The Lucid Body: A Guide for the Physical Actor

The Lucid Body: A Guide for the Physical Actor

The Lucid Body: A Guide for the Physical Actor

The Lucid Body: A Guide for the Physical Actor

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Overview

Novice actors and stage veterans alike will discover a deeper level of consciousness through the exercises outlined in The Lucid Body: A Guide for the Physical Actor. Developed by Fay Simpson, an Actors Center member and co-founder of Impact Theatre, The Lucid Body is a cutting-edge technique that lets you combine eastern yoga elements with your contemporary western way of life to bring truth to your acting and inner clarity to your life.

The Lucid Body technique has been presented by the author for 15 years in workshops, rehearsals, and schools, teaching actors to access their seven chakra centers. Now you can practice in your own home what hundreds of others have already discovered at the Yale School of Drama, NYU, and the Michael Howard Studios. Add vital energy to your life and your acting with The Lucid Body.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781581157550
Publisher: Allworth
Publication date: 06/29/2010
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Fay Simpson is the founder of the Lucid Body Institute and artistic director of Impact Theatre NYC. Informed by thirty years of performing and devising work (Veterans Project, D-train, The Marital Bliss of Francis and Maxine, and Scotty), Simpson developed the Lucid Body technique. She and her instructors conduct private workshops and a two-year teacher training program at her Manhattan studio, The Lucid Body House. She is an associate arts professor at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program. A private coach for actors on stage, screen and television, she teaches abroad extensively wherever her teachers are building communities—London, Berlin, Toulouse, Moscow, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, and beyond. Simpson is a member of the Actor’s Center and recipient of the Fox Foundation Fellowship and Likhachev Fellowship. She lives in New York City.

Eleanor Rose Boynton is an illustrator and tattoo artist born and raised in New York City. Since graduating from Parsons School of Design, she’s found that the greatest inspiration for her work is exploring how natural things endure to survive in a fully urban environment, inspiring her to delve into ever-expanding forms of image making and new materials. Working closely with Fay Simpson to develop the visual stories for The Lucid Body, Boynton’s illustrations are a melding of new and old techniques, reaching back into traditional drafting and drawing styles, and collaging with digital imagery to bring each character to life.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

About the Second Edition ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction: The Lucid Body Defined xix

Section I Finding Center

Chapter 1 Nonjudgmental Mind 3

Chapter 2 The Audible Exhale 9

Chapter 3 Neutral Body 15

Chapter 4 Meditation 23

Section II Chakra Energy Centers

Chapter 5 What Is a Chakra? 31

Chapter 6 The Root 37

Chapter 7 The Sacral 49

Chapter 8 The Solar Plexus 61

Chapter 9 The Heart 73

Chapter 10 The Throat 87

Chapter 11 The Brow 101

Chapter 12 The Crown 115

Section III Energy Self-Analysis-Three Layers

Chapter 13 Taking Off the Armor 131

Chapter 14 Finding Your Persona 137

Chapter 15 Finding Your Shadow 147

Chapter 16 Finding the Child-Need 155

Section IV Physical Character Analysis

Chapter 17 Shape-Shifting: The Magic of Rearranging Energy 163

Chapter 18 Stage Intimacy 171

Chapter 19 Active Space 177

Chapter 20 Physical Listening 185

Chapter 21 Creating a Chakra Palette 189

Glossary 199

Bibliography 207

Index 211

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