Notes from an Odin actress stones of water / Julia Varley.
| Author/creator | Varley, Julia, 1954- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Routledge, |
| Description | xiv, 188 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Pietre d'acqua. English |
| Portion of title | Stones of water |
| Contents | Introduction -- Dancing history. First steps -- Becoming an actress -- Odin Teatret -- Teachers -- The dramaturgy of the actress -- Personal terminology. The echo of silence -- Stage presence -- Pursuing oppositions -- Rodin's torsos -- Precision and decision: the whole body -- Precision and decision: the whole voice -- Training. Aspects of training -- My own training -- The purpose of training -- Reduction -- Improvisation and composition. The creation of material -- Stimuli, strategies and procedures -- Repetition, memory, fixing -- Before, during and after improvisation -- Elaboration: from the actress's point of view -- Elaboration: from the director's point of view -- Score and subscore. A useful but wrong word -- The paper song -- Thought -- The subscore of creation -- Chaotic order -- The subscore of repetition -- The subscore of performance -- Text and subtext. Textual interpretation -- Textual analysis -- Physical actions as subtext -- Vocal actions as subtext -- Melodies and music as subtext -- The character. Identities -- Mr Peanut -- Do; a musica -- Dramaturgy according to Daedalus -- The puppet character -- The director -- Meeting a director -- Working with a director -- The surgeon and the mountaineer -- The peasant and the cook -- The performance. Replica and difference -- Faces, words, landscapes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010006455 |
| ISBN | 9780415586283 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780415586290 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780203847046 (e-book) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |