Acting and Being Explorations in Embodied Performance
Acting and Being Explorations in Embodied Performance by Elizabeth Hess is a softcover reprint of the original 1st edition published by Palgrave Macmillan UK on July 12, 2018. This 239-page book presents systematic and original explorations in performance technique, combining various physical theater modalities from both Western and Eastern practices. The author, who is an educator, actor, playwright, and director, delves into methods that engage behavioral, physiological, and psychological states to enhance the actor’s craft.
Readers will find a comprehensive approach that encourages individual, partnered, and collective explorations to uncover a character’s essence and consciousness. The book emphasizes the importance of energy centers, body language, and archetypes in relation to universal themes. Through the use of magic, metaphor, and myth, Hess provides a framework for transformative artistic expression that can be adapted for character work, scene study, and production. This edition invites practitioners to engage in collaborative creativity that is both inventive and inclusive, making it a valuable resource for those interested in the performing arts, dance, and theater.
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In this book, educator-actor-playwright-director Elizabeth Hess offers systematic and original explorations in performance technique. This hybrid approach is a fusion of physical theater modalities culled from Western practices (Psycho-physical actions, Viewpoints) Eastern practices (Butoh, Kundalini yoga) and related performance disciplines (Mask, Puppetry). Behavioral, physiological and psychological ‘states of being’ are engaged to unlock impulses, access experience and enlarge the imagination. Through individual, partnered and collective explorations, actors uncover a character’s essence and level of consciousness, their energy center and body language, and their archetype and relationship to universal themes. Magic (to pretend, as if), Metaphor (to compare, as like) and Myth (to pattern after, as in) provide the foundation for generating transformative, empathetic and expansive artistic expression. Explorations can be adapted to character work, scene study and production, including original/devised work and established text, to illuminate singular and surprising work through collaborative creativity that is inventive, inclusive and alive.
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