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Notes from an Odin actress : stones of water
- Title
- Notes from an Odin actress : stones of water / Julia Varley.
- Author
- Varley, Julia, 1954-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 188 p. : ill., ports.; 25 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Pietre d'acqua. English
- Alternative Title
- Pietre d'acqua.
- Stones of water
- Subjects
- 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.
- Call Number
- MWES (Varley, J.) 10-6953
- ISBN
- 9780415586283 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 0415586283 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9780415586290 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0415586291 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010006455
- OCLC
- YBP 2010006455
- Author
- Varley, Julia, 1954-
- Title
- Notes from an Odin actress : stones of water / Julia Varley.
- Imprint
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.
- Research Call Number
- MWES (Varley, J.) 10-6953