Exercises for Embodied Actors

Scott Illingworth is a professor in the Graduate Acting Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a freelance director. He has taught, lectured, and directed at universities and schools across the United States and internationally. He is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, and a Fulbright grant recipient. For more information about Scott, please visit www.physicalactioning.com.

• Part 1. Foundations for Physical Actioning 1. Curiosity & Attention 2. Action 3. Translating Physical Language Part 2. Seeing yourself 4. The Physical Action Journal 5. Creating Palettes 6. Diagraming Identities 7. The Pasta Maker Part 3. Building an Embodied Role 8. Mapping Their World 9. Making Text Physical 10. Building Bridges to You 11. Special Circumstances Part 4. Experiments for the Classroom and Ensembles 12. With a Partner 13. With Three or More 14. Skills Gymnasium Part 5. Program Notes 15. Would Stanislavsky Disapprove? 16. Will My Brain Get in My Way?

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