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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"actor training"”.
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Actor training and emotions: Finding a balance
Actor training is a challenging and personally confronting course of study during which students can undergo intense emotional upheaval. Australian conservatoires and vocational drama schools teach acting students to access and expand their emotional range as part of their professional skill …
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Presentness: Developing Presence Through Psychophysical Actor-Training
… performance studies as well as in the field of actor-training. Presentness, an aspect of presence, is the experience of the emerging here and now as shaped by the performer’s psychophysical engagement with his or her surrounding. It is, thus, a tangible aspect of presence that can be enhanced …
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Voice and body incorporated into actor training
… of both the vocal and physical aspects of training involved in the education of actors; Beginning with a comparison of techniques and principals applied in the styles of vocal specialists: Edith Skinner, Cicely Barry, and Kristin Linklater. I then explore various forms of "body use" …
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A comparison study of process drama and actor training
This study hypothesizes that process drama can enhance the acting skills of undergraduate acting students. Not only is process drama effective in teaching acting skills in general; it is adaptable to teaching those particular skills required by alternative forms such as epic theatre. Process drama …
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Psychology and the Theatre: A Qualitative Experiment in Actor Training
… the basic concepts and theories of psychology, actors can develop more concrete, logical approaches to characters. This thesis is a summation of the course I developed, "Psychology and the Theatre," which was an attempt to teach students introductory psychology and then experiment with …
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Consuming Brazil: Afro Brazilian Religion as a Base for Actor Training
Actor training, like the theatre in Brazil, has historically been a middle and upper class pursuit that followed European models, namely Stanislavski's system. Yet within Brazil there is a wealth of diverse cultures that are inherently theatrical and well suited for application in actor training. …
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How the lived experiences of black women can be understood through devised theatre informed by psychophysical actor training: an adaptation of the Tadashi Suzuki actor training technique
… I focus on aspects of Tadashi Suzuki (1986) actor training (referred to as Suzuki training), free writing and the body. I use black feminism, cognitive neuroscience and body theory to account for my lived body, which I then use in performance. Practice and theory informed each other in a …
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Integrating Actor Training into Movement Design: An Analysis of the Fight Direction in Tamburlaine and Edward II
… methods that both draw organically from actor's impulses, and integrate acting choices immediately. Too often the acting work is left off until the end; the actors are expected to layer their choices onto a fight that was not choreographed with those choices in mind. Instead, I seek to …
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A genealogy of the embodied theatre practices of Suzanne Bing and Michael Chekhov: the use of play in actor training
… Embodied Play as a constituent part of their actor training processes. A methodology is developed in the introduction which draws on Foucault’s notion of genealogy and Feminist approaches to historiography in order to trace and review accounts of these often marginalised play practices in …
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Being an actor/becoming a trainer: the embodied logos of intersubjective experience in a somatic acting process
… in my experience as an actress who has become an actor-trainer within UK-based actor-training institutions. It explores the development of an original somatic actor-training methodology within different theatre teaching and performing environments. This research concentrates on challenging …
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"Speake, Breathe, Discusse" : Towards a critical breath pedagogy for speaking Shakespeare
… implications of applying ideas of breath training for speaking Shakespeare rooted in British voice trainin⋅g in a university context. In addition to the drawing on literature and my own pedagogic practice, the methods used are interviews with voice coaches, and observation of a series of …
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The Pedagogy of Shakespeare & Company
… in several ways the principles and practices of actor training at Shakespeare & Company of Lenox, Massachusetts. Chapter 1 is a narrative of my personal experience at the Month-long Intensive in Lenox, elaborating its multiple components. Chapter 2 recounts the genesis of the company and looks at …
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A critical documentation of Mavis Taylor's teaching of improvisation
… of the improvisational methods she uses in the training of actors. It places her teaching within the wider field of improvisation understanding the importance of knowledge of 'self for the craft of acting. There is discussion around the role of the imagination and spontaneity in actor-training, …
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Flow-Acting: Modern Sports Science and the Preparation of Actors
… science with an understanding of systems of actor training I have suggested an approach that makes presence a trainable skill. My coach Dr. Scott Sonnon, developer of the Circular Strength Training System, has refined modern sports science to emphasize the development and maintenance of …
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Ensemble cast: filling pedagogical gaps in theatre education with school and community partnerships
… Examination of curriculum plans from a youth actor training program in Milwaukee, WI, with the Wisconsin Standards for Theatre revealed that the curriculum aligned with all 17 of the Wisconsin Theatre Performance standards. Students also demonstrated growth and development relative to the …
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Influence of a drama based education program on the development of empathy in year 10, Western Australian students
… in participants. This process, combined with the Actor Training system of Constantin Stanislavski, and the Forum Theatre model developed by Augusto Boal, was tested for its efficacy in increasing empathy in adolescents. This study took the form of a ten-week drama-based program intervention (The …
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"Let's put on our teaching face" : an investigation of teaching styles and their skillsets
… benefit to teachers of learning the skills of an actor such as voice, breathing and relaxation techniques, movement and use of space, presence and mindfulness and improvisation. The research argues that actor training may lead to increased effective communication with an 'audience' of learners in …
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The Way of Transformation (The Laban-Malmgren System of Dramatic Character Analysis)
… is a 'critical edition' of a system of actor training based on three main sources: a vocabulary of movement analysis developed by Rudolf Laban in the last years of his life; C. G. Jung's theory of psychological functions and types; and the acting system of C. Stanislavski and his main …
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Motion in Poetry: A Psychophysical, Action-Based Approach to the Composition and Analysis of Metrical Dramatic Verse
… approach it as much from the perspective of the actor as from that of the playwright, and presents a psychophysical, action-based approach to the composition and analysis of metrical dramatic verse. Verse rhythm is explored through the application of Rudolf Laban’s concepts of Motion Factors and …
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Theatre : the art of human being : locating the cultural value of theatre in the Age of Broadcast Media and a retrospective paper on the process leading towards the 2000 performance Involving Eternity
… grounding my recent work as a theatre maker and actor. I begin by examining the position of theatre in relationship to popular culture and the newly emerging aesthetics of the electronic era. The dynamics that separate the theatre from new forms of popular culture are strongly defined and …
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