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Author Bowditch, Rachel

Title Inside the Performance Workshop A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (325 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Crossing the Line: Why The Performance Workshop? -- Part I History and Theory -- 1 Richard Schechner and Origins of The Performance Workshop -- 2 What Is Rasa? -- 3 Rasaesthetics -- Part II Practice -- 4 Inside The Performance Workshop -- Fundamental Principles and Practices -- Four Phases of Performer Training -- Presence and Absence -- Consent and Boundary Checks -- Feedback and Discussion Circles -- Time in TPW -- Navigation Guide
A Note About Language -- A Note About Order -- Instructions -- Experience -- Discussion -- Rules for Play -- Beginnings -- Set Up -- Entering the Space -- Crossing the Line -- Names -- Performative Introductions -- Greetings -- Warm-Ups: Physical and Vocal Training -- Yoga Asanas and Breath Work -- Yoga Asanas -- Breath Work -- Panting and Sounding with Resonators -- Group Sound Work -- Open Sound -- Aiming and Passing Sound -- One Sound -- One Sound One Movement -- Crossings -- Crossings I: Encounters -- Crossings II: Display -- Crossings III: Desires -- Performance of Self and Persona
Song of Self -- Object Exercise -- Animal Exercise -- Group Performances -- Creating Performance Worlds -- Crossings IV: Slow Motion -- Crossings V: Slow Motion Transformation -- Rasaboxes -- Overview -- Why Rasa? -- Orange Exercise: Rasa, Literally -- Setting Up the Rasaboxes Grid -- Introducing Each Rasa -- Writing and Drawing in Rasaboxes -- Embodying Rasas -- Around the World I -- Sculpting in Partners -- Showing and Regarding -- Making a Breath Phrase -- Shanta Rasabox: First Taste -- Shopping for Rasas -- Relating in Rasaboxes for Two Players -- Transitions in Rasaboxes
Sound Sensation in Rasaboxes -- Around the World II -- Relating with Shanta -- Scaling Intensity -- Text in the Rasaboxes: Monologues -- Chorus Work in Rasaboxes -- Chorus with Text -- Relating with Text: Scene Work -- Mixing Rasas -- Layering Rasas -- Rasawalk: Site-Specific Explorations -- Cool Downs -- Closings -- The Banquet -- Uncrossing the Line -- Structure and Practice of TPW -- Sample Outline for Three-Week Workshop -- Part III Facilitating The Performance Workshop -- 5 Principles of The Performance Workshop: An Interview with Richard Schechner
6 The Unavoidable Guru: Roles of The Performance Workshop Leader -- Part IV Notes from the Field -- 7 Freeing Emotional Expression in Young Performers: Rasaboxes in K-12 Context -- Rasaboxes with Middle and High School Students -- Using Rasaboxes with Kindergarten Through 5th Grade Students -- 8 Psychophysical Preparation for Rasaboxes with Strasberg and Stanislavsky -- 9 Adapting Rasaboxes to Rasa≈Therapy: Clinical Applications in Drama Therapy -- 10 Rasaboxes, Drama Therapy, and Stability Through Dynamic Change: A Case Study -- 11 Rasaboxes in the Training of Drama Therapists
Summary The Rasaboxes Sourcebook is the first full-length volume dedicated to the history, theory, practice, and application of a suite of increasingly popular performer training exercises known as rasaboxes
Notes Description based upon print version of record
12 Dancing on the Tongue
Subject Movement (Acting)
Acting -- Problems, exercises, etc
Acting.
Movement (Acting)
Genre/Form Electronic books
Problems and exercises.
Form Electronic book
Author Murray Cole, Paula
Minnick, Michele
ISBN 9781317191513
131719151X