Rethinking the Actor's Body

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Rethinking the Actor's Body

Dialogues with Neuroscience

Individual actors and performers

Author: Dick McCaw

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Language: English

Published by: Methuen Drama

Published on: 2 April 2020

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 296 pages

ISBN: 9781350046481


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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