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Tables of Contents for An Acrobat of the Heart
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xvii
Introduction
xxxi
To the Reader
xliii
An Actor's Warm-up
3
40
Asking Questions
3
3
Tuning Your Inner Strings
6
2
Finding Safe Space
8
3
The Stream-of-Consciousness Warm-up
11
7
A Balancing Act
18
2
Slow Motion
20
3
The Body Part Warm-up
23
5
Acting on Impulse
28
8
What Is an Actor's Warm-up?
36
3
Work Clothes
39
4
Les Exercises Corporels
43
32
The Spine
44
1
Undulations
45
2
Digesting the Work---The Hunker
47
3
The Cat
50
10
More Exercises Corporels
60
2
The Forward and Backward Rolls
62
1
The Headstands
63
4
The Backbends
67
3
Tiger Leaps
70
5
Les Exercises Plastiques
75
61
Plastique Isolations
75
4
The Plastique River
79
5
Image? What Image?
84
1
Eye Focus
85
2
Touch
87
1
The Pushing Exercise
88
3
Image Walks
91
6
Sticking with Images
97
3
Working with Tension
100
3
The Container and the Kiss
103
2
Effort, Openness, and Imagery
105
4
Physical Acting and ``Serious'' Acting
109
3
Bad Acting
112
6
The ``Just Stand'' Exercises
118
7
Bodily Emotions
125
11
Listening
136
14
Paradoxes of Acting
136
2
I Feel
138
2
The First Crossing
140
2
The Second Crossing
142
1
Two-Person Plastique Rivers
143
4
Face Tracing
147
3
Voice Work
150
19
A Loss of Voice
150
2
Connecting the Voice and Body
152
5
Working with Sound in a Group
157
2
Receiving with the Voice
159
3
Consonants
162
3
``Yes-No'' and Gibberish
165
4
Scene Work
169
67
Choosing a Scene
169
4
``Dropping-In'' Plastiques
173
9
The Weapons Work
182
3
What about Objectives and Intentions?
185
3
Blocking and Stage Movement
188
2
The Dropping-In Crossing
190
1
Private Space
190
5
What about the ``Prior Circumstances''?
195
2
Rehearsing on Your Own
197
3
How to Talk to Another Actor
200
2
Listening All the Time
202
5
Positive Feedback
207
2
The Eyes
209
3
Finding the Right Gesture
212
5
Plastiques with Real Objects
217
2
Working with Mistakes
219
1
Pauses
220
4
Details
224
3
Precision
227
3
The Improvisation and the Score
230
2
An Acrobat of the Heart
232
4
Character Work
236
62
Why Bother?
237
2
What Is Character?
239
2
Character from the Body
241
3
Baseball (Three-Part Character)
244
4
Imitation
248
1
Character or Caricature
249
3
Anti-typecasting
252
3
Standing It
255
4
Dress-up
259
3
Characters Who Listen
262
3
Character Scenes Choosing
265
5
Character Word Jam: The Cinderella Exercise
270
2
``I Can't Play You''
272
2
Autobiography
274
4
Rehearsing Character Scenes
278
1
Playing Comedy
279
3
There Is No Stanley Kowalski
282
5
Traduttore, Traditore
287
5
Field of Dreams
292
6
Acting, Sanity, and Survival
298
25
Self-Judgment and Stage Fright
298
5
Acting or Therapy?
303
3
A Stradivarius in the Rain
306
1
Is Acting a Spiritual Discipline?
307
3
Is Acting a Political Activity? or, What is Selling Out?
310
3
Acting in the Real World
313
4
How to Choose an Acting Teacher
317
6
Afterthoughts from Andre Gregory
323
6
Bibliography
329
4
Permissions Acknowledgments
333