Korean Approach to Actor Training

<p><em>A Korean Approach to Actor Training</em> develops a vital intercultural method of performer training introducing Korean and more broadly East Asian discourses into contemporary training and acting practice.</p><p>This volume examines the psychophysical nature of a performer’s creative process applying <i>Dahnhak</i> a form of Korean meditation and its central principle of <i>ki</i>-energy to the processes and dramaturgies of acting. A practitioner as well as a scholar Jeungsook Yoo draws upon her own experiences of training and performing addressing productions including <i>Bald Soprano </i>(2004) <i>Water Station</i> (2004) and <i>Playing ‘The Maids’ </i>(2013–2015).</p><p>A significant contribution to contemporary acting theory <i>A Korean Approach to Actor Training </i>provides a fresh outlook on performer training which will be invaluable to scholars and practitioners alike.</p>