Breathing, Movement, ExplorationApplause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2001 - 247 pages (Applause Books). Breathing, Movement, Exploration is a groundbreaking approach to how to use your body. Barbara Sellers-Young combines body mechanics and eastern and western philosophy to create a new visceral awareness of the performance process. Its simple, step-by-step structure enables the reader to learn the concepts of Laban and Stanislavski while exploring eastern ideas of breath and energy. Breathing, Movement, Exploration is a useful blueprint for how to use your body on stage. It speaks to professionals as well as anyone fascinated by the inner-process of an actor's training or to gain cognitive and physical insight into one's own self. |
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Awareness | 1 |
Energy Metaphor Action | 3 |
Personal Inventory | 15 |
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actor Alexander Technique allow ankles archetype arms associated balance become aware begin body attitude body scan body's chakra character character's chest circle clavicle combination concentration Constantin Stanislavski contraction create dantian describe develop discover dynamic alignment effort qualities emotional center energy energy qualities environment exercise exhalation expand experience exploration Exploration 32 external eyes feel feet Figure floor focus focusing foot front fuse gesture gravity hands head hip joint imagery imagination incorporate increase inhalation initiate integration interaction internal Journal kinesthetic knees legs lumbar metaphor method Moshe Feldenkrais movement muscle groups muscles neutral observation partner pelvic floor pelvis person phrasing physical actions position posture Potential images proprioceptive pull rehearsal relationship relaxed release Repeat sensory sensory system side sitting social mask sound space specific spinal spine Stanislavski sternum tail bone technique tion torso upper verbs vertebrae visual walk yin and yang