Why Do Actors Train?: Embodiment for Theatre Makers and Thinkers by Krumholz, Brad

Why Do Actors Train?: Embodiment for Theatre Makers and Thinkers (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350236967)

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Why Do Actors Train?: Embodiment for Theatre Makers and Thinkers by Krumholz, Brad

Why Do Actors Train?: Embodiment for Theatre Makers and Thinkers

$100.00
Why Do Actors Train?: Embodiment for Theatre Makers and Thinkers by Krumholz, Brad

Why Do Actors Train?: Embodiment for Theatre Makers and Thinkers

$100.00
Format: Hardcover
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How are we to understand the actor's work as a fully embodied process?

'Embodied cognition' is a branch of contemporary philosophy which attempts to frame human understanding as fully embodied interaction with the environment. Engaging with ideas of contemporary significance from neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, and philosophy, Why Do Actors Train? challenges the outmoded dualistic notions of body and mind that permeate common conceptions of how actors work. Theories of embodiment are drawn up to shed important light on the ways and reasons actors do what they do.

Through detailed, step-by-step analyses of specific actor-training exercises, the author examines the tools that actors use to bring life and meaning to the stage. This book provides theatre practitioners and scholars alike with a new lens to re-examine the craft of acting, offering a framework to understand the art form as one that is fundamentally grounded in embodied experience.

Author: Brad Krumholz
ISBN-10: 1350236969
ISBN-13: 9781350236967
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Language: English
Published: 02/23/2023
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
By Brad Krumholz
By Brad Krumholz
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Brad Krumholz is Assistant Professor and Head of Production for the Theatre Department at Hunter College, NY, USA. He is also Executive Artistic Director and Co-Founder of North American Cultural Laboratory (www.NACL.org). His recent publications include "The Problem of Movement Theatre" in Movement for Actors (Methuen Drama, 2013) and "Locating the Ensemble: NACL Theatre and the Ethics of Collaboration" in Encountering Ensemble (Methuen Drama, 2013).

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