Building Embodiment: Integrating Acting Voice and Movement to Illuminate Poetic Text offers a collection of strategic and practical approaches to understanding analyzing and embodying a range of heightened text styles including Greek tragedy Shakespeare and Restoration/comedy of manners. These essays offer insights from celebrated teachers across the disciplines of acting voice and movement and are designed to help actors and instructors find deeper vocal and physical connections to poetic text. Although each dramatic genre offers a unique set of challenges Building Embodiment highlights instances where techniques can be integrated revealing how the synthesis of body brain and word results in a fuller sense of character experiencing for both the actor and the audience. This book bridges the gap between academic and professional application and invites the student and professional actor into a richer experience of character and story. |Building Embodiment Integrating Acting Voice and Movement to Illuminate Poetic Text | Theatre and Performance
