PHYSICAL ACTIONING
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THE BOOK

Exercises for Embodied Actors: Tools for Physical Actioning by Scott Illingworth is a comprehensive workbook for actors and teachers alike including over 50 innovative exercises. The book leads actors through a rigorous examination of their own habits, links those discoveries to creating characters, and offers dozens of exercises to explore in classrooms and with ensembles. The result is a modern toolkit that empowers actors to start from their own unique selves and delivers specific techniques to apply on stage and in front of the camera.

This step-by-step guide can be used by actors working individually or by teachers crafting the arc of a course, ensuring that students explore in physically engaged and dynamic ways at every step of their process.
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Contents include:
Part 1. Foundations for Physical Actioning 
1. Curiosity & Attention 2. Action 3. Translating Physical Language
 
Part 2. Seeing Yourself 

4. The Action Journal 5. Creating Palettes 6. Diagraming Identities 7. The Pasta Maker 
Part 3. Building an Embodied Role
 
8. Mapping Their World 9. Making Text Physical 10. Building Bridges to You 11. Special Circumstances 

Part 4. Experiments for the Classroom and Ensembles 
12. With a Partner 13. With Three or More 14. Skills Gymnasium 

Part 5. Program Notes 
15. Would Stanislavsky Disapprove? 16. Will My Brain Get in My Way?
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Teacher or Professor? You can request a digital inspection copy from Routledge here.
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