Developing a Physical Vocabulary for the Contemporary Actor

Abstract

One of the distinguishing qualities of live theatre is its built-in ephemerality: yet all too often this involves the loss not only of the fruits of theatrical experience but of ‘experience’ itself, understood as the learning of craft – and this puts experimental companies and practitioners alike in danger of constantly reinventing the wheel. Connecting this to the needs of serious performers to acquire a wide range of expressive movements, and to explore the process of relating these movements to thoughts and feelings, Lea Logie discusses both common elements and contrasting approaches in the work of some of the great European practitioners, whose insights are too valuable to be forgotten or consigned to scholarly archives. Lea Logie is a tutor in Theatre and Drama Studies at Murdoch University, Western Australia, where she specializes in cross-cultural studies of Asian and western theatre.

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