The Space to Move: Essentials of Movement Training

by Christian Darley

Overview

The vital building blocks of movement training – a key sourcebook for actors, directors, students and teachers.

In precise detail, Darley sets out the exercises and techniques she developed with her own drama-school students. She deals with the vital building blocks of movement training: awareness, relaxation, tension—particularly Lecoq's Seven States—and suspension, before progressing to areas in which she was a pioneer: animal work, contact work, visual spacing, and the relationship between voice and movement.

'a useful teaching resource and a handy guide for any actor' - Teaching Drama magazine

'Christian was much more than a teacher, she was an indomitable and extraordinary spirit' - Anna Maxwell Martin

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788502276
Publisher:	Hern, Nick Books
Publication date:	03/28/2020
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	883 KB

About the Author

Christian Darley taught movement at LAMDA and was movement director on many productions there and elsewhere. She also conducted various community workshops and took her work into prisons and schools. She died in her forties in 2008 just after completing her book, The Space to Move.

Table of Contents

Publisher's Note ix

Editors' Note xi

Beginnings xiii

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Starting the Work 5

Chapter 2 Musicality: Being à l'Écoute 13

Chapter 3 The Business of Relaxation 19

Chapter 4 Getting the Best Out of Technique 29

Chapter 5 Play and the Importance of Suspension 50

Chapter 6 Animal Work 59

Chapter 7 Contact Work 80

Chapter 8 The Actor's Voice 100

Chapter 9 Musicality and Visual Spacing 124

Chapter 10 The Mystery of Music and Props 145

Chapter 11 Pastoral Care 156

Chapter 12 Working with Children 159

Chapter 13 Working with the Army 169

In Conclusion 177

Afterword-And Another Thing... 179

Appendix-Exercises 180

On Working with Christian... Richard Armitage Samuel Barnett Dominic Cooper Félicit&é du Jeu 186

Index 190