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Laban's Efforts in Action: A Movement Handbook for Actors with Online Video Resources

Autor Vanessa Ewan, Kate Sagovsky
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 oct 2018
As an actor, awareness of your movement is the key to transformation. By making deliberate physical choices, you can fully and articulately embody different ways of being: you can become someone or something else. Laban's Efforts give you a way of identifying and making these choices. Working with them helps the actor to create wholly present and physically ambitious performances. This book outlines Ewan's practical process, which allows the actor to understand their own movement and that of others by exploring one key part of Laban's work: the 'Efforts of Action Drive'. This complete, stage-by-stage, working process has been developed through more than thirty years of work with actors in the studio. Clear instructions for practical exercises are woven throughout the book, as well as exciting ways to apply the work in rehearsal, performance and on set. This allows the actor to learn and apply Laban's Efforts for themselves. Full video and audio resources allow the reader to experience the practical work in action.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472533241
ISBN-10: 1472533240
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Contains a 30-45-minute video with short, easily navigable clips of actors undertaking the creative processes outlined in the text, and footage of everyday movement illustrating certain key concepts

Notă biografică

Vanessa Ewan is Senior Lecturer on the three-year acting course and Co-Course Leader of the MA in Movement: Directing and Teaching at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK.Kate Sagovsky works as a theatre practitioner, specialising in movement-based work and cross-art-form performance, and is the artistic director of Moving Dust theatre company.

Cuprins

INTRODUCTION Laban and His WorkLaban's Work on EffortApproaching the EffortsAbout this BookHow to Use this Book Part A: THE BIGGER PICTURE CHAPTER ONE: MOVEMENT AND THE ACTOR What is Movement?What is Effort?What is Action?Laban's Efforts and the Actor CHAPTER TWO: UNLOCKING MOVEMENT POTENTIAL The Body in SpaceBasic LocomotionThe Body as Orchestra Part B: BUILDING BLOCKS CHAPTER THREE: WEIGHT, TIME, SPACE The Motion FactorsExamining Weight, Time, and Space CHAPTER FOUR: EMBODYING THE MOTION FACTORS WeightTimeSpaceDiscovering the Eight Basic Efforts Part C: DISCOVERING THE EFFORTS CHAPTER FIVE: ABOUT THE PROCESS Process Overview Basic Philosophies CHAPTER SIX (a): THE PROCESS WITH FLOATINGPreparationMeeting the EffortMapping the EffortThe Effort as CodeA Journey (Guided Improvisation)Efforts in the World CHAPTER SIX (b): THE OTHER SEVEN EFFORTS DabbingWringingThrustingPressingFlickingSlashingGliding Part D: THE EFFORTS AT PLAY CHAPTER SEVEN: THE EIGHT EFFORT ARCHETYPES What is an Effort Archetype?Embodying the Eight Effort ArchetypesApplying the Eight Effort ArchetypesObserving the Eight Effort Archetypes CHAPTER EIGHT: THE EFFORT WEAVE What is an Effort Weave?Effort Weave PreparationBasic Effort WeaveInternalised Effort WeavesEffort Weaves with An Agenda CHAPTER NINE: EFFORT DUOS What is an Effort Duo?Discovering Effort DuosEmbodying Effort DuosEffort EquationCreating Effort Equations Part E: APPLYING THE EFFORTS CHAPTER TEN: ADVANCED EXPLORATIONS Uniting Efforts and Text 'Giving Birth': Embodied Storytelling Creating a Precise Physical Score 'Cloning': Discovering Characters'Gallery-Glide': Unlocking Text Manifesting Thoughts and Feelings: Subtext in Action'Bottling': Mapping Bottled Emotions CHAPTER ELEVEN: EFFORTS IN REHEARSAL Preparation Creating CharacterThe World of the Play Advanced ObservationFinal Reflections APPENDICES APPENDIX A: NOTES ON PROCESS The Role of FlowSelf-ReflectionControlWorking with GesturesWorking with VocalisationUsing MusicThe Game of LifeRelating to Constraints APPENDIX B: A NOTE ON WORD CHOICES APPENDIX C: FOCUSING THE WORK FOR THE ACTOR APPENDIX D: MUSIC SUGGESTIONS GLOSSARYBIBLIOGRAPHYLIST OF VIDEO RESOURCESABOUT THE AUTHORSINDEX

Recenzii

This is a fresh and invigorating new addition to the Laban for Actors family of publications. It's just like being in the studio with Vanessa - with practical how-to exercises and guided explorations in Effort, this book will be invaluable for all actors and teachers of movement for actors
Vanessa Ewan's work with Laban and the Efforts, as you will find in this inspired book, provides performers with an incredibly fertile foundation from which to create. She has found an astoundingly practical way of applying Laban's work to the quest of being a fully embodied actor. You will find tools in this book that will open door after door to your own creativity and awaken you to the endless possibility of what you can create on stage and on screen.