Your Body Knows: A Movement Guide for Actors

Contents

• Part 1 . Know Your Instrument
• 1. Your Motion Detector
• 2. Your Three-Dimensional Body
• 3. Your Moving Breath
• 4. Get to Know Your Joints
• 5. Joint Connections in Your Head-Spine-Pelvis
• 6. Joint Connections in Your Arm Structure
• 7. Joint Connections in Your Feet, Legs, and Pelvis
• 8. Strong Bones, Dynamic Muscles
• 9. Connecting Your Joints and Your Whole Body
• 10. Your Body-Mind Connection
• 11. Body Myths vs. Anatomical Facts
• 12. Your Primary Coordination
• 13. Your Inner Space
• 14. Exploring "Outer Space"
• 15. Inner and Outer Space: A Movement Partnership
• 16. Connecting Body, Mind, Breath, and Space
• 17. Practicing Presence
• Part 2 . Elements of Expression
• 18. Authentic Impulse: Listening Within
• 19. Your Body Leads the Way
• 20. The Four Brothers
• 21. Space
• 22. Time
• 23. Weight
• 24. Flow
• 25. Exploring the Efforts
• 26. Qualities of Movement
• 27. Shape
• 28. Spatial Tools
• 29. Text and Your Responsive Body-Mind
• Part 3 . Creative Practice
• 30. Whole-body Warm-up: Staccato-Legato
• 31. Movement, Character, and Relationships
• 32. Performing for an Audience
• 33. Movement and Space: Creating the World of the Play
• Appendix I. Practices for Further Exploration
• Appendix II. The Movement Pioneers