Arthur Lessac's Embodied Actor Training

<p>This book situates the work of the renowned voice and movement trainer Arthur Lessac in the context of contemporary actor training as a whole. </p><p>Melissa Hurt uses Maurice Merleau-Ponty's theories of embodiment to frame Lessac's approach in terms of Embodied Acting a key subject in contemporary performance. In doing so she explains how the actor can come to experience both technique and expression as a subjective whole through meditation and spatial attunement.</p><p>As well as feeding this somatic approach into a wider discussion of embodiment the author provides concrete examples of how the practice can be put into effect and studied at university level.</p>