Laban's Efforts in Action

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Laban's Efforts in Action

A Movement Handbook for Actors with Online Video Resources

Individual actors and performers

Authors: Vanessa Ewan, Kate Sagovsky

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Language: English

Published by: Methuen Drama

Published on: 18th October 2018

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 304 pages

ISBN: 9781472524522


As an actor, awareness of your movement is the key to transformation.

By making deliberate physical choices, you can fully and articulately embody different ways of being: you can become someone or something else. Laban's Efforts give you a way of identifying and making these choices. Working with them helps the actor to create wholly present and physically ambitious performances.

This book outlines Ewan's practical process, which allows the actor to understand their own movement and that of others by exploring one key part of Laban's work: the 'Efforts of Action Drive'.

This complete, stage-by-stage, working process has been developed through more than thirty years of work with actors in the studio. Clear instructions for practical exercises are woven throughout the book, as well as exciting ways to apply the work in rehearsal, performance and on set. This allows the actor to learn and apply Laban's Efforts for themselves. Full video and audio resources allow the reader to experience the practical work in action.

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