Embodied Acting
Embodied Acting 'A focus on the body, its actions, and its cognitive mechanisms identifies ... The three meet in, are defined by, and expressed through the actor's body.' - from the Introduction…
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Embodied Acting
'A focus on the body, its actions, and its cognitive mechanisms identifies ... The three meet in, are defined by, and expressed through the actor's body.' - from the Introduction Embodied Acting is an essential, pragmatic intervention in the study of how recent discoveries within cognitive science can - and should - be applied to performance. foundational principles of activity that link the three elements of theatre; Story, Space, and Time.
Cognitive science has shown this binary to be illusory, shattering the traditional boundaries between mind and body, reason and emotion, knowledge and imagination. For too long, a conceptual separation of mind and body has dominated actor training in the West. This revolutionary new volume explores the impact that a more holistic approach to the "bodymind" can have on the acting process.