The Lucid Body: A Guide for the Physical Actor

The Lucid Body: A Guide for the Physical Actor

The Lucid Body: A Guide for the Physical Actor

The Lucid Body: A Guide for the Physical Actor

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Overview

Actors! Engage your mind and your body in order to develop your characters fully. The Lucid Body technique breaks up stagnant movement patterns and expands your emotional and physical range. Through energy analysis, this program shows how to use physical training to create characters from all walks of life—however cruel, desolate, or neurotic those characters may be. Rooted in the exploration of the seven chakra energy centers, The Lucid Body reveals how each body holds the possibility of every human condition. Learn how to analyze the character, hear the inner body, dissect the self into layers of consciousness, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781581157550
Publisher: Allworth
Publication date: 06/29/2010
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Michael Howard has been a major force in American theater for more than seven decades. After studying with Sanford Meisner in the 1940s and Lee Strasberg in his private classes and in the Actors Studio in the 1950s, Howard enjoyed an acting career that led him to work with such American luminaries as Clifford Odets and Uta Hagen before moving on to direct and teach. He served as the first artistic director of Atlanta's Alliance Theater and later on the faculties of Julliard and Yale University. A teacher for more than fifty years in the studio he founded, Michael Howard Studios, he has been and continues to be a trainer of actors who have achieved international recognition.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

About the Second Edition ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction: The Lucid Body Defined xix

Section I Finding Center

Chapter 1 Nonjudgmental Mind 3

Chapter 2 The Audible Exhale 9

Chapter 3 Neutral Body 15

Chapter 4 Meditation 23

Section II Chakra Energy Centers

Chapter 5 What Is a Chakra? 31

Chapter 6 The Root 37

Chapter 7 The Sacral 49

Chapter 8 The Solar Plexus 61

Chapter 9 The Heart 73

Chapter 10 The Throat 87

Chapter 11 The Brow 101

Chapter 12 The Crown 115

Section III Energy Self-Analysis-Three Layers

Chapter 13 Taking Off the Armor 131

Chapter 14 Finding Your Persona 137

Chapter 15 Finding Your Shadow 147

Chapter 16 Finding the Child-Need 155

Section IV Physical Character Analysis

Chapter 17 Shape-Shifting: The Magic of Rearranging Energy 163

Chapter 18 Stage Intimacy 171

Chapter 19 Active Space 177

Chapter 20 Physical Listening 185

Chapter 21 Creating a Chakra Palette 189

Glossary 199

Bibliography 207

Index 211

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