Movement For Actors Pa

In this resource for actors, movement teachers and directors explore thehysical skills needed for the stage and the screen. The contributors, whore from diverse performance traditions, explain how their particulariscipline came into being and why the skills involved are valuable toerformers, and they present exercises and approaches for actors. The workims to provide an insight into the physical skills, techniques and styleseveloped and used in 20th- and 21st-century performance, and readers whoish to explore a particular discipline should be able to jump to the chapterhat pertains to their area of interest - whether it be Alexander technique,he work of Tadashi Suzuki, or period movement for the plays of Moliere.hose who want to pursue serious training in a particular technique canonsult the appendix for listings of the best teachers.

Nicole Potter is the senior editor at Allworth Press and an adjunct professor in the theater department of Marymount Manhattan College