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Annie Loui
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Acting
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Actor training
Annie Loui
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Contact improvisation
Contact Session
corporeal mime
Drawn Back
embodied performance training
ensemble improvisation
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Exercises
Head Isolations
Hey Man
Lead Warrior
Lower Abdominal Muscles
Milling Exercise
Mime
Mime Illusions
Motion Stop
Movement
Movement for actors
movement pedagogy
Performance
Physical Actor's Work
Physical Actor’s Work
physical theatre methodology
Play Back
Pompey's Statue
Pompey’s Statue
Relaxed Attentiveness
somatic practices
Super Heroes
Switch Partners
Tai Chi
Theater
Theatre
Tightrope Walker
Trading Fours
Vibrant Naturalism
Weight Support

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415789349
  • Weight: 396g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Oct 2018
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

The Physical Actor is a comprehensive book of exercises for actors. It is carefully designed for the development of a strong and flexible physical body able to move with ease through space and interact instinctively on-stage. Annie Loui draws on her training with Etienne Decroux, Carolyn Carlson, and Jerzy Grotowski to bring Contact Improvisation into the theatrical sphere. She explains how it can be used to develop alert and embodied listening skills in the actor, and how to apply it to working with texts on stage.

This book will guide the reader through a full course of movement skills, including:

  • Partnering skills

  • Spatial awareness for groups and individuals

  • Fine motor control through mime

  • Heightened co-ordination and sustained motion

New for this edition are additional partnering exercises, in-depth applications of contact improvisation to monologues and scenes, and a chapter on devising physical theatre performances.
About Annie Loui
Annie Loui works as a director/choreographer, and is the Artistic Director of Counter-Balance Theater. Her original physical theater pieces have been seen in France, Monaco, West Germany, Italy, and the United States. She runs the Movement Program for MFA Actor Training at the University of California, Irvine.

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