The Laban Workbook for Actors

Name: The Laban Workbook for Actors
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781474220675
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A Practical Training Guide with Video

By Katya Bloom and Barbara Adrian and Tom Casciero and Jennifer Mizenko and Claire Porter

Series: Theatre Arts Workbooks

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The Laban Workbook for Actors is a comprehensive guide inspired by Rudolf Laban's movement theories. Crafted by five expert movement specialists, it offers single-authored chapters combining insightful essays with practical exercises. The book focuses on enhancing bodily and vocal expressivity, clarifying physical storytelling to embody playwrights’ intentions, and unlocking imaginative approaches to both scripted and devised theatre.
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Ideal for actors, drama teachers, directors and choreographers seeking to deepen their movement work and theatrical creativity through practical exercises and theory.

Description

The Laban Workbook is a compendium of unique exercises inspired by the concepts and principles of movement theorist and artist, Rudolf Laban.

Written by five internationally recognised movement experts, this textbook is divided into single-authored chapters, each of which includes a short contextual essay followed by a series of insight-bearing exercises. These expert views, honed in the creation of individual approaches to training and coaching actors, provide a versatile range of theory and practice in the creative process of crafting theatre.

Readers will learn:

Enhanced expressivity of body and voice;
Clearer storytelling, both physical and vocal, facilitating the embodiment of playwrights’ intentions;
Imaginative possibilities for exploring an existing play or for creating devised theatre.

Featuring many exercises exploring the application of Laban Movement Studies to text, character, scene work, and devised performances - as well as revealing the creative potential of the body itself - The Laban Workbook is ideal for actors, teachers, directors and choreographers.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781474220675

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 November 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Methuen Drama

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 137.0mm

Height: 211.0mm

Weight: 420g

Pages: 296

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Arts & Culture Barbara Adrian Claire Porter Jennifer Mizenko Katya Bloom Non-Fiction Series: Theatre Arts Workbooks Tom Casciero

About the Author

Katya Bloom, PhD, taught Laban on the core acting course at RADA in London, 1989 to 2009. Author of The Embodied Self, and co-author of Moves, she is based in the USA.

Barbara Adrian is Professor of Theatre Arts at Marymount Manhattan College, NY, USA. She is author of Actor Training the Laban Way.

Tom Casciero, PhD, is Theatre Professor at Towson University, MD, USA.

Jennifer Mizenko is Professor of Dance and Movement for the Actor at the University of Mississippi, USA.

Claire Porter is a freelance Movement specialist, performer and director. She teaches at NYU, and internationally, and is based in the USA.

The Laban Workbook for Actors