Overview

How does an actor embody a character? How do they use their body as an instrument of expression? Rethinking the Actor's Body offers an accessible introduction to the fields of neurophysiology and embodied knowledge through a detailed examination of what an actor does with their body. Built on almost a decade of conversations and public seminars by the author Dick McCaw in partnership with John Rothwell (Professor of Neurophysiology at University College London, UK), Rethinking the Actor's Body explores a set of questions and preoccupations concerning the actor’s body and examines overlaps in research and practice in the fields of actor training, embodied knowledge and neurophysiology.

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Author:   Dick McCaw (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
Weight:   0.462kg
ISBN:  

9781350046474

ISBN 10:   1350046477
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   02 April 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Part I – The Actor’s Bodies Chapter 1 – The Presence of the Actor’s Body Chapter 2 – The Energetic Body Chapter 3 – The Vital Body and the Bodily Instrument Chapter 4 – Body Topologies Chapter 5 – The Sense of a Body Chapter 6 – The Body Which Learns Chapter 7 – The Emotional Body Chapter 8 – The Biomechanical Body Chapter 9 – The Anatomical Body Part II – The Actor’s Brain Chapter 10 - Front Brain/Back Brain Chapter Chapter 11 - Learning and Memory Chapter 12 - Imagining the Body Chapter 13 – The Relation between Sensory and Motor Nerves Chapter 14 – Stage Fright and Keeping Your Head Conclusion

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Rethinking the Actor's Body confronts us with the perspective to undertake the first steps towards something that in the long run could affect our understanding of not only the actor's, but also the 'ordinary', everyday body. * Skene: Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies *

Rethinking the Actor's Body confronts us with the perspective to undertake the first steps towards something that in the long run could affect our understanding of not only the actor's, but also the 'ordinary', everyday body. * Skene: Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies * This is an excellent book. ... with such excellent, succinct confirmations and revelations entirely backed up by his dialogues with science. It is indispensable in this regard. * National Drama *

Author Information

Dick McCaw is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He has edited two books, With an Eye for Movement (2006) and The Laban Sourcebook (2011) and is the author of Bakhtin and Theatre (2015) and Training the Actor’s Body (Methuen Drama, 2017). He is a qualified Feldenkrais practitioner.

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