Synopses & Reviews
Containing over 650 photographs and diagrams, this lavishly illustrated and entirely original sourcebook on Western and non-Western theatre is an inspiring tribute to the secret art of the performer.
Revised and updated with fifty new photographs of the performers? craft, bibliography and index, and three new chapters on:
- Eurasion Theatre
- Exercises
- Organicity.
The Dictionary focuses on the craft of an actor and aims to expand our knowledge of the possibilities of the scenic body, and of the spectator's response to the dynamics of performance.
It includes practical sections on balance, opposition and energy, and discusses such issues as, The Text and the Stage, The Dilated Body, and Energetic Language.
The visual essay of photographs, drawings and diagrams which runs parallel to the text is skilfully constructed to complement the textual argument and the whole Dictionary is vital reading for students of contemporary theatre theory.
Synopsis
What constitutes dramatic performance? Is it make-up, set, intention? Juxtaposing the performer's craft as it is understood in the Occident and Orient--in the context of plays, combat, religion and ritual--A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology elucidates the nature of dramatic action and the actor's craft by examining the dramatic event cross-culturally.
The result of ten years' research, The Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology include practical discussions of balance, opposition, and montage among other techniques, and addresses such issues as The Text and the Stage, The Dilated Body, and Energetic Language. Lavishly illustrated with photographic essays as well as drawings and diagrams, this sourcebook on global theatre is an inspiring tribute to the secret art of the performer.
Description
Includes bibliographical references.