Six Questions, The : Acting Technique For Dance Performance Paperback / softback
by Daniel Nagrin
Paperback / softback
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In the late twenties, actors and directors of the Group Theatre, who were pioneering the use of Stanislavski's teachings, saw the value of teaching ballet and the emerging modern dance.
Actors now routinely learn dance, but dancers rarely study acting.
In The Six Questions, Nagrin maintains that a command of acting techniques allows the dancer to couple the passion of a body in motion with the heart and mind of the dancer. In five parts, the book first examines the personal essentials demanded by dance.
The second part looks at the pitfalls inherent in the act of performing from vanity to self-hatred.
The third part, the core of the book, poses six questions: Who? is doing what? to whom? where and when? and why? and against what obstacle? In the fourth part, Nagrin looks at the tools for working on the role, and the fifth part enters into the very act of performing.
All of the work is handled in terms of movement alone: no dialogue or scenes from plays are used. The Six Questions is a companion piece to Nagrin's other works, How To Dance Forever, and Dance and the Specific Image: Improvisation.
Together they present an invaluable teaching and learning tool for anyone in love with dance.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication Date:04/09/1997
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- ISBN:9780822956242
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication Date:04/09/1997
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- ISBN:9780822956242