Download or read book Liberation of the Actor written by Peter Bridgmont and published by Temple Lodge Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The artist was once a messenger of the gods. Breathing in, the Greek actor was lifted into a realm of thought and inspiration. And breathing out, the will was strengthened. Can modern actors again become messengers through their own power of description and dramatization? Anyone with an interest in the spoken word, acting, or the future of the theater in general will welcome this book. The author goes beyond simple character study and interpretation to reexamine the forgotten esoteric aspects of acting. Based on Rudolf Steiner's ideas on speech and drama, Bridgmont provides a new basis for the true liberation of actors today.

Download or read book THEATRE of ACTOR AUTHOR 1 Theatre of Liberated Desire written by Milica Djukic and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ground-breaking work of the founder of Theatre of Actor-Author, Milica Djukic, Hungarian-Montenegrin actress, merges together the dominant and the subversive, the inner and outer, the past and the future. Milica Djukic, depicts and explains her original hypothesis in the field of acting in theatre that acknowledges scenic text, and where the actor is the author of the complete scenic work. In a series of books, she depicts processes of decomposition, genesis, cancellation and abolishment of a role, examining different types and kinds of concentration of an actor, in an individual and collective search that paves the way for many different directions of the theatre of the future. In the end, the actor-author becomes a complete author of a unique scenic language, opening the door for the continuation of the human theatre, with or without the aid of technology. Milica Djukic leans onto what is learned and mastered, lists her influences (amongst which the theatre of monodramas of Maxim Gorky and of Spalding Gray), digs into the realms of post-structuralist philosophy (Gilles Deleuze), yet rebels against the same influences (what is learned and mastered), deepening the insight in her gradual research which is aimed towards the liberation of an actor from any adverse stimuli-reaction motivation, in a theatre where the actor is the complete author (or one of the authors) of the entire scenic work (inside and outside of the Theatre of Actor-Author and the 4th Curtain (Quadrant) and beyond)). Today and tomorrow, You are more than a quadrant, inside or outside of the Theatre of the Actor-Author, you can be an author too. In her 25 years of work, Milica Djukic starts with the depiction of the abolishment of a role, and finishes with the outlines of the cancellation of universal laws of representation; inside and outside of the universal symbolism, seeking the future in which traditions with no drama, or even acting, or acting theory are equated amongst many different directions of the theatre of the future. In her work, through a series of books, Milica Djukic, tries to depict what Lee Breuer once called the "third revolution" in theatre, that of the Actor (author).

Download or read book The Death of the Actor written by Martin Buzacott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Death of the Actor Martin Buzacott launches an all-out attack on contemporary theatrical practice and performance theory which identifies the actor, rather than the director, as the key creative force in the performance of Shakespeare. Because actors are absent from the site of Shakespearean meaning, he argues, the illusion of their centrality is sustained only by a rhetoric of heroism, violence and imperialism.

Download or read book Devising Performance written by Jane Milling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-11 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the history of devised theatre? Why have theatre-makers, since the 1950s, chosen to devise performances? What different sorts of devising practices are there? What are the myths attached to devising, and what are the realities? First published in 2005, Devising Performance remains the only book to offer the reader a history of devising practice. Charting the development of collaboratively created performances from the 1950s to the early 21st century, it presents a range of case studies drawn from Britain, America and Australia. Companies discussed include The Living Theatre, Open Theatre, Australian Performing Group, People Show, Teatro Campesino, Théâtre de Complicité, Legs on the Wall, Forced Entertainment, Goat Island and Graeae. Providing a history of devising practice, Deirdre Heddon and Jane Milling encourage us to look more carefully at the different modes of devising and to consider the implications of our use of these practices in the 21st century.

Download or read book Social Cognition Inference and Attribution written by R. S. Wyer, Jr. and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Download or read book Liberation of the Theatre Rudolf Steiner Theatre Critic 1897 1900 written by Peter Bridgmont and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of reviews by drama critic Rudolf Steiner Berlin 1897-1900 describing the birth of new Theatre. Edited by Peter Bridgmont www.liberationofacting.com

Download or read book The End of Acting written by Richard Hornby and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1992 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Richard Hornby's preface: This book is written for those who act, those who teach acting, and those who are interested in seeing it. It is both a theoretical work and a call for action. This book is an unashamed attack on the American acting establishment ... The concepts derive from my graduate seminars in acting theory and history in the School of Theatre at Florida State University ... Much of the feistiness of those classes carries over into this book ... If my arguments serve only to stimulate new dialogue, they will have been valuable.

Download or read book Training of the American Actor Large Print 16pt written by Arthur Bartow and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive survey and study of the major techniques developed by and for the American actor over the past 60 years. Presented side-by-side, each of the 10 disciplines included is described in detail by one of today's foremost practitioners. An invaluable resource both for the young actor embarking on a career and for the theatre professional polishing his or her craft. ''successful acting must reflect a society's current beliefs. The men and women who developed each new technique were convinced that previous methods were not equal to the full challenges of their time and place, and the techniques in this book have been adapted to current needs in order to continue to be successful methods for training actors. The actor's journey is an individual one, and the actor seeks a form, or a variety of forms, of training that will assist in unlocking his own creative gifts of expression.''

Download or read book Understanding and Dealing With Violence written by Barbara C. Wallace and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2002-11-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding and Dealing with Violence: A Multicultural Approach situates violence within a social, cultural, and historical context. Edited by distinguished scholars Barbara C. Wallace and Robert T. Carter, this unique volume explores historical factors, socialization influences, and the historical and contemporary dynamics between the oppressed and the oppressor. State-of-the-art research guides a diverse group of psychologists, educators, policy-makers, religious leaders, community members, victims, and perpetrators in finding viable solutions to violence.

