The Actor and His Body

Pisk, Litz

ISBN 10: 0245527214 / ISBN 13: 9780245527210

Edité par Virgin Books, 1974

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Synopsis :

A guide to body movement in acting.

Présentation de l'éditeur: Once you start working with someone like Litz you don t ever want to stop if you can help it - Vanessa Redgrave

Litz Pisk was widely regarded as the most influential teacher of modern theatre movement of the 20th Century. She innovated and advocated a physical training that sought to combine awareness, emotion and imagination specifically for the actor's craft. Her seminal book, The Actor and His Body, is the direct result of her unique dual career as a professional movement director and as an actor movement teacher working in leading British conservatoires.

Pisk's quest was to find expression for the inner impulse that motivated actors to move. Her teachings, as outlined in this book, offer insight on the specific craft of the actor, and the relationship between movement, imagination and the 'need' to move.

The Actor and His Body is also a practical manual for keeping the actor's body physically and expressively responsive. In addition, there are a range of movement exercises, illuminated by her exquisite line drawings, and complete weekly programme which concentrates on movement practice within different timescales.

This fourth edition features the original foreword by Michael Elliot as well as a new introduction by Ayse Tashkiran, contemporary movement director and Senior Lecturer at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, which contextualises Pisk's work.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Actor and His Body
Éditeur : Virgin Books
Date d'édition : 1974
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Used; Good