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Embodied Acting - What Neuroscience Tells Us About Performance (Paperback, New)
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Embodied Acting - What Neuroscience Tells Us About Performance (Paperback, New)
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'A focus on the body, its actions, and its cognitive mechanisms
identifies ... foundational principles of activity that link the
three elements of theatre; Story, Space, and Time. The three meet
in, are defined by, and expressed through the actor's body.' - from
the Introduction Embodied Acting is an essential, pragmatic
intervention in the study of how recent discoveries within
cognitive science can - and should - be applied to performance. For
too long, a conceptual separation of mind and body has dominated
actor training in the West. Cognitive science has shown this binary
to be illusory, shattering the traditional boundaries between mind
and body, reason and emotion, knowledge and imagination. This
revolutionary new volume explores the impact that a more holistic
approach to the "bodymind" can have on the acting process. Drawing
on his experience as an actor, director and scholar, Rick Kemp
interrogates the key cognitive activities involved in performance,
including: non-verbal communication the relationship between
thought, speech, and gesture the relationship between self and
character empathy, imagination, and emotion. New perspectives on
the work of Stanislavski, Michael Chekhov, and Jacques Lecoq - as
well as contemporary practitioners including Daniel Day-Lewis and
Katie Mitchell - are explored through practical exercises and
accessible explanations. Blending theory, practice, and
cutting-edge neuroscience, Kemp presents a radical re-examination
of the unconscious activities engaged in creating, and presenting,
a role.
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