Description for Body Speaks
Paperback. 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. Series: Performance Books. Num Pages: 256 pages, N/A. BIC Classification: ANC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 246. Performance and Physical Expression. Series: Performance Books. 256 pages, N/A. 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. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: ANC. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight: 282.
'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 ... Read more
'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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Methuen Drama
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Performance Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408106822
SKU
V9781408106822
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Lorna Marshall
Lorna Marshall has taught physical acting to everyone from ballet dancers, classical actors and oper a singers to performance artists and circus acts. She has worked with companies such as Shared Exper ience, the Royal National Theatre, Theatre de Complicite and the Consort of Musicke. She runs intern ational workshops and currently teaches at RADA. ... Read more
Reviews for Body Speaks
' A useful book for a postgrad student studying performance technique for the first time ' The Stage (March 2009)