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  title info:
    title: Acting and being
    sub title: explorations in embodied performance
  name:
    name part: Hess, Elizabeth
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: In this book, educator-actor-playwright-director Elizabeth Hess offers systematic and original explorations in performance technique. This hybrid approach is a fusion of physical theater modalities culled from Western practices (Psycho-physical actions, Viewpoints), Eastern practices (Butoh, Kundalini yoga) and related performance disciplines (Mask, Puppetry). Behavioral, physiological and psychological 'states of being' are engaged to unlock impulses, access experience and enlarge the imagination. Through individual, partnered and collective explorations, actors uncover a character's essence and level of consciousness, their energy center and body language, and their archetype and relationship to universal themes. Magic (to pretend, as if), Metaphor (to compare, as like) and Myth (to pattern after, as in) provide the foundation for generating transformative, empathetic and expansive artistic expression. Explorations can be adapted to character work, scene study and production, including original/devised work and established text, to illuminate singular and surprising work through collaborative creativity that is inventive, inclusive and alive.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- Part 1. States of Being -- Chapter 2. Behavioral States -- Chapter 3. Physiological States -- Chapter 4. Psychological States -- Part 2. Explorations in Embodied Performance -- Chapter 5. Behavioral Explorations -- Chapter 6. Physiological Explorations -- Chapter 7. Psychological Explorations -- Part 3. The Interplay of Acting & Being -- Chapter 8. Character Work -- Chapter 9. Scene Study -- Chapter 10. Production -- Chart: States of being.
  note: Elizabeth Hess.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-229) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Performance
  subject:
    topic: Performing arts
  subject:
    topic: Acting
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    topic: Dance
  subject:
    topic: Self
  subject:
    topic: Identity (Psychology)
  subject:
    topic: Culture
    topic: Study and teaching
  classification: PN2061 .H47 2016
  classification: 792.02/8
  identifier: 9781349951055
  identifier: 1349951056
  identifier: 9781349951062
  identifier: 2016956406
  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 160716
    record change date: 20170926113415.0
    record identifier: in00003849457