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Additional authors

1. Rotie, Marie-Gabrielle.
2. Steel, Liam.
3. Davies, Grant.
4. Pritchard, Stephen.
5. Stan Won't Dance (Dance group)
6. Forced Entertainment (Theater company)
7. Goat Island (Performance group)
8. Sankai Juku (Dance group)
9. Insight Media (Firm)

Description

1. 2 videodiscs (NTSC) (128 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Features interviews, live footage, and workshops with such leading physical theater companies as Stan Won't Dance (UK), Butoh performers, Sankai Juku (Japan) and Marie-Gabrielle Rotie (UK), Goat Island (US), and Forced Entertainment (UK). Presents ideas, strategies, and methods for adding physical dimensions to performance. It traces the history and bases of physical action, considering the influences of Artaud, Stanislavski, and Brecht; offers games and techniques that free the body and generate physical action; explores the relationship between text and action; covers choreographing and scoring physical action; and shows how to use physical theater in the classroom. Disc 1 material can be accessed by either the performance group or by topics; disc 2 contains abstracts from movement workshops, as well as an example of General Certificate of Secondary Education student work.

Alternative title

1. Body in performance
2. Mental notes (Theater piece)

Subject

1. Modern dance
2. Dance
3. Butō
4. Stan Won't Dance (Dance group)
5. Video
6. Goat Island (Performance group)
7. Movement (Acting)
8. Theater
9. Sankai Juku (Dance group)
10. Forced Entertainment (Theater company)

Genre/Form

1. Dance.
2. Video.

Contents

1. Part 1. Butoh influenced (Sankai Juku) (ca. 22). Approach -- The 3D body -- Ways of moving -- Gestures and forms -- Metamorphosis -- Time and space.
2. Goat Island (ca. 31 min.). Approach -- Developing ideas -- Structuring the dance -- Soundscape -- Audience, time & space -- Part 2 microlectures: Impossible tasks and generating gestures.
3. Stan Won't Dance (ca. 14 min.). Approach -- Developing movement -- Using props -- Soundscape.
4. Forced Entertainment (ca. 9 min.). Approaches to physicality -- Generating movement.
5. Part 2. Stan workshop [with Liam Steel] (ca. 10 min.). Hooking and rolling -- Platforms -- Counter pointing (strong language) -- Text and physicality (strong language).
6. Butoh workshop [with Marie-Gabrielle Rotie] (ca. 15 min.). Two butoh walks -- Face & hand forms -- Walking with forms -- Back breathing -- The expressive back -- Transformation.
7. Student work (ca. 27 min.). Mental notes (complete performance) -- Introduction -- An impossible dance -- A body in crisis -- A few props.

Call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-3928

Note

1. Disc 1 (part 1) (ca. 76 min.) contains 4 sections: Butoh influenced (Sankai Juku), Goat Island, Stan Won't Dance and Forced Entertainment. Disc 2 (part 2) (ca. 52 min.) contains 3 sections: Stan workshop, Butoh workshop and Student work.
2. "In 2006 Pumpkin TV embarked on a collaboration with Stephen Pritchard to produce a series of ground-breaking educational resources for drama students and teachers ... [includes] Creating physical theatre"--Producer's website.

System details (note)

1. DVD-R.

Title

1. Creating physical theater [videorecording] : the body in performance / production, Grant Davies ... [et al.].

Imprint

1. [New York, N.Y.] : Distributed by Insight Media, [2006]

System details

1. DVD-R.

Connect to:

1. Connect to material related to this title online

Added author

1. Rotie, Marie-Gabrielle. Teacher
2. Steel, Liam. Teacher
3. Davies, Grant. Producer
4. Pritchard, Stephen. Collaborator
5. Stan Won't Dance (Dance group)
6. Forced Entertainment (Theater company)
7. Goat Island (Performance group)
8. Sankai Juku (Dance group)
9. Insight Media (Firm)

Added title

1. Mental notes (Theater piece)

Publisher no.

1. DAM4333 Insight Media

Research call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-3928