Through the Body

A Practical Guide to Physical Theatre

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by Dymphna Callery

Routledge

Due/Published May 2002, 256 pages, paper

ISBN 0878301240

Physical Theater is emerging as a vibrant, influential and increasingly popular approach to theater performance.
In Through the Body, Dymphna Callery introduces the reader to the principles behind the work of key practitioners of 20th-century theater including Artaud, Grotowski, Brook and Lecoq. She offers exercises that turn their theories into practice and explore their principles in action.
This book takes the form of a series of workshops that include:
Preparation of the Body
Mask-work
Presence
Complicite
Sound
E-motion
Through the Body also includes a thorough bibliography and a contact list of training courses.

Contents

Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Section I: Preparing the Body. Section II: Unmasking the Actor. Section III: The Playful Body. Section IV: The Sentient Body. Section V: Devising. Section VI: The Physical Text. Appendix. Endnotes. Bibliography. Index.