{"product_id":"labans-efforts-in-action-a-movement-handbook-for-actors-with-online-video-resources-9781472533241","title":"Laban's Efforts in Action: A Movement Handbook for Actors with Online Video Resources","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs an actor, awareness of your movement is the key to transformation. By making deliberate physical choices, you can fully and articulately embody different ways of being: you can come someone or something else. Laban's Efforts give you a way of identifying and making these choices. Working with them helps the actor to create wholly present and physically ambitious performances. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book outlines Ewan's practical process, which allows the actor to understand their own movement and that of others by exploring one key part of Laban's work: the 'Efforts of Action Drive'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis complete, stage-by-stage, working process has been developed through more than thirty years of work with actors in the studio. Clear instructions for practical exercises are woven throughout the book, as well as exciting ways to apply the work in rehearsal, performance and on set. This allows the actor to learn and apply Laban's Efforts for themselves. Full video and audio resources allow the reader to experience the practical work in action. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Vanessa Ewan's work with Laban and the Efforts, as you will find in this inspired book, provides performers with an incredibly fertile foundation from which to create. She has found an astoundingly practical way of applying Laban's work to the quest of being a fully embodied actor. You will find tools in this book that will open door after door to your own creativity and awaken you to the endless possibility of what you can create on stage and on screen.\" Andrew Garfield, actor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVanessa Ewan \u003c\/b\u003eis Senior Lecturer on the three-year acting course and Co-Course Leader of the MA in Movement: Directing and Teaching at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKate Sagovsky\u003c\/b\u003e works as a theatre practitioner, specialising in movement-based work and cross-art-form performance, and is the artistic director of Moving Dust theatre company.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50337868677394,"sku":"9781472533241","price":57.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_96e156b3-3092-4a7b-9b44-af39f766af78.jpg?v=1727971698","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/labans-efforts-in-action-a-movement-handbook-for-actors-with-online-video-resources-9781472533241","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}