Writing on Movement.
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Movement Directors in Contemporary Theatre: Conversations on craft by Ayse Tashkiran 2020 Bloomsbury, Methuen
This new edition is a collection of in-depth interviews with leading movement directors and theatre choreographers, offering an insiders view into the subtle, embodied art of movement direction - a book by a movement director about movement direction with the voices of movement directors from all stages of their working lives.
The Actor and His Body by Litz Pisk, introduction by Ayse Tashkiran 2017 Bloomsbury, Methuen
A new edition of a seminal actor movement book by Litz Pisk was given a contextual introduction that traces Litz’s developing practice from Vienna to London, and through her work at RADA, Old Vic Theatre School and Central. First hand accounts of her classes are described in detail by actors and movement directors.
Link to additional resources for The Actor and His Body by Litz Pisk, introduction by Ayse Tashkiran 2017 Bloomsbury, Methuen
British Movement Directors by Ayse Tashkiran in The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq, edited by Rick Kemp and Mark Evans, Abingdon; Routledge, 2016.
Chapter 25 analyses the influence of Lecoq training on movement directors at the National Theatre - tracing a line from Claude Chagrin to the present day
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