{"product_id":"the-expressive-actor-michael-lugering-9780325009636","title":"The Expressive Actor: Integrated Voice, Movement, and Acting Training","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Expressive Actor\u003c\/i\u003e is an innovative guide to training your body, mind, and spirit to deliver top-notch dramatic performances. Master teacher Michael Lugerings pioneering approach and smart exercises synthesize the traditionally disparate disciplines of acting, voice, and movement into one unified method by placing you in direct contact with the physical sensations that are responsible for expressing your bodys deepest, richest thoughts and feelings. Lugering leads you through a series of voice and body exercises and a companion set of improvisational studies. His full-body actors workout increases physical and vocal expressiveness by building the requisite dexterity, flexibility, strength, and freedom you need. Meanwhile the improvisations expand your emotional expressiveness by developing an awareness of and control over impulse, spontaneity, and creativity. The techniques in \u003ci\u003eThe Expressive Actor\u003c\/i\u003e are repeatable, ideal for daily preparation, and can be practiced alone or with others to keep the voice and body ready for the demands of rehearsal and performance. Part inspiration and part perspiration, Lugerings technique is thoroughly researched and brings together recent discoveries in philosophy, somatic psychology, neuroscience, and aesthetics to create a powerful new way to train your voice, your body, and your feelings. Physical, intuitive, and fundamental, \u003ci\u003eThe Expressive Actor \u003c\/i\u003ewill plumb your body for the same kinds of energy and information that highly intellectualized actor-training methods of the twentieth century pull from the brain, then show you how to join them to create spectacularly human performances. Whether you act Shakespeare or Simon, Wycherley or Wasserstein, Moliere or Mamet, train the total actor inside you with the ideas and etudes in \u003ci\u003eThe Expressive Actor\u003c\/i\u003e. Youll changeforever how you communicate with yourself, with other actors, and with your audience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Lugering\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0325009635\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780325009636\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Heinemann Drama\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/19\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.83h x 6.24w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2008 pg. 246","brand":"Michael Lugering","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946455105791,"sku":"9780325009636","price":26.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_d00b184f-f579-4855-b970-c5fd9d127251.jpg?v=1681513252","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-expressive-actor-michael-lugering-9780325009636","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}