Mythic Imagination and the Actor: Exercises, Inspiration, and Guidance for the 21st Century Actor

Author:   Marissa Chibás (California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780367715519


Pages:   120
Publication Date:   03 August 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Marissa Chibás (California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.285kg
ISBN:  

9780367715519


ISBN 10:   0367715511
Pages:   120
Publication Date:   03 August 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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The beauty of this work is that it reminds you that your power is within you. Nataki Garrett, Artistic Director Oregon Shakespeare Festival This book will inform and impact the future of acting training. Dawn Akemi Saito, multi-disciplinary theater artist, faculty at Fordham University and Julliard Drama I cannot recommend Marissa Chibas's book more highly. Daniel Alexander Jones, award winning American performance artist, playwright, director, essayist and educator. This book is filled with exercises to enliven the imagination of the actor. Cynthia Santos-DeCure, actor, voice and dialect professor, Yale School of Drama This Book is a MUST READ . Ron Cephas Jones, Two-time Emmy award winning actor ...deftly releases the full range of an actor's power and imagination... Elaine Avila, Visiting Professor/Playwright in Residence, Pomona College, Quest University, Western Washington University Chibas's book is inherently a decolonial pedagogy. Monica Sanchez, actor, ariter, theater/dance faculty at Colorado College It is the base and the core to my craft. Emilio Garcia Sanchez, CalArts acting alum, known for The Society, Mijo, Criminal Minds I can't express enough the power and duende that is possible when exploring and applying these sacred techniques and exercises Cristina Frias, Actor and Professor of Acting East LA College and UCLA ...it is an incredibly expansive tool for me in my acting process. Andrea LeBlanc, Actor, Associate Dean and co-head of BFA Acting, CalArts ...a clear path for artists to develop integrity in their creative practice while nurturing their capacity to serve as healers and spiritual visionaries. Mirah Love, Interfaith Spiritual Counselor and Artistic Mentor. From current and former students - you will find more in you as a performer than you ever thought possible Adam Peltier, CalArts MFA acting student ....it really taught me how I can incorporate my spirituality, my faith, my beliefs into every character... Terrence Willburn, CalArts acting alum These exercises have reminded me that I do have something to say, that I do have something to offer, and that I am powerful. Sharon Mae, CalArts acting alum ...helped me reconnect to that ancestral, primal urge that made me want to become an actor. Katharine Means, CalArts acting alum The archetypes give the actor a shortcut to an immediate reservoir of emotion and physicality and gesture and energy and sensibility. Hector Alvarez, MFA Directing student CalArts


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Marissa Chibás is a Los Angeles-based writer, filmmaker, actor, educator, and recipient of the TCG Fox Fellowship for Distinguished Achievement. She is on the Theater School faculty at California Institute of the Arts where she is Director of Duende CalArts, an initiative at CalArts Center for New Performance that produces innovative Latinx and Latin American artists. Her work as an actor has been seen on Broadway and on major stages throughout the world and her solo show, Daughter of a Cuban Revolutionary, has toured the U.S., Europe, and Mexico and was published by Routledge Press. For more information, visit www.marissachibas.com.

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