Abstract
The actor’s primary resource is the body. It has to be fit, flexible and capable of a great range of expressive movement. Everything that the actor communicates is expressed through the body, through the conscious and unconscious tensing and relaxing of the musculature, which controls posture, gesture, movement and vocal expression. It follows that, if the body is inappropriately tense, the channels of communication will be interfered with, or blocked altogether.
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Clive Barker, Theatre Games: A New Approach to Drama Training ( London: Methuen, 1977 ) p. 68.
Jacques Lecoq, interviewed by J. Hiley, ‘Moving Heaven and Earth’, Observer, 20 March 1988, p. 40.
Constantin Stanislaysky, An Actor Prepares, trans. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood (London: Geoffrey Bles, 1937 ) p. 78.
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Frost, A., Yarrow, R. (1989). Preparation. In: Improvisation in Drama. New Directions in Theatre. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20948-4_5
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