Building embodiment : integrating acting, voice, and movement to illuminate poetic text / edited by Baron Kelly and Karen Kopryanski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kelly, Baron, editor.

Kopryanski, Karen, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Movement (Acting).

Voice culture.

Acting--Problems, exercises, etc.

Acting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 172 pages)

Other Title:

Integrating acting, voice, and movement to illuminate poetic text

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Baron Kelly is the Vilas Distinguished Professor in the Theatre and Drama Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a four-time Fulbright scholar and has traveled extensively as a cultural specialist for the United States Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs teaching and lecturing on the theatre in Russia, Scandinavia, Africa, Europe, London, and Asia. His teaching of acting has led him to teaching and lecturing residencies in more than a dozen countries on five continents. Karen Kopryanski is an Assistant Professor and the Head of Voice and Speech at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has coached more than 80 theatrical productions in the United States and spent ten years on the faculty of The Boston Conservatory. A 2003 graduate of the ART/MXAT Institute at Harvard University, she is also Reviews Editor for the Voice and Speech Review; an associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework; a recently appointed US Fulbright specialist; and has taught and led workshops in Russia, Italy, Canada, Singapore, Austria, and Turkey.

Contents:

<P>Part 1: Acting </P><P>1. The Natural Elements </P><I><P>Peter Allen Stone </P></I><P>2. Leading Center, Super Objective, and Style </P><I><P>Josh Chenard </P></I><P>3. Tackling Heightened Text</P><I><P>Miriam Mills</P></I><P>4. (3" x 5") x 40: A Journey to Embodiment</P><I><P>Louis Fantasia</P></I><P>5. The Words: Golden Keys to the Inner Life of the Character</P><I><P>Baron Kelly</P></I><P>6. Embodiment through Breath and the Voice</P><I><P>Josephine Hall</P></I><P>7. Playing the Persian Queen</P><I><P>Stratos E. Constantinidis</P></I><B><P>Part 2: Teaching</P></B><P>8. Sculpting & Imaging the Text: An Equitable and Inclusive Approach to Speaking Heightened Language</P><I><P>Peter Zazzali</P></I><P>9. The Sound in the Silence; the Movement in the Stillness: Discovering Embodiment in Presence</P><I><P>Karen Kopryanski and Peter Balkwill</P></I><P>10. Grace, Gravitas and Grounding

Approaching Greek Tragedy Through a New Translation of <I>Hecuba</P><P>Tamara Meneghini</P></I><P>11. Animating the Ancients: A Scaffolded Approach to Physicalizing Greek Theatre</P><I><P>Doreen Bechtol</P></I><P>12. Naughty, Bawdy Characters and Comedy of Manners</P><I><P>Candice Brown</P></I><P>13. "O, villain, villain, smiling, damned villain": <I>Hamlet</I> and the Rhetoric of Repetition</P><I><P>Matt Davies</P></I><P>14. Agamemnon's Homecoming: Using Active Analysis to Explore Ancient Theatre</P><I><P>Sharon Marie Carnicke</P></I>

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 14, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Building embodiment

ISBN:

9781003204060

1003204066

9781000896015

1000896013

9781000896039

100089603X

Publisher Number:

40031829347

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.