The Body Speaks
Performance and physical expression
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:30th Oct '08
£24.99
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Practical instruction from a RADA expert Fresh new exercises, particularly for TV/film Tried and tested techniques, the book was written with feedback from students
Seventy percent of a conversation is conveyed through body language while only 10 percent is the meaning of the words. Here, an expert RADA trainer shows how to use our body so that it will speak more effectively and how to recognize and lose unwanted physical inhibitions.'Stimulating and intelligent' Yoshi Oida Seventy percent of everyday conversation is conveyed through body language, twenty percent is the voice and only ten percent is the meaning of the words. In The Body Speaks, expert RADA trainer Lorna Marshall, shows how to recognise and lose unwanted physical inhibitions that our background, education or family have taught us and presents a fundamental re-thinking of our relationship to the body and its role in performance. Good performers - be they trapeze artists, Shakespearean actors, Butoh dancers or film stars - are able to fully reach their audience and engage with them because they have learnt to use their bodies to its best effect. Through a series of practical exercises, Lorna Marshall encourages us to unleash our potential, discover new possibility for the body and express ourselves more clearly. This new edition has been fully revised to include the latest thinking on the subject and more exercises particularly for performers in TV and film.
' A useful book for a postgrad student studying performance technique for the first time ' The Stage (March 2009)
ISBN: 9781408106822
Dimensions: 216mm x 138mm x 18mm
Weight: 280g
256 pages
2nd edition