Inside The Performance Workshop: A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises

Inside The Performance Workshop

A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises
 
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Publisher: Routledge
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ISBN13:9781138680012
ISBN10:113868001X
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:324 pages
Size:234x156 mm
Weight:757 g
Language:English
Illustrations: 49 Illustrations, color; 49 Halftones, color
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Inside The Performance Workshop is the first full-length volume dedicated to the history, theory, practice, and application of a suite of performer training exercises developed by Richard Schechner and elaborated by the editors and contributors.

Long description:

Inside The Performance Workshop: A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises is the first full-length volume dedicated to the history, theory, practice, and application of a suite of performer training exercises developed by Richard Schechner and elaborated on by the editors and contributors of this book. This work began in the 1960s with The Performance Group and has continued to evolve.


Rasaboxes?a featured set of exercises?is an interdisciplinary approach for training emotional expressivity through the use of breath, body, voice, movement, and sensation. It brings together:



  • the concept of rasa from classical Indian performance theory and practice

  • research on emotion from neuroscience and psychology

  • experimental and experiential performance practices

  • theories of ritual, play, and performance

This book combines both practical ?how-to? guidance and applications from diverse contexts including undergraduate and graduate actor training, television acting, K-12 education, devising, and drama therapy. The book serves as an introduction to the work as well as an essential resource for experienced practitioners.

Table of Contents:

Part I: History and Theory


1. Richard Schechner and Origins of The Performance Workshop 


Cobina Gillitt and Michele Minnick


2. What is Rasa?


Shanti Pillai


3. Rasaesthetics


Richard Schechner


Part II: Practice


4. Inside The Performance Workshop


Paula Murray Cole, Michele Minnick, and Rachel Bowditch


Part III: Facilitating The Performance Workshop


5. Principles of The Performance Workshop: An Interview with Richard Schechner


With Paula Murray Cole, Michele Minnick, and Rachel Bowditch


6. The Unavoidable Guru: Roles of The Performance Workshop Leader


Scott Wallin


Part IV: Notes from the Field


7. Freeing Emotional Expression in Young Performers: Rasaboxes in K-12 Context


Elise Forier Edie


8. Psychophysical Preparation for the Rasaboxes with Strasberg and Stanislavski


Ursula Neuerburg


9. Adapting Rasaboxes to Rasa?Therapy: Clinical Applications in Drama Therapy


Andrew M. Gaines


10. Rasaboxes, Drama Therapy, and Stability Through Dynamic Change: A Case Study


Dana Arie


11. Rasaboxes in the Training of Drama Therapists


Nisha Sajnani


12. Dancing on the Tongue


Erin B. Mee


13. Lights, Camera, Action! Rasaboxes Training and Coaching for Brazilian Telenovelas


Fernanda Guimar?es


14. Character Building Through Rasaboxes: Staging Electra at Teatro Prometeo


Fernando Calzadilla


15. Experimenting with the Clown in Rasaboxes


Ana Achcar


16. Dramaturgy of the Emotions: The Performance Workshop and Rasaboxes in Directing Machinal


Rachel Bowditch