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Book SynopsisDick McCaw is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He has edited two books,
With an Eye for Movement (2006) and
The Laban Sourcebook (2011) and is the author of
Bakhtin and Theatre (2015) and
Training the Actor's Body (Methuen Drama, 2017).
He is a qualified Feldenkrais practitioner.
Trade ReviewRethinking the Actor’s Body confronts us with the perspective to undertake the first steps towards something that in the long run could affect our understanding of not only the actor’s, but also the ‘ordinary’, everyday body. * Skenè: Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies *
This is an excellent book. ... with such excellent, succinct confirmations and revelations entirely backed up by his dialogues with science. It is indispensable in this regard. * National Drama *
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction
Part I – The Actor’s Bodies Chapter 1 – The Presence of the Actor’s Body Chapter 2 – The Energetic Body Chapter 3 – The Vital Body and the Bodily Instrument Chapter 4 – Body Topologies Chapter 5 – The Sense of a Body Chapter 6 – The Body Which Learns Chapter 7 – The Emotional Body Chapter 8 – The Biomechanical Body Chapter 9 – The Anatomical Body
Part II – The Actor’s Brain Chapter 10 - Front Brain/Back Brain Chapter Chapter 11 - Learning and Memory Chapter 12 - Imagining the Body Chapter 13 – The Relation between Sensory and Motor Nerves Chapter 14 – Stage Fright and Keeping Your Head Conclusion
