The Elemental Actor

How to Release Your Hidden Powers

Mel Churcher

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Nick Hern Books
04 May 2023

Acting techniques; Self-help & personal development

We are all a complex mixture of the elemental energies identified by many different cultures throughout history: Earth, Air, Fire, Water – and a fifth element called Quintessence or Spirit. As an actor, you need to be able to access each of them, so that you can draw on whichever element you need to bring your role fully into life.

In The Elemental Actor, Mel Churcher explores these deep, primal drives, and gives you practical tools to harness them to make your work more powerful and alive. Her unique approach combines elements of actor training, voice work and movement to increase your range and help you bring depth, specificity and intensity to your performance.

The book includes over one hundred games and exercises to help you explore each of the elements, incorporate this work into your practice, and apply it to the world of your role. There are also tips for preparing for auditions and dealing with performance anxiety, as well as advice on how to stay healthy in body, voice and mind.

Offering an everlasting palette that will enrich any performance, whether on stage or screen, The Elemental Actor will help you release the wellspring of your imagination, and put elemental power into your work.

Mel Churcher is an international acting, dialogue and voice coach who has worked with companies including the Royal National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe, Young Vic, Royal Court Theatre and Graeae Theatre Company. She is one of the top acting and dialogue coaches in TV and movies, and has worked with some of the biggest stars of stage and screen.

By: Mel Churcher
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 421g
ISBN: 9781848427891
ISBN 10: 1848427891
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 04 May 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mel Churcher was an actor and broadcaster for many years. She is now best known as an international acting, dialogue, voice and presentation coach and has run workshops and given lectures all over the world. She is one of the top acting and dialogue coaches in movies (see her entry on imdb for full details). She runs screen acting workshops for professional actors and regularly teaches in Cologne and Berlin and at the Actors Centre in London.

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The Elemental Actor

How to Release Your Hidden Powers

Mel Churcher

$39.99

Paperback

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