Mask Improvisation For Actor Training Performance

Author : Sears A. Eldredge
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810113657
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mask Improvisation for Actor Training & Performance written by Sears A. Eldredge and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because mask improvisation work is relatively new in American theater training, this book is designed not only to acquaint readers with the theory of mask improvisation but to instruct them in the techniques of method as well. Featuring dozens of improvisational exercises in the innovative spirit of Viola Spolin, and supplemented with practical appendices on mask design and construction, forms and checklists, and other classroom materials, this book is an invaluable tool for teacher and student alike, as well as compelling reading for anyone interested in acquiring a deeper understanding of masks as agents of transformation, creativity, and performance.

Author : Anthony Frost
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137348127
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Improvisation in Drama, Theatre and Performance written by Anthony Frost and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improvisation is a tool for many things: performance training, rehearsal practice, playwriting, therapeutic interaction and somatic discovery. This book opens up the significance of improvisation across cultures, histories and ways of performing our life, offering key insights into the what, the how and the why of performance. It traces the origins of improvisation and its influences, both as a social and political phenomenon and its position in performance training. Including history, theory and practice, this new edition encompasses Theatre and performance studies as well as drama, acknowledging the rapid reconfiguration of these fields in recent years. Its coverage also now extends to improvisation in the USA, cinema, LARPing, street events and the improvising audience, while also looking at improv's relationship to stand-up comedy, jazz, poetry and free movement practices. With an index of exercises and an extensive bibliography, this book is indispensable to students of improvisation.

Author : Franc Chamberlain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000038858
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners written by Franc Chamberlain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-16 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks. Each of the chapters is written by an expert on a particular figure, from Stanislavsky and Brecht to Laban and Decroux, and places their work in its social and historical context. Summaries and analyses of their key productions indicate how each practitioner's theoretical approaches to performance and the performer were manifested in practice. All 22 practitioners from the original series are represented, with this volume covering those born before the end of the First World War. This is the definitive first step for students, scholars and practitioners hoping to acquaint themselves with the leading names in performance, or deepen their knowledge of these seminal figures.

Author : Franc Chamberlain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000402118
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Studio Performance Practice written by Franc Chamberlain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Studio Performance Practice is a unique, indispensable guide to the training methods of the world’s key theatre practitioners. Compiling the practical work outlined in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks, each set of exercises has been edited and contextualised by an expert in that particular approach. Each chapter provides a taster of one practitioner’s work, answering the same key questions: ‘How did this artist work? How can I begin to put my understanding of this to practical use?’ Newly written chapter introductions put the exercises in context, explaining how they fit into the wider methods and philosophy of the practitioner in question. All 21 volumes in the original series are represented in this volume.

Author : Wendy J. Meaden
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351380397
Total Pages : 763 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre Masks Out Side In written by Wendy J. Meaden and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre Masks Out Side In examines masks from different angles and perspectives, combining the history, design, construction, and use of masks into one beautifully illustrated resource. Each chapter includes key information about an element of mask study: history and uses, theatre traditions, practical principles for directing, performing exercises, design considerations, mask-making techniques, and considering makeup as mask. Artist interviews, theatre company profiles, and hundreds of images provide insight into the variety of mask styles and performance applications. Project suggestions, discussion questions, useful worksheets, creative prompts, and resources for sourcing masks are included to inspire further exploration. Theatre Masks Out Side In is designed with the beginning theatre maker in mind, as well as prop makers, costume designers and technicians, and actors learning to use masks in performance.

Author : Sears Atwood Eldredge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 982 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masks written by Sears Atwood Eldredge and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Simon Trussler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521603287
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Theatre Quarterly 79: Volume 20, Part 3 written by Simon Trussler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-21 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet.

Author : Toby Wilsher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134122403
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mask Handbook written by Toby Wilsher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of simple explanations, fun and effective practical exercises and collating over twenty-five years’ experience of writing for, directing and acting in masks, this handbook provides a fascinating demystification of the process of using masks.

Author : Libby Appel
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809310395
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mask Characterization written by Libby Appel and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the mask, Appel notes, the stu­dent is free to create a personality; paradox­ically, because the mask hides the self, it en­ables the student to probe more deeply into himself. "This book describes, defines, and dis­cusses the mask characterization process, providing the theory behind the exercises and the step-by-step procedure in the organ­ic development of the character from the masks," Appel notes. The manual is divided into two parts: "The Instructor's Guide" and "The Actor's Guide." There is also an intro­ductory chapter, "The Class Structure," which explains mask characterization pro­cedures in the classroom, and a sample class schedule may be found in the back of the manual. This book adds a new dimension to actor training and learning. It is essential to aspir­ing actors seeking new ways to create honest dramatic characterizations.

Author : Mark Evans
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135892946
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Movement Training for the Modern Actor written by Mark Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the cultural history of modern movement training for actors, Evans traces the development of the ‘neutral’ body as a significant area of practice within drama school training and the relationship between movement pedagogy and the operation of discipline and power in shaping the professional identity of the actor.