The Physical Actor

Contact Improvisation from Studio to Stage

Annie Loui (University of California, Irvine, USA)

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Routledge
16 October 2018

Acting techniques

The Physical Actor is a comprehensive book of exercises for actors. It is carefully designed for the development of a strong and flexible physical body able to move with ease through space and interact instinctively on-stage. Annie Loui draws on her training with Etienne Decroux, Carolyn Carlson, and Jerzy Grotowski to bring Contact Improvisation into the theatrical sphere. She explains how it can be used to develop alert and embodied listening skills in the actor, and how to apply it to working with texts on stage.

This book will guide the reader through a full course of movement skills, including:

Partnering skills

Spatial awareness for groups and individuals

Fine motor control through mime

Heightened co-ordination and sustained motion

New for this edition are additional partnering exercises, in-depth applications of contact improvisation to monologues and scenes, and a chapter on devising physical theatre performances.

By: Annie Loui (University of California Irvine USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138291843
ISBN 10: 1138291846
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 16 October 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION 1. WARM-UP AND ALIGNMENT What we do and how we approach it Warm-up sequence 2. SPACE Spatial exercises 3. MIME Alignment Isolations Direct application: improvisation Mime illusions: articulated action Slow motion 4. PARTNERING The arc and the exercises group 1: weight and counterbalance group 2: weight support (skeleton) group 3: floor support group 4: lifts 5. CONTACT IMPROVISATION: practice and scene study Preliminary improvisation Contact improvisation Contact improvisation with text Contact Improvisation with a scene 6. CONTACT INTO REALISM Contemporary comedy in contact Contemporary comedy: out of contact into realism Monologues in contact Monologues: out of contact into realism 7. DEVISING Movement theater creation Preliminary Exercises Structural elements The guidelines Critique Devising with a group- CounterBalance Theater examples Index

Annie Loui works as a director/choreographer, and is the Artistic Director of Counter-Balance Theater. Her original physical theater pieces have been seen in France, Monaco, West Germany, Italy, and the United States. She runs the Movement Program for MFA Actor Training at the University of California, Irvine.