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Ebook details:
عنوان: The Alexander Technique For Actors (Performance Books)
نویسنده: Kelly Mcevenue
ناشر: Methuen Drama; First Printing edition (November 8, 2001)
زبان: English
شابک: 0413710106, 978-0413710109
حجم: 3 Mb
فرمت: Epub + Converted Pdf

Cover Title Page Contents Acknowledgements Foreword by Patsy Rodenburg An Introduction to: The Alexander Technique for Actors Introduction F. M. Alexander’s Story Part 1: The Alexander Technique in the Theatre How the Alexander Technique Became My Vocation The Alexander Teacher’s Role in the Production of a Play The Principles of the Alexander Technique 1. Recognition of Habit 2. Inhibition – Pausing for an Instant to Arrest a Habit 3. The ‘Primary Control’ 4. Giving Direction – Learning to Use Your Thinking to Make a Change 5. ‘Feelings’ May Give Unreliable Feedback 6. End-gaining 7. Non-doing – ‘Less is More’ The Anatomy Lesson The Actor Prepares – Warming Up Preparing the Actor for Rehearsal or Performance Warm-up Exercises 1. Stretching on the Mat – Lying on the Back in the Semi-supine Position 2. Engaging the Adominal Wall and the Back Muscles. 3. A Shoulder Stretch 4. Getting Up Off the Floor 5. Finding Balance or ‘Centre’ 6. Arm Stretching 7. Undulating Through Centre 8. Find the Hip Joint 9. The Rolling-over Exercise 10. Balancing into Walking 11. An Open-leg Stretch Part 2: Putting the Alexander Technique to Work Partner Work – Moving in Relationship Partner Work and Spatial Awareness Exercises 1. Spatial Awareness Exercises 2. Endowment – Observing the Other 3. Stage 2 of Spatial Awareness 4. Contact Partner Work 5. Centrifugal Force and Opposition Exercises 6. A Mirroring Exercise 7. Status Work – Playing the High and the Low Brows 8. Tableau Exercise – Learning to Survive a ‘Freeze’ The Table Work and the Alexander Technique Lesson One Lesson Two Part 3: Alexander Technique and Voice Work 1. Alexander’s Discovery 2. Voice Work and the Alexander Technique 3. Musical Theatre 4. Opera Singing and the Alexander Technique 5. The Whispered ‘Ah’ Exercise Part 4: The Alexander Technique and Acting Challenges Relevance of the Alexander Technique to Acting 1. The Actor and Fitness 2. Character Work and the Alexander Technique 3. Playing Another Gender – from the ‘Trouser Role’ to the Drag Act 4. Imitation – Mirroring 5. The Kissing Class 6. Nudity 7. Alexander with Costumes, Wigs and Period Accoutrements 8. Mask Work 9. The Zoo Project – An Animal Study 10. The Lion King 11. An Elizabethan Bear 12. The Injured Actor 13. Understudies 14. The Ageing Actor 15. Falling and Fainting On Stage 16. Drunkenness 17. Martial Arts and the Alexander Technique The Stage – How the Actor Adapts to Playing the Space 1. The Proscenium-arch Stage 2. The Raked Stage 3. The Thrust Stage 4. Theatre In the Round 5. Outdoor Theatre Epilogue Addresses eCopyright

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