Movement training for actors / Jackie Snow

Author:: Snow, Jackie
Published:: London : Methuen Drama, 2012.
Physical Description:: xvi, 192 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 1 videodisc
Additional Creators:: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Great Britain)

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Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 The universal state -- 1.The universal state for the group -- The games -- Energetic games -- Name game 1 - clicking -- Name game 2 - marching -- Cat and mouse -- Ships and shores -- The music game -- Musical chairs -- Jailors -- Snakes -- Stuck in the mud -- Sticky sticky glue -- Pirates -- Sense games -- Blind tag -- Grandmother's footsteps -- Who stole the honey from the honey pot? -- Mime telephones -- Static games -- Essence -- Mafia -- 2.Space, dimension and rhythm -- Space and sensitivity -- The ball game -- Friend and enemy -- Lines and curves -- Feeling for each other -- Shoal of fish -- Circle rhythms -- High, low, wide, narrow -- Diagonals -- Movement in practice (Greek Tragedy: The Burial at Thebes (Lucy Pitman Wallace) -- 3.The universal state for the individual -- Stance and posture -- Neutrality -- Achieving neutral -- The importance of pure movement for the voice -- Tension and release -- 4.Pure movement to achieve neutral -- Articulation exercises for different parts of the body -- The stance: parallel feet -- Feet -- Legs -- The head and face -- The head and neck -- Shoulders and sternum -- Spine -- Spine and shoulders -- Pelvis -- Floor exercises for the spine -- pt. 2 Movements with imagination at the heart of pure movement -- 5.Core movement exercises -- Rib stretches -- High rib stretch -- Side or wide rib stretch -- Forward rib stretch -- Shaking down through the spine with bounces -- Swings (part of pure movement) -- Arm swings -- Ski swing -- Bow and arrow arm swing -- Figure of eight arm swing -- Arm swing into arm swing and peeping under -- Rag doll swing -- Broken windmill swing -- Discus arm swing -- Lateral body swing -- Full torso swing -- Fish net swing -- Leg swings -- Figure of eight leg swing -- Swings travelling -- Bow and arrow travelling -- Swinging both arms over, bending down and peeping through -- Figure of eight arm swing -- Forearm and backhand swing -- Two armed partner swing in space -- Extra exercises for precision and suspension -- Run and fly (for balance) -- le prend -- Contre tension -- 6.Dynamic movement: The Cat -- The Cat - sequence of movements -- Yawn and stretch -- Head lift -- Demi-cobra -- Full cobra -- Jack knife -- Hip roll -- Leg kick -- Indian push through -- Pounce and pike -- Folded leaf -- The three back arches -- Headstand -- Big squat balance -- Big back arch to the floor -- Flipping out your legs -- Three bridges -- The three scissors -- Three leg twists -- Yoga headstand -- Forward shoulder roll -- Backward shoulder roll -- Three salutations to the sun on the right -- Three sweeping the sky on the right -- Swastika on the right leg -- Yoga spinal twist -- Backward shoulder roll -- Three salutations to the sun on the left -- Three sweeping the sky stretches on the left -- Swastika on the left leg -- Three recurring shoulder rolls over the right and left shoulders -- 7.Acrobatics and tumbling for the acting student -- Pure acrobatics -- An example of an acrobatic class for actors -- Partner work -- 8.Neutral mask -- Neutral masks (masques noble) - notes from Jacques Le Coq -- Classic LeCoq neutral mask exercises -- The goodbye -- The discovery -- Movement in practice: twenty movements -- 9.Character mask -- pt. 3 Body awareness, trust and sensitivity -- 10.Exploration of body and mind -- Trust and sensitivity exercises -- Trust -- Exploring face and breath -- Exploring hands and fingers -- 11.Massage and relaxation -- How to massage -- The massage -- Massage and body manipulation in threes -- Relaxation -- The way to relax -- Blind lead -- Falling into each other's arms -- The impulse exercise -- Contact improvisation -- pt. 4 Observation and imagination -- 12.Observation -- Imagination and transformation -- Emulating a walk -- 13.Animal study -- Movement in practice: animal work -- Teaching animal studies -- Examples of animal classes -- Class 1: Overview -- Class 2: Primates -- Class 3: Big cats -- Class 4: Birds -- Class 5: Small mammals -- Class 6: Big mammals -- Class 7: Reptiles -- 14.Elements -- Element exercises -- Earth -- Water -- Fire -- Air -- Movement in practice -- pt. 5 Imagination and transformation -- 15.The Seven Deadly Sins -- Pride -- How to physicalise pride -- Avarice/greed -- How to physicalise avarice -- Envy -- How to physicalise envy -- Wrath/anger -- How to physicalise wrath -- Lust -- How to physicalise lust -- Gluttony -- How to physicalise lust gluttony -- Sloth -- How to physicalise sloth -- 16.Explorative movement -- Creative, imaginative and explorative movement -- Group movement and improvisation -- Mickey Mouse movement -- The journey -- The sea monster -- The machine -- Tableaux -- Physicality for characters -- Elegance -- The grid -- 17.Period movement -- An overview of period movement / Michael Gaunt -- Period dance and movement -- Movement in practice / Madeleine Potter -- 18.Period dance -- An overview of period dance / Michael Gaunt -- Medieval dance -- The Carole -- Branles -- The Farandole -- The Italian Renaissance -- Bassa Danza -- Alexandreska -- Venus -- High Renaissance France and Elizabethan England -- Sellenger's round -- The Galliard -- The Pavane -- The Coranto -- Seventeenth century or Restoration dance -- The Minuet -- How to use dance as physical research for a play -- Glossary of period dance terms -- Movement in practice: The Man of Mode, Matthew Smith -- Conclusion / Robert Price -- To work on your voice: work on your body -- Example classes -- Class 1 -- Class 2 -- Class 3 -- Class 4 -- Class 5 -- Class 6 -- Class 7 -- Class 8.

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9781408128572
1408128578

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"RADA, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art"--Cover.

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Includes bibliographical references (page 188) and index.

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