Contact Improvisation from Studio to Stage
Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 205 mm, Gewicht: 400 g
ISBN: 978-0-415-78934-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book will guide the reader through a full course of movement skills, including:
- Partnering skills
- Spatial awareness for groups and individuals
- Fine motor control through mime
- Heightened co-ordination and sustained motion
New for this edition are additional partnering exercises, in-depth applications of contact improvisation to monologues and scenes, and a chapter on devising physical theatre performances.
Zielgruppe
Professional Practice & Development
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Foreword
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
1. WARM-UP AND ALIGNMENT
What we do and how we approach it
Warm-up sequence
2. SPACE
Spatial exercises
3. MIME
Alignment
Isolations
Direct application: improvisation
Mime illusions: articulated action
Slow motion
4. PARTNERING
The arc and the exercises
group 1: weight and counterbalance
group 2: weight support (skeleton)
group 3: floor support
group 4: lifts
5. CONTACT IMPROVISATION: practice and scene study
Preliminary improvisation
Contact improvisation
Contact improvisation with text
Contact Improvisation with a scene
6. CONTACT INTO REALISM
Contemporary comedy in contact
Contemporary comedy: out of contact into realism
Monologues in contact
Monologues: out of contact into realism
7. DEVISING
Movement theater creation
Preliminary Exercises
Structural elements
The guidelines
Critique
Devising with a group- CounterBalance Theater examples
Index