Performer Prepares

Author : David Craig
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557833952
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Performer Prepares written by David Craig and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Acting Series). A Performer Prepares is a 13-part master class on how to perform on any stage from bleak rehearsal room to the Palace Theatre. The class covers the basic Broadway song numbers, from show ballad to showstopper. With precise, logical steps and dynamic and entertaining dialogues between himself and his students, David Craig takes anyone with the desire to shine from an audition to final curtain call. These lessons on the pages recreate as closely as possible the unique interpersonal dyamic of Craig's legendary coaching encounters in New York, Los Angeles and across the country.

Author : Robert Caldwell
Publisher : Pst Records
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Performer Prepares written by Robert Caldwell and published by Pst Records. This book was released on 1990 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the techniques musicians can use to "conjure the energy, the charisma, and the command of the stage necessary" to transform their performances.

Author : Jeff Alan-Lee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493061046
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Young Actor Prepares written by Jeff Alan-Lee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Young Actor Prepares, Jeff Alan-Lee masterfully delivers kids' and teens' acting classes presented as plays in script form. The classes are based on actual semesters at the Young Actor's Studio in Los Angeles and provide step-by-step approaches to help children and teenagers portray complex characters and tackle emotionally challenging roles. For over thirty years, Alan-Lee has worked with thousands of young people, teaching the work presented in this book. His work has been the springboard for award-winning artists in acting, directing, playwriting, screenwriting, and music. Inspired by Stanislavski's An Actor Prepares, Alan-Lee has developed engaging and exciting ways to create great acting, using a unique version of the Stanislavski system that he reworked for the young actor. It's a fun and easy method to help children and teens learn to apply Stanislavski-based exercises and use their own their own life experiences, imagination, and emotions to create authentic acting and performances. The book is for kids and teens, as well as teachers and parents. Kids and teens can find relatable characters and gain a deeper ability to make their acting shine. Teachers will get a unique look at how to handle a multitude of personalities while teaching the real work to children as young as eight. Parents will discover an actor's process that can lead their kids to greater self-esteem and creativity in all the arts.

Author : Rosemary Malague
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136503900
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Actress Prepares written by Rosemary Malague and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Every day, thousands of women enter acting classes where most of them will receive some variation on the Stanislavsky-based training that has now been taught in the U.S. for nearly ninety years. Yet relatively little feminist consideration has been given to the experience of the student actress: What happens to women in Method actor training?' An Actress Prepares is the first book to interrogate Method acting from a specifically feminist perspective. Rose Malague addresses "the Method" not only with much-needed critical distance, but also the crucial insider's view of a trained actor. Case studies examine the preeminent American teachers who popularized and transformed elements of Stanislavsky’s System within the U.S.—Strasberg, Adler, Meisner, and Hagen— by analyzing and comparing their related but distinctly different approaches. This book confronts the sexism that still exists in actor training and exposes the gender biases embedded within the Method itself. Its in-depth examination of these Stanislavskian techniques seeks to reclaim Method acting from its patriarchal practices and to empower women who act. 'I've been waiting for someone to write this book for years: a thorough-going analysis and reconsideration of American approaches to Stanislavsky from a feminist perspective ... lively, intelligent, and engaging.' – Phillip Zarrilli, University of Exeter 'Theatre people of any gender will be transformed by Rose Malague’s eye-opening study An Actress Prepares... This book will be useful to all scholars and practitioners determined to make gender equity central to how they hone their craft and their thinking.' – Jill Dolan, Princeton University

Author : Maria Kapsali
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317194853
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performer Training and Technology written by Maria Kapsali and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performer Training and Technology employs philosophical approaches to technology, including postphenomenology and Heidegger’s thinking, to examine the way technology manifests, influences and becomes used in performer training discourse and practice. The book offers in-depth discussions of present and past performer training practices through a lens that has never been applied before; considers the employment of key digital artefacts; and develops a series of analytical tools that can be useful in scholarly and practical explorations. An array of intriguing subjects are covered including the role of electric lights in Stanislavsky’s work on concentration; the use of handheld tools, such as sticks in Zarrilli’s psychophysical training and Meyerhold’s Biomechanics; the emergence of new forms of training in relation to motion capture technology; and the way the mobile phone complicates notions and practices of attention in learning and training contexts. This book is of vital relevance to performer training scholars and practitioners; theatre, performance, and dance scholars and students; and especially those interested in philosophies of technology.

Author : Jane Hollander
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457424014
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preparing the Performer: Secrets for String Players from Primary to Professional written by Jane Hollander and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preparing the Performer is a 'must have' manual for all string players and instructors! Enjoyably readable, this volume is chock full of ideas, secrets, upgrades and inspiration from dealing with the practice blahs to tips for elegant bow technique. Hollander's delightfully light touch unites practicality with wisdom.

Author : Robert Caldwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934477045
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performer Prepares written by Robert Caldwell and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stan Godlovitch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134654405
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Performance written by Stan Godlovitch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most music we hear comes to us via a recording medium on which sound has been stored. Such remoteness of music heard from music made has become so commonplace it is rarely considered. Musical Performance: A Philosophical Study considers the implications of this separation for live musical performance and music-making. Rather than examining the composition or perception of music as most philosophical accounts of music do, Stan Godlovitch takes up the problem of how the tradition of active music playing and performing has been challenged by technology and what problems this poses for philosophical aesthetics. Where does does the value of musical performance lie? Is human performance of music a mere transfer medium? Is the performance of music more expressive than recorded music? Musical Performance poses questions such as these to develop a fascinating account of music today. musicians - but via some recording medium on which sound has been stored.

Author : Shirlee Emmons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199761787
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power Performance for Singers written by Shirlee Emmons and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To perform well in today's highly competitive world where technical skills have been advanced to an unprecedented degree, a singer must be able to handle incredible pressure within the performing arena; his or her ability to deal with this stress will often determine whether he or she will succeed. Why, then, do singers with less technical skill sometimes out-perform stars? Why do some stars suddenly stop performing? What is that mysterious factor that makes an electric performance? Consistent, competent performances do not depend solely upon superior vocal skills, nor are they a matter of luck. On the contrary, the best performances result from a combination of mental attitude, concrete performing skills, and excellent technical skills in that order. Yet most singers have never had the opportunity to acquire the essential skills that make for a successful career. Written as a self-help manual for singers at all levels of expertise, Power Performance for Singers is designed to teach performing artists, and especially singers, how to experience elite performance at their level. The skills outlined in this book will help singers use what they have, to enjoy their voices during performance, and to perform consistently to the best of their present ability.

Author : Phillip B. Zarrilli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134575432
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acting (Re)Considered written by Phillip B. Zarrilli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acting (Re)Considered is an exceptionally wide-ranging collection of theories on acting, ideas about body and training, and statements about the actor in performance. This second edition includes five new essays and has been fully revised and updated, with discussions by or about major figures who have shaped theories and practices of acting and performance from the late nineteenth century to the present. The essays - by directors, historians, actor trainers and actors - bridge the gap between theories and practices of acting, and between East and West. No other book provides such a wealth of primary and secondary sources, bibliographic material, and diversity of approaches. It includes discussions of such key topics as: * how we think and talk about acting * acting and emotion * the actor's psychophysical process * the body and training * the actor in performance * non-Western and cross-cultural paradigms of the body, training and acting. Acting (Re)Considered is vital reading for all those interested in performance.