Training the Actor's Body - by Dick McCaw (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Training the Actor's Body is a practical guide to principles of learning movement for students of acting and performance. It addresses the actor's work from a movement perspective, integrating recent research into how humans move, explaining how discoveries about the neural system can help us use our bodies with greater intelligence and effectiveness. Building on the earlier research of Laban and Moshe Feldenkrais, the book offers readers an illustrated guide of how the body and brain work together, answering basic questions about how it is we function. Including games, exercises and experiments to help readers understand how they can use their physical structure more effectively, Training the Actor's Body is supported by online video examples and includes: summaries of main points at the end of each chapter, links to key practitioners or schools in the field of movement training, a glossary of key neurophysiological terms with explanatory diagrams and a bibliography of relevant literature on neurophysiology"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>A practical guide to the principles of teaching and learning movement, this book instructs the actor on how to train the body to become a medium of expression. Starting with a break-down of the principles of actor training through exercises and theatre games, Dick McCaw teaches the actor about their own body and its possibilities including: the different ways it can move, the space it occupies and finally its rhythm, timing and pacing. <br/>With 64 exercises supported by diagrams and online video, Dick McCaw draws on his 20 years of teaching experience to coach the reader in the dynamics of movement education to achieve a responsive and articulate body.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>In this important and timely book, Dick McCaw [defines] the special nature of the actor's expressive instrument and how it can - or should - be trained...<i> </i>[he] delves into the complex issue of "training for actors," and indeed "what is an actor?", through a wide-ranging, fully documented, meticulously referenced, cross-discipline and, in the end, quite fearless, investigation.<br/>David Zinder, Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University, Israel<br><br>Based on his international pursuit of actor training, and expansive research in contemporary movement practice, Dick McCaw presents exercises, supporting theory and his own informed overview, with thoroughness and playful accessibility. A wonderful and deeply explored guide book to the actor's physical potential.<br/>Professor Annie Loui, Clare Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, USA<br><br>This absorbing, useful and accessible book draws on a career of dedicated practice and theoretical research. McCaw's personal approach explores the puzzling process of actor training and offers a valuable collection of training exercises. As a former student of McCaw's, the book transported me back to the joy and challenge of his classroom: a place of possibility and experimentation. I still use what I learnt there in my work with actors today. This is a must-read text for all practitioners, directors, actor trainers, performers and students who use games and exercises in their work.<br/>Poppy Corbett, Playwright, UK<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Dick McCaw</b> is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Widely published, he is author of <i>Bakhtin and Theatre: Dialogues with Stanislavsky, Meyerhold and Grotowski</i> and editor of <i>W</i><i>ith an Eye for Movement </i>and <i>The</i> <i>Laban Sourcebook. </i>In addition, he is a qualified Feldenkrais practitioner, a Tai Chi instructor and was Director of the International Workshop Festival (1992 - 2001). He has taught in Britain, Europe and North America.
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