Download or read book Transforming Encounters and Critical Reflection African Thought Critical Theory and Liberation Theology in Dialogue written by Justin Sands and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Transforming Encounters and Critical Reflection: African Thought, Critical Theory, and Liberation Theology in Dialogue" that was published in Religions

Download or read book Cold War Frequencies written by Richard H. Cummings and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published for the first time, the history of the CIA's clandestine short-wave radio broadcasts to Eastern Europe and the USSR during the early Cold War is covered in-depth. Chapters describe the "gray" broadcasting of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty in Munich; clandestine or "black" radio broadcasts from Radio Nacional de Espana in Madrid to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine; transmissions to Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Ukraine and the USSR from a secret site near Athens; and broadcasts to Byelorussia and Slovakia. Infiltrated behind the Iron Curtain through dangerous air drops and boat landings, CIA and other intelligence service agents faced counterespionage, kidnapping, assassination, arrest and imprisonment. Excerpts from broadcasts taken from monitoring reports of Eastern Europe intelligence agencies are included.

Download or read book Acting Is Feeling written by Michael Hankin and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Training of the Actor has sought throughout its history to empower the actor with the most effective method of profoundly moving an audience. The present volume seeks to accomplish this most lofty of goals by anchoring the actor's process deep in the body from the first contact with the material to be performed. The bypassing of the chatter from the brain is the most direct route to liberation of the actor and the satisfaction of the audience. If we can learn to listen to the center of the body we can free ourselves to, not only be successful with our audiences, but to find endless joy and empowerment that we have heretofore only futilely sought. Acting Is Feeling invites you to experience that freedom.

Download or read book Rosicrucian Wisdom written by Rudolf Steiner and published by Rudolf Steiner Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Rudolf Steiner is unique in the way it combines esoteric teaching with practical suggestions for the development of social life. Indeed, Steiner is best known today for the application of his ideas in areas such as education, medicine and agriculture. But none of this could have developed without the coherent and profound body of spiritual knowledge which stands at the very core of Steiner's work. In Rosicrucian Wisdom - one of his most complete introductions to modern spirituality - Steiner speaks out of the stream of Rosicrucian teaching. But rather than borrowing old ideas from historical tradition, Steiner presents a wholly new contribution arising from the results of his own experiential research. He talks of the Rosicrucian path as being appropriate for the modern spiritual seeker, but warns that Rosicrucian teaching should not be taken as abstract theory. Rather than remaining in the head or even the heart, spiritual ideas should reach into daily action, transforming all aspects of life. Steiner goes on to describe many facets of spiritual truth, including the law of destiny, the fact of life after death, ways of developing spiritual vision, humanity's past and future evolution, and much more.

Download or read book Understanding Lone Actor Terrorism written by Michael Fredholm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the lone actor terrorist phenomenon, including the larger societal trends which may or may not have led to their acts of terrorism. With lone actor terrorism becoming an increasingly common threat, the contributors to this volume aim to answer the following questions: What drives the actions of individuals who become lone actor terrorists? Are ideological and cultural issues key factors, or are personal psychological motives more useful in assessing the threat? Do lone actors evolve in a broader social context or are they primarily fixated loners? What response strategies are available to security services and law enforcement? What is the future outlook for this particular terrorist threat? Although these issues are frequently discussed, few books have taken a global perspective as their primary focus. While many books focus on lone actor terrorists in relation to terrorist groups, such as Al-Qaida and the Islamic State, few, if any, cover lone actors of all ideological backgrounds, including the variants of active shooters and malicious insiders in information security, such as Edward Snowden – with both of these latter categories constituting an important variant of lone actors. Utilising the expertise of academics and practitioners, the volume offers a valuable multidisciplinary perspective. This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism and counter-terrorism, political violence, criminology, security studies and IR.

Download or read book The Total Work of Art in European Modernism written by David Roberts and published by Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking book David Roberts sets out to demonstrate the centrality of the total work of art to European modernism since the French Revolution. The total work of art is usually understood as the intention to reunite the arts into the one integrated whole, but it is also tied from the beginning to the desire to recover and renew the public function of art. The synthesis of the arts in the service of social and cultural regeneration was a particularly German dream, which made Wagner and Nietzsche the other center of aesthetic modernism alongside Baudelaire and Mallarmé. The history and theory of the total work of art pose a whole series of questions not only to aesthetic modernism and its utopias but also to the whole epoch from the French Revolution to the totalitarian revolutions of the twentieth century. The total work of art indicates the need to revisit key assumptions of modernism, such as the foregrounding of the autonomy and separation of the arts at the expense of the countertendencies to the reunion of the arts, and cuts across the neat equation of avant-gardism with progress and deconstructs the familiar left-right divide between revolution and reaction, the modern and the antimodern. Situated at the interface between art, religion, and politics, the total work of art invites us to rethink the relationship between art and religion and art and politics in European modernism. In a major departure from the existing literature David Roberts argues for twin lineages of the total work, a French revolutionary and a German aesthetic, which interrelate across the whole epoch of European modernism, culminating in the aesthetic and political radicalism of the avant-garde movements in response to the crisis of autonomous art and the accelerating political crisis of European societies from the 1890s forward.

Download or read book The Actor s Way written by Erik Exe Christoffersen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can 'stage presence' be acquired? Why do some actors appear more dynamic in performance than others? In The Actors Way four experienced actors talk about the secrets and the practical realities of over twenty-five years of theatre training with Odin Teatret. Under the unique direction of Eugenio Barba, director of Odin Teatret, they have explored issues such as the connections between physical and mental work on stage, how to gain and control the spectator's attention, and intercultural performance techniques. The Actor's Way is a fascinating account of personal and professional development in the theatre. It will be vital reading for drama students and actors, but enjoyable and illuminating for anyone interested in the craft of acting.

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 315 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