Objectives, obstacles, and tactics in practice : perspectives on activating the actor /

"Objectives, Obstacles, and Tactics in Practice is the first book that compiles practical approaches of the best practices from a range of practitioners on the subject of working with Stanislavski's 'objectives', 'obstacles' and 'tactics"' The book offers...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pye, Valerie Clayman (Editor), Bucs, Hillary Haft (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
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Table of Contents:
  • Money in your pocket : Meisner, objectives, and the first six lines / Dennis Schebetta
  • Psychological gesture : Michael Chekhov exercises on physicalizing the objective / Anjalee Deshpande Hutchinson
  • Making sport of objectives : teaching through student-developed physical competition / John Kaufmann
  • Structured improvised scenes / Timothy Johnson
  • Scoring the un-scorable / Maria Porter
  • Creating a physical score in a snap : using social media to appeal to the smartphone generation / Tom Pacio
  • Engaging obstacles / Kevin Hoffmann
  • Active obstacle image scoring / David Hugo
  • Resistance / Janet Hayatashi
  • Returning the dress : demonstrating objectives, obstacles, and tactics / Davida Bloom
  • Improvised fantasies : heightening objectives and obstacles in scene work / Hillary Bucs
  • Optimizing the obstacle : using indicators of Csikszentmihalyi's flow to help select, test, and experience Stanislavski's obstacles / Fabio Polanco and Diane Bonfiglio
  • The tag-tic that works / Lynn Deboeck
  • Improvising tactical choices based on status or "Who's driving the dramatic action bus?" / Jean Dobie Giebel
  • Transformational tactics : engaging students in the heroic pursuit of their objective / Kim Shivley
  • Hunter/hunted : experiential learning and the actor's craft / Valerie Clayman Pye
  • Tactics and action drives : Stanislavski Meets Laban / Conrad Alexandrowicz
  • Stanislavski in the voice studio / Deric McNish
  • Stimulating embodied tactical actions / Lesley-Ann Timlick
  • NRGs and the nature of action : the Lessac tactic circle / Caroline Good
  • Relaying action : from breath to text / Aaron Alpern and Rebecca Covey
  • Using improvisation to identify tactics / Nathan Stith
  • Activating the actor with game theory : using gamification to create playable tactics on stage / Jeanne Leep
  • Recording truth : the camera in acting training / Welker White.