Your Body Knows

Name: Your Body Knows
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780367258818
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A Movement Guide for Actors

By Meade Andrews, PhD and Jana Tift, MFA and Jana Tift and Meade Andrews

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Your Body Knows is a practical guide designed to help actors move with ease and power. It begins with understanding and experiencing how your body works, drawing on techniques from F.M. Alexander, Rudolf Laban, and Michael Chekhov. The book explores three key areas: reliable body knowledge to free movement and prevent injury, fundamental movement principles to enhance artistic expression, and creative inspiration to connect body, mind, and imagination for authentic character portrayal.
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This book is ideal for acting students, educators, and professional actors seeking to deepen their movement skills and onstage presence through foundational physical awareness and creative expression.

Your Body Knows provides the foundation actors need to move with ease and power. It is a practical guide to movement starting at the very beginning: knowing your body and experiencing how it works.

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Your Body Knows provides the foundation actors need to move with ease and power. It is a practical guide to movement starting at the very beginning: knowing your body and experiencing how it works.

Through the work of F.M. Alexander, Rudolf Laban, and Michael Chekhov, this book offers basic training in movement fundamentals. Its step-by-step process supports the actor's work in any acting or movement training programme and as a working professional. The book focuses on three main areas of exploration:

Body facts – Know your body and its design for movement. Let go of misinformed ideas about your body. Move more freely, avoid injury, and develop a strong body-mind connection.
Movement facts – What is movement? Discover the movement fundamentals that can serve your art. Explore new ways of moving.
Creative inspiration – Connect your body, mind, and imagination to liberate authentic and expressive character movement.

Your Body Knows: A Movement Guide for Actors is an excellent resource for acting students and their teachers, promoting a strong onstage presence and awakening unlimited potential for creative expression.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367258818

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 24 February 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 61 Line drawings, black and white; 61 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 1040g

Pages: 410

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Arts & Culture Jana Tift Jana Tift, MFA Meade Andrews Meade Andrews, PhD Non-Fiction

About the Author

Meade Andrews, PhD, is an internationally recognized, senior teacher of the Alexander Technique. She is a certified member of the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSat) and Alexander Technique International (ATI). She teaches Movement for Actors to students and professionals, and has served as a movement coach for over 40 theatrical productions. She is a certified teacher of the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique and has also done an extensive study of the work of Rudolf Laban and Irmgard Bartenieff with Carol Boggs, CMA. Former director of the Dance Program at American University in Washington, DC, Meade also taught at the Studio Theatre in Washington, DC for 20 years, offering classes in acting, improvisation, and Alexander Technique. With her colleague, Jeanne Feeney, she won the Helen Hayes Award for choreographing the Studio Theatre’s 30th anniversary revival of HAIR. She currently teaches and coaches performers at Rider University, and the Westminster Choir College, located in Princeton, NJ. She has taught numerous workshops in the Alexander Technique for actors, dancers, singers, and musicians throughout the US, Europe, and Asia.

Jana Tift, MFA, has taught movement for actors in academic and professional settings for over 20 years. Certified to teach the Alexander Technique, the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique, and Amrit Yoga, she has led workshops and coached actors and singers throughout the US and abroad. Ms. Tift taught movement in the graduate Acting program at Florida Atlantic University for ten years. She also served on the faculty at New World School of the Arts. A student of Rudolf Laban’s work for many years, Ms. Tift is a founding member of the Labanites of South Florida, a collective of movement specialists dedicated to the study and promotion of Laban’s work. An award-winning director, she has been a Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Artist-in-Residence at Hendrix College and an artist-in-residence at The Ragdale Foundation. She is a teaching member of Alexander Technique International (ATI) and a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Ms. Tift holds an MFA in Theatre from Florida State University.