Expressive Actor

<p>"The study of acting should not begin with an exploration of feeling, perception, imagination, memories, intention, personalization, self-identification... or even performance—but physical action."</p><p>Michael Lugering's <em>The Expressive Actor</em> presents a foundational, preparatory training method, using movement to unlock the entire acting process. Its action-based perspective integrates voice, movement and basic acting training into a unified approach. </p><p>A wealth of exercises and diagrams guide the reader through this internationally taught program, making it an ideal step-by-step course for both solo and classroom use. Through this course, voice and body training becomes more than a simple skill-building activity – it is the central prerequisite to any actor training. </p><p>This new Routledge edition has been fully updated, to include: </p><ul> <ul> <p> </p> <li>A revised prologue, further discussing the historical and philosophical grounding of The Lugering Method </li> <p> </p> <li>A new introduction, with particular focus on the integrative nature of the method and how the book should be used. </li> <p> </p> <li>New developments, clarifications, and 12 new exercises. </li> <p> </p> <li>6 new illustrative diagrams.</li> </ul> </ul> <p><strong>Part 1: Prologue </strong> 1. Introduction to the Method 2. Overview of the Method 3. Introduction to the Actor <strong>Part 2: Principles of Expressive Action </strong>4. Expressive Action 5. Expressive Action in Context 6. Architecture of an Expressive Action <strong>Part 3: Principles of Integration </strong>7. Integration <strong>Part 4: Stacking</strong> 8. Introduction to Stacking 9. Moving 10. Breathing 11. Sounding 12. Speaking 13. Extending the Barre <strong>Part 5: Technique </strong>14. Preliminaries 15. Voice and Body Exercises 16. Language and Character Exercise Epilogue Appendix I: Expressive Continuum Appendix II: Actions Bibliography</p>