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Improvisation the Michael Chekhov Way: Active Exploration of Acting Techniques provides readers with dozens of improvisational exercises based on the acting techniques of Michael Chekhov.
List of contents
1. Expansion/Contraction - The Pulse of Life 2. The Four Brothers of Art: Ease, Beauty, Form and Wholeness/Entirety 3. Qualities of Movement: Molding, Flowing, Flying, and Radiating 4. Archetypal Gestures 5. Radiating and Receiving 6. The Three Sister Sensations: Balancing, Falling, Floating 7. Qualities and Sensations 8. Moveable Centers 9. The Imaginary Body 10. Costume Characters 11. Thinking, Feeling, and Willing: The Trinity of the Psychology 12. Atmospheres 13. Tempo and Rhythm 14. Focal Points 15. Psychological Gesture
About the author
Wil Kilroy is the Department Head of Theatre Arts at New Mexico State University and an AEA, SAG-AFTRA actor. Kilroy is Co-Founder of the National Michael Chekhov Association, along with Lisa Dalton and the late Mala Powers, who was executrix of the Michael Chekhov Estate. Kilroy has utilized the acting techniques of Michael Chekhov for many decades world-wide as an actor, director, and teacher, and to uplift everyday life.
Summary
Improvisation the Michael Chekhov Way: Active Exploration of Acting Techniques provides readers with dozens of improvisational exercises based on the acting techniques of Michael Chekhov.
