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Notes from an Odin actress [electronic resource] : stones of water / Julia Varley

Author
Varley, Julia, 1954-
Uniform Title
Pietre d'acqua. English
Additional Titles
Stones of water
Published
New York, NY : Routledge, 2010.
Physical Description
xiv, 188 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
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Contents
Introduction -- Dancing history. First steps -- Becoming an actress -- Odin Teatret -- Teachers -- The dramaturgy of the actress -- Personal terminology. The echo of silence -- Stage presence -- Pursuing oppositions -- Rodin's torsos -- Precision and decision: the whole body -- Precision and decision: the whole voice -- Training. Aspects of training -- My own training -- The purpose of training -- Reduction -- Improvisation and composition. The creation of material -- Stimuli, strategies and procedures -- Repetition, memory, fixing -- Before, during and after improvisation -- Elaboration: from the actress's point of view -- Elaboration: from the director's point of view -- Score and subscore. A useful but wrong word -- The paper song -- Thought -- The subscore of creation -- Chaotic order -- The subscore of repetition -- The subscore of performance -- Text and subtext. Textual interpretation -- Textual analysis -- Physical actions as subtext -- Vocal actions as subtext -- Melodies and music as subtext -- The character. Identities -- Mr Peanut -- Do; a musica -- Dramaturgy according to Daedalus -- The puppet character -- The director -- Meeting a director -- Working with a director -- The surgeon and the mountaineer -- The peasant and the cook -- The performance. Replica and difference -- Faces, words, landscapes.
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9780415586283 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780415586290 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780203847046 (e-book)
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