Creating physical theater : the body in performance. Workshop examples.

• Forced Entertainment (Theatre company)
• Acting -- Technique.
• Movement (Acting)

• Insight Media,

• DVD : sd., col.
• Streaming video file (52 min.) sd., col.

• unitube
• Features interviews, live footage, and workshops with such leading physical theatre companies as Stan Won't Dance, Goat Island and Forced Entertainment. Presents ideas, strategies, and methods for adding physical dimensions to performance. It traces the history and bases of physical action, considering the influences of Artaud, Stanislavski, and Brecht; offers games and techniques that free the body and generate physical action; explores the relationship between text and action; covers choreographing and scoring physical action; and shows how to use physical theatre in the classroom. This disc contains abstracts from movement workshops, as well as an example of General Certificate of Secondary Education student work.
• This recording is to be used only for educational and non-commercial purposes under the terms of the ERA Licence.

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