Improvisation the Michael Chekhov Way
eBook - ePub

Improvisation the Michael Chekhov Way

Active Exploration of Acting Techniques

  1. 206 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Improvisation the Michael Chekhov Way

Active Exploration of Acting Techniques

About this book

Improvisation the Michael Chekhov Way: Active Exploration of Acting Techniques provides readers with dozens of improvisational exercises based on the acting techniques of Michael Chekhov.

The book features key exercises that will help the actor explore improvisation and expand their imagination through the technique. Exercises that have been successfully taught for decades via the intensive trainings from the National Michael Chekhov Association are now clearly laid out in this book, along with information on how these performance-based techniques can be applied to a script and even provide life benefits. Guidance on how to use the exercises both in a group setting and as an individual is provided, as well as tools for lesson plans for up to a year of actor training. These step-by-step exercises will allow readers to expand their range of expression, discover the joy of creating unique characters, improve stage presence and presentation skills, and find new, creative ways to look at life.

Improvisation the Michael Chekhov Way is written to be used by individual actors and practitioners as well as in group settings such as acting or improvisation courses, and to benefit anyone wishing to enhance their creativity and imagination.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND DEDICATIONS
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. 1 EXPANSION/CONTRACTION: THE PULSE OF LIFE
  9. 2 THE FOUR BROTHERS OF ART: EASE, BEAUTY, FORM, AND WHOLENESS/ENTIRETY
  10. 3 QUALITIES OF MOVEMENT: MOLDING, FLOWING, FLYING, AND RADIATING
  11. 4 ARCHETYPAL GESTURES
  12. 5 RADIATING AND RECEIVING
  13. 6 THE THREE SISTER SENSATIONS: BALANCING, FALLING, FLOATING
  14. 7 QUALITIES AND SENSATIONS
  15. 8 MOVEABLE CENTERS
  16. 9 THE IMAGINARY BODY
  17. 10 COSTUME CHARACTERS
  18. 11 THINKING, FEELING, AND WILLING: THE TRINITY OF THE PSYCHOLOGY
  19. 12 ATMOSPHERES
  20. 13 TEMPO AND RHYTHM
  21. 14 FOCAL POINTS
  22. 15 PSYCHOLOGICAL GESTURE
  23. INDEX