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Inside the Performance Workshop - A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises

English · Hardback

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List of contents

Part I: History and Theory
1. Richard Schechner and Origins of The Performance Workshop
Cobina Gillitt and Michele Minnick
2. What is Rasa?
Shanti Pillai
3. Rasaesthetics
Richard Schechner
Part II: Practice
4. Inside The Performance Workshop
Paula Murray Cole, Michele Minnick, and Rachel Bowditch
Part III: Facilitating The Performance Workshop
5. Principles of The Performance Workshop: An Interview with Richard Schechner
With Paula Murray Cole, Michele Minnick, and Rachel Bowditch
6. The Unavoidable Guru: Roles of The Performance Workshop Leader
Scott Wallin
Part IV: Notes from the Field
7. Freeing Emotional Expression in Young Performers: Rasaboxes in K-12 Context
Elise Forier Edie
8. Psychophysical Preparation for the Rasaboxes with Strasberg and Stanislavski
Ursula Neuerburg
9. Adapting Rasaboxes to Rasa≈Therapy: Clinical Applications in Drama Therapy
Andrew M. Gaines
10. Rasaboxes, Drama Therapy, and Stability Through Dynamic Change: A Case Study
Dana Arie
11. Rasaboxes in the Training of Drama Therapists
Nisha Sajnani
12. Dancing on the Tongue
Erin B. Mee
13. Lights, Camera, Action! Rasaboxes Training and Coaching for Brazilian Telenovelas
Fernanda Guimarães
14. Character Building Through Rasaboxes: Staging Electra at Teatro Prometeo
Fernando Calzadilla
15. Experimenting with the Clown in Rasaboxes
Ana Achcar
16. Dramaturgy of the Emotions: The Performance Workshop and Rasaboxes in Directing Machinal
Rachel Bowditch

About the author

Rachel Bowditch, PhD, is Professor of Theatre in the School of Music, Dance, and Theatre at Arizona State University, USA, and a theatre director. Bowditch is author of On the Edge of Utopia: Performance and Ritual at Burning Man, Performing Utopia, and Physical Dramaturgy: Perspectives from the Field.
Paula Murray Cole, MFA, LMT, is Associate Professor of acting, voice, movement, and the Alexander Technique in the School of Music, Theatre and Dance at Ithaca College, USA. Cole acted in Schechner’s productions and has taught and developed Rasaboxes and The Performance Workshop (TPW) since 1999.
Michele Minnick, PhD, CMA, is an independent artist, scholar, and educator, whose current work focuses on the intersections of performance, somatic practice, social justice, and climate change. She is a core creator with Submersive Productions in Baltimore, MD, and the founder of Vital Matters.

Summary

Inside The Performance Workshop is the first full-length volume dedicated to the history, theory, practice, and application of a suite of performer training exercises developed by Richard Schechner and elaborated by the editors and contributors.

Product details

Authors Rachel Murray Cole Bowditch
Assisted by Rachel Bowditch (Editor), Bowditch Rachel (Editor), Michele Minnick (Editor), Paula Murray Cole (Editor)
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd.
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.05.2023
 
EAN 9781138680012
ISBN 978-1-138-68001-2
No. of pages 304
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology

ART / Performance, Performance Art

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