Through The Body: A Practical Guide to Physical Theatre

Through The Body: A Practical Guide to Physical Theatre

<div><p>A step-by-step guide to Physical Theatre in both theory and practice - full of detailed exercises and inspiring ideas.</p> <p>In <I>Through the Body</I>, based on twelve years of teaching physical theatre, Dymphna Callery introduces the reader to the principles behind the work of certain key 20th-century theatre practitioners (Artaud, Grotowski, Meyerhold, Brook and Lecoq, among others) and offers exercises by which their theories can be turned into practice and their principles explored in action.</p> <p>The book takes the form of a series of workshops starting with the preparation of the body through Awareness, Articulation, Energy and Neutrality. A section on Mask-work is followed by further work on the body, investigating Presence, Complicité, Play, Audience, Rhythm, Sound and E-motion.</p> <p>The book - and the work - culminates in sections on Devising and on the Physical Text. There is also a thorough bibliography and a contact list of training courses in the UK and abroad.</p></div>