1st Edition

Improvisation the Michael Chekhov Way Active Exploration of Acting Techniques

By Wil Kilroy Copyright 2024
214 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Improvisation the Michael Chekhov Way: Active Exploration of Acting Techniques provides readers with dozens of improvisational exercises based on the acting techniques of Michael Chekhov. The book features key exercises that will help the actor explore improvisation and expand their imagination through the technique. Exercises that have been successfully taught for decades via the intensive... Read more

1. Expansion/Contraction - The Pulse of Life  2. The Four Brothers of Art: Ease, Beauty, Form and Wholeness/Entirety  3. Qualities of Movement: Molding, Flowing, Flying, and Radiating  4. Archetypal Gestures  5. Radiating and Receiving  6. The Three Sister Sensations: Balancing, Falling, Floating  7. Qualities and Sensations  8. Moveable Centers  9. The Imaginary Body  10. Costume Characters  11. Thinking, Feeling, and Willing: The Trinity of the Psychology  12. Atmospheres  13. Tempo and Rhythm  14. Focal Points  15. Psychological Gesture

Biography

Wil Kilroy is the Department Head of Theatre Arts at New Mexico State University and an AEA, SAG-AFTRA actor. Kilroy is Co-Founder of the National Michael Chekhov Association, along with Lisa Dalton and the late Mala Powers, who was executrix of the Michael Chekhov Estate. Kilroy has utilized the acting techniques of Michael Chekhov for many decades world-wide as an actor, director, and teacher, and to uplift everyday life.