[PDF] An Acrobat Of The Heart eBook

Author : Stephen Wangh
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 2010-05-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0307554139

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Courageous and compelling, an invaluable resource for actors, directors, and teachers that can open a pathway to inner creativity. "The actor will do, in public, what is considered impossible." When the renowned Polish director Jerzy Grotowski began his 1967 American workshop with these words, his students were stunned. But within four weeks they themselves had experienced the "impossible." In An Acrobat of the Heart, teacher-director-playwright Stephen Wangh draws on Grotowski's insights and on the work of Stanislavski, Uta Hagen, and others to bridge the gap between rigorous physical training and practical scene and character technique. Wangh's students give candid descriptions of their struggles and breakthroughs, demonstrating how to transform these remarkable lessons into a personal journey of artistic growth.

Author : Stephen Wangh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415644917

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Teaching Questions is a book about teaching and learning in the performing arts. Its focus is on the inner dynamics of teaching: the processes by which teachers can promote - or undermine - creativity itself. It covers the many issues that teachers, directors and choreographers experience, from the frustrations of dealing with silent students, and helping young artists 'unlearn' their inhibitions, to problems of resistance, judgment and race in the classroom. Teaching Questions speaks to experienced teachers and beginning teachers in all disciplines, bringing essential insight and honesty to the discussion of how to teach.

Author : Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 17,3 MB
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1939810809

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A deeply humane new collection by a luminary of Bengali literature A radiant collection of poetry about womanhood, intimacy, and the body politic that together evokes the arc of an ordinary life. Nabaneeta Dev Sen's rhythmic lines explore the joys and agonies of first love, childbirth, and decay with a restless, tactile imagination, both picking apart and celebrating the rituals that make us human. When she warns, "know that blood can be easily drawn by lips," her words tune to the fierce and biting depths of language, to the "treachery that lingers on tongue tips." At once compassionate and unsparing, conversational and symphonic, these poems tell of a rope shivering beneath an acrobat's nimble feet or of a twisted, blood-soaked umbilical cord -- they pluck the invisible threads that bind us together.

Author : Thomas Richards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1134802447

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`I consider this book a precious report that permits one to assimilate some of those simple and basic principles which the self-taught at times come to know, yet only after years of groping and errors. The book furnishes information regarding discoveries which the actor can understand in practice, without having to start each time from zero. Thomas Richards has worked with me systematically since 1985. Today he is my essential collaborator in the research dedicated to Art as Vehicle.' - from the Preface by Jerzy Grotowski

Author : Susanna Tamaro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 24,49 MB
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1786072831

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INCLUDES SPECIALLY COMMISSIONED LINE DRAWINGS Little Tiger is not like other tigers. Not content to spend her days alone, roaming the snow forests of Siberia hunting prey, she prefers instead to ponder the ways of the world. One day, eager to discover her own place within it, she sets out on a remarkable journey to discover the secret of life, and to meet the creatures she has heard most about: humans. A moving tale of bravery and spirit, The Tiger and the Acrobat is a celebration of the power of friendship, and a testament to the courage it takes to be true to ourselves. 'This book is a beaut.' Cecelia Ahern, author of P.S. I Love You

Author : Moni Yakim
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781557831613

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Actor and mime artist Moni Yakim reveals his time-tested techniques and step-by-step exercises for physically evoking a character. Beginning with a chapter on looking inward, Yakim gives exercises on discovering aspects of one's own character. Then he teaches the actor how to identify with qualities outside the self. Finally, he shows how to apply these techniques to 12 classical theatrical roles.

Author : Paul Binnerts
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,84 MB
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0472035037

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A new theory of acting that tears down the theatrical "Fourth Wall"

Author : Jerzy Grotowski
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Acting
ISBN : 9780416146301

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Articles by Jerzy Grotowski, interviews with him and other supplementary material presenting his method and training.

Author : Reinhard Friedl
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1743821530

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The heart is our most important organ and perhaps our most mysterious. Every day it pumps 9000 litres of blood and beats around 100,000 times. But the heart is more than just a pump. In all major human cultures, it is seen as the source of love, sympathy, joy, courage, strength and wisdom. Why is this so? Having witnessed the extraordinary complexity and unpredictability of human hearts in the operating theatre – each one individual in its make-up, like a fingerprint – heart surgeon Reinhard Friedl went on a search for answers. He examined closely the latest findings in neurocardiology and psychocardiology, and in The Beat of Life he shares his discoveries. In the tradition of Giulia Enders’ Gut and Norman Doidge’s The Brain That Changes Itself, he uses riveting personal stories to illustrate the complex relationship between the heart, the brain and the psyche. The Beat of Life ends with a plea: that we recognise the heart’s wisdom and adopt a more heart-centred way of living, which will lead to greater health.

Author : Duncan Wall
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 18,13 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0307472264

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A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year When Duncan Wall visited his first nouveau cirque as a college student in Paris, everything about it—the monochromatic costumes, the acrobats singing Simon and Garfunkel, the juggler reciting Proust—hooked him. Soon he was attending circuses two or three nights a week, and soon after that, he entered the intensively competitive training program at France’s École Nationale des Arts du Cirque. The Ordinary Acrobat is a magical, funny, sometimes scary story of what happens when one average American joins a host of gifted—and flexible—international students in a rigorous regimen of tumbling, trapeze, juggling, and clowning. Brimming with surprises, outsized personalities, and plenty of charm, this personal history of how the circus evolved into the thrilling experience it is today delivers all the excitement and pleasure of the circus ring itself.