Rhythm in acting and performance : embodied approaches and understandings

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of Exercises = xi
• List of Figures and Tables = xii
• Acknowledgements = xiii
• PART ONE : Establishing a Pulse = 1
• 1 What Is Rhythm? An Open Question = 1
• The etymology of rhythm = 8
• Productive categories of rhythm 12 Reflections = 23
• 2 An Epoch of Rhythm : Now and Then = 25
• Natural and organic rhythm = 27
• Mechanical and deterministic rhythmic aesthetics = 30
• Rhythm as a universal language = 33
• Authenticity and real time = 35
• A new epoch of rhythm = 38
• Reflections = 41
• PART TWO : Stanislavski on Rhythm = 43
• 3 Tapping Emotions : The Ins and Outs of Tempo-Rhythm = 47
• An aspiring opera singer = 47
• Psychophysical techniques = 48
• Eurhythmies and polyrhythm = 52
• Tempo and rhythm - ins and outs = 54
• Tempo-rhythm in training = 59
• Tempo-rhythm in rehearsals = 66
• Reflections = 70
• PART THREE : Structure and Spontaneity = 73
• 4 Suzanne Bing : Music and Games in Actor Training = 77
• Initial interests in rhythm = 78
• Children's school in Paris = 80
• Applying eurhythmies in actor training = 83
• Voice, movement and storytelling = 85
• Musique corporelle = 87
• Legacy of rhythm and play = 91
• Reflections = 92
• 5 Vsevolod Meyerhold : Rhythm Not Metre = 95
• Form as a means to freedom = 96
• A rhythmic vocabulary = 100
• Rhythm versus metre = 101
• Tripartite rhythm = 104
• Reflections = 107
• 6 John Britton : Smashing the Ensemble Groove = 109
• Musical accompaniment = 110
• Jazz as model for ensemble improvisation = 111
• Ensemble = 113
• Smashing the groove = 114
• The shape of an action = 116
• The energetic = 118
• Reflections = 119
• 7 Anne Bogart and Tina Landau : A Horizontal Viewpoint = 121
• A non-hierarchical ethos = 123
• Musical accompaniment = 125
• Rhythm in Suzuki work = 126
• Viewpoints of time = 127
• Reflections = 134
• Reflections on structure and spontaneity = 135
• PART FOUR : The Ecstatic Performer = 137
• 8 Rhythm and Altered States of Consciousness : Entrainment and Communitas = 143
• Rhythmic entrainment = 146
• Group／ensemble rhythm = 149
• Reflections = 151
• 9 Jerzy Grotowski : Seeking Pulse, Movement and Rhythm = 153
• Influences and sources = 154
• Exercises plastiques = 158
• Techniques of sources = 161
• Reflections = 165
• 10 Nicolas Nunez : Becoming Present = 167
• Slow walking = 168
• Contemplative running = 170
• Cosmic verticality = 173
• `Here and now' = 174
• Continuity of effort and the sustaining of rhythm = 177
• Reflections = 178
• 11 Eilon Morris : Orbits - Cultivating Simultaneity = 181
• Vertical time = 182
• Orbits = 185
• Running Orbits = 190
• Reflections = 192
• Reflections on polyrhythm and simultaneity = 195
• PART FIVE : A Plurality of Voices = 197
• 12 Rhythming Words : Where, How and Why = 201
• Meaning and rhythm = 204
• Reflections = 208
• 13 Creating Spaces : Conversations with Judith Adams and Karen Christopher = 209
• Judith Adams = 209
• Karen Christopher = 212
• Reflections = 215
• 14 The Poetry of the Breath : Conversations with Bruce Myers and Kate Papi = 217
• Bruce Myers = 217
• Kate Papi = 220
• Reflections = 223
• 15 The Tune Is a Framework : A Conversation with Chris Coe and Frankie Armstrong = 225
• Reflections = 229
• PART SIX : Reflections = 231
• Coda = 238
• Glossary = 240
• Notes = 247
• References = 259
• Index = 271