthia Santos DeCure,Micha Espinosa Pdf

Latinx Actor Training presents essays and pioneering research from leading Latinx practitioners and scholars in the United States to examine the history and future of Latino/a/x/e actor training practices and approaches. Born out of the urgent need to address the inequities in academia and the industry as Latinx representation on stage and screen remains disproportionately low despite population growth; this book seeks to reimagine and restructure the practice of actor training by inviting deep investigation into heritage and identity practices. Latinx Actor Training features contributions covering current and historical acting methodologies, principles, and training, explorations of linguistic identity, casting considerations, and culturally inclusive practices that aim to empower a new generation of Latinx actors and to assist the educators who are entrusted with their training. This book is dedicated to creating career success and championing positive narratives to combat pervasive and damaging stereotypes. Latinx Actor Training offers culturally inclusive pedagogies that will be invaluable for students, practitioners, and scholars interested in the intersections of Latinx herencia (heritage), identity, and actor training.

Author : Siiri Scott,Jay Paul Skelton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000937268

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Stanislavsky and Race by Siiri Scott,Jay Paul Skelton Pdf

Stanislavsky and Race is the first book to explore the role that Konstantin Stanislavsky’s “system” and its legacies can play in building, troubling and illuminating today’s anti-racist theatre practices. This collection of essays from leading figures in the field of actor training stands not only as a resource for a new area of academic enquiry, but also for students, actors, directors, teachers and academics who are engaged in making inclusive contemporary theatre. In seeking to dismantle the dogma that surrounds much actor training and replace it with a culturally competent approach that will benefit our entire community, the “system” is approached from a range of perspectives featuring the research, reflections and provocations of 20 different international artists interrogating Stanislavsky’s approach through the lens of race, place and identity. Stanislavsky and ... is a series of multi-perspectival collections that bring the enduring legacy of Stanislavskian actor training into the spotlight of contemporary performance culture, making them ideal for students, teachers and scholars of acting, actor training and directing.

Author : Noe Montez,Olga Sanchez Saltveit
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781003848127

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The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance by Noe Montez,Olga Sanchez Saltveit Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance traces how manifestations of Latine self-determination in contemporary US theatre and performance practices affirm the value of Latine life in a theatrical culture that has a legacy of misrepresentation and erasure. This collection draws on fifty interdisciplinary contributions written by some of the leading Latine theatre and performance scholars and practitioners in the United States to highlight evolving and recurring strategies of world making, activism, and resistance taken by Latine culture makers to gain political agency on and off the stage. The project reveals the continued growth of Latine theatre and performance through chapters covering but not limited to playwriting, casting practices, representation, training, wrestling with anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity, theatre for young audiences, community empowerment, and the market forces that govern the US theatre industry. This book enters conversations in performance studies, ethnic studies, American studies, and Latina/e/o/x studies by taking up performance scholar Diana Taylor’s call to consider the ways that “embodied and performed acts generate, record, and transmit knowledge.” This collection is an essential resource for students, scholars, and theatremakers seeking to explore, understand, and advance the huge range and significance of Latine performance.

Author : Toby Cole,Helen Krich Chinoy
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 051788478X

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Actors on Acting by Toby Cole,Helen Krich Chinoy Pdf

Redesigned with a contemporary new cover, this is a comprehensive consideration of all aspects of the actor's art and craft, as told by the theater's greatest practitioners, from ancient Greece to the 20th century.

Author : Simon Trussler,Clive Barker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521535891

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New Theatre Quarterly 74: Volume 19, Part 2 by Simon Trussler,Clive Barker Pdf

New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. Articles in volume 74 include: Joan Littlewood's Key to Creativity: 'Go on Stage to Fail'; Grandfathers and Orphans: the Family Saga of European Theatre; Decoding Myths in the Nepalese Festival of Indra Jatra; Theatre in Education in Britain: Current Practice and Future Potential; From Object to Subject: the Israeli Theatre of the Battered Women; 'The Spirits Wouldn't Let Me Be Anything Else': Shamanic Dimensions in Theatre Practice Today; The Contaminated Audience: Researching Amateur Theatre in Wales before 1939.

Author : Janet Sonenberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0878301666

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Dreamwork for Actors by Janet Sonenberg Pdf

Offers a new technique for exploring the imagination for actors.

Author : Joseph Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0060966106

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Mythic Imagination by Joseph Campbell Pdf

Author : Jean Benedetti
Publisher : Methuen Drama
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015061432897

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The Art of the Actor by Jean Benedetti Pdf

"The Art of the Actor is designed as a working manual for students at all levels. It traces the evolution in the theories of the actor's art from classical times to the present day, highlighting the persistence of certain key ideas over a period of 2500 years." "With extensive extracts from the writings of all the principal theorists and practitioners, from Aristotle through to Grotowski, Professor Benedetti provides a lucid commentary and comprehensive survey that will take its place as an indispensable sourcebook and guide to the art of the actor."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Nicola Buck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578655799

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Imagination and the Actor by Nicola Buck Pdf

An exploration of imagination, truth and character development in fifty original monologues for professional Actors, infused with colorful characters, each confronting a deeper sense of self, their relationships with others and the world around them. Includes an introduction to key archetypes as a means to build character, the IPA, and Intercostal Diaphragmatic Breathing.

Author : Elizabeth Hess
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781349951062

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Acting and Being by Elizabeth Hess Pdf

In this book, educator-actor-playwright-director Elizabeth Hess offers systematic and original explorations in performance technique. This hybrid approach is a fusion of physical theater modalities culled from Western practices (Psycho-physical actions, Viewpoints) Eastern practices (Butoh, Kundalini yoga) and related performance disciplines (Mask, Puppetry). Behavioral, physiological and psychological ‘states of being’ are engaged to unlock impulses, access experience and enlarge the imagination. Through individual, partnered and collective explorations, actors uncover a character’s essence and level of consciousness, their energy center and body language, and their archetype and relationship to universal themes. Magic (to pretend, as if), Metaphor (to compare, as like) and Myth (to pattern after, as in) provide the foundation for generating transformative, empathetic and expansive artistic expression. Explorations can be adapted to character work, scene study and production, including original/devised work and established text, to illuminate singular and surprising work through collaborative creativity that is inventive, inclusive and alive.

Author : Jane Gilmer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004449428

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The Alchemical Actor by Jane Gilmer Pdf

The Alchemical Actor – Performing the Great Work: Imagining Alchemical Theatre offers an imagination for an alchemical theatre inspired by the directives of Antonin Artaud.

Author : David Ian Rabey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317875390

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English Drama Since 1940 by David Ian Rabey Pdf

English Drama Since 1940 considers the bids of successive post-war dramatists to find language and images of remorseless disclosure, appropriate to the public manifestation of sensed crisis and the interrogation of the ideal of renewal. This book introduces the period and its discourse whilst redefining them, to give proper consideration to developments of themes, styles, concerns and contexts from the 80s to the present. The book offers succinct and analytical introductions to the work of 60 dramatists, whilst arguing for (re)appraisal of many dates critical perspectives, in order to stimulate further argument in the field.