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Jean-Louis Rodrigue and Scott Weintraub, highly regarded masters of theatre andfilm acting, join forces to share their craft in this book. They take young actors, as well asestablished professionals, through their disciplined and explicit instruction. The book contains explorations, exercises, and examples used in films and stage productions to illustrate their lessons. Their work is a vital and needed bridge between the training of artists in preparation and the current trends of the entertainment industry.Back to the Body: Infusing Physical Life into Characters in Theatre and Filmguides you to experience and use your body and its energy as a basic point ofdeparture for performance and expression. You will learn to apply your entire self inacting with your voice, body, mind, and emotion. This integrated training is designed tocombine all these elements of yourself with your material, the environment, and otheractors through explorations and hands-on work, which you may do on your own andwith others. You will discover how to best fill the space, serve the story, and create aunique, honest, and riveting character. When you implement the practices in Back to theBody, your work will gain an enhanced level of performance and depth.This book explores how actors can use their bodies, in concert with their voices andtheir emotions, in a range of roles and characters in both theatre and film. This way ofworking is not an abstraction, because our bodies always exist in relation to our emotions and environment.Every story is told primarily through the use and expression of the actor's body. Closeattention to physicality is essential to extraordinary performance, telling the story, anddealing with a character's conflicts in the most human way. The more the actor's bodyrelates to the story, the more the audience is able to connect to the play or the film,because overcoming conflicts is a universal and inevitable human necessity.

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🗸 Author(s): Jean-Louis Rodrigue,Scott Weintraub
🗸 Title: Back to the Body: Infusing Physical Life into Characters in Theatre and Film
🗸 Rating : 5 from 5 stars (21 reviews)
🗸 ISBN-10: B0C39MCM44
🗸 ISBN-13: 978B0C39MCM40
🗸 Languange: English
🗸 Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
🗸 Supported Devices: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle

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