Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pisk, Litz,
• Tashkiran, Ayse,
• Elliott, Michael,

Titel

The actor and his body

Auflage

Fourth edition

Ort / Verlag

London, England : Bloomsury Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,, London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing,

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Link zum Volltext

• Bloomsbury Drama Online: Critical Studies and Performance Practice - Annual Update 2021

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• First published in Great Britain in 1975 by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvi-xxviii).
• Introduction / Ayse Tashkiran -- Foreword / Michael Elliott -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Awareness -- The spine -- Non-resistance -- Tuning and resilience -- Length and breadth -- Confluence -- Empathy -- Summary for movement practice -- The x-rays.
• 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 a 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.
• Also published in print.