caa a22 4500 388109505 CHVBK 20180307125349.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0307883300020290 doi S0307883300020290 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0307883300020290 Sellers-Young Barbara Barbara Sellers-Young is Professor of Dramatic Art and Drama at the University of California, Davis Technique and the Embodied Actor [Elektronische Daten] [Barbara Sellers-Young] A primary theme of twentieth-century theatre has been the actor's body. Numerous directors from Stanislavsky to Anne Bogart have evolved stage theories and related training methods to promote a more expressive body on stage. In her 1995 article ‘Developing a Physical Vocabulary for the Contemporary Actor', Lea Logic provides an overview of many of these approaches. While acknowledging the contributions of these director-teachers, she suggests, ‘If body shape and movement are to retain and increase their power as the central focus of theatre, actors must learn to maximize the expressive potential of their bodies.' Quoting Copeau, Chekhov, Stanislavsky or Barba, she maintains the primary problem is an actor's tendency consistently to return to physical choices related to their personality and not necessarily to the role they are playing. She quotes Copeau's description of actors: ‘I always know, in advance what they are going to do. They reduce everything to the level of their habits, their clichés, their affectations. They do not invent anything.' While Copeau's complaint is not directed at actor teachers, but actors, his words define one of the primary challenges for them, to teach actors to expand their expressive abilities beyond their self image. Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1999 Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 24/1(1999), 89-97 0307-8833 24:1<89 1999 24 TRI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300020290 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300020290 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sellers-Young Barbara Barbara Sellers-Young is Professor of Dramatic Art and Drama at the University of California, Davis NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 24/1(1999), 89-97 0307-8833 24:1<89 1999 24 TRI CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge