Actor Training the Laban Way (Second Edition): An Integrated Approach to Voice, Speech, and Movement

The Groundbreaking Actor Training Guide, Enhanced with New Videos and Expert Advice from Acting Professionals

Actors, teachers, and students of performing arts: sharpen your skills and release your potential with Actor Training the Laban Way, a groundbreaking approach to physical and vocal movement. Explore each exercise (at beginner, intermediary, and advanced levels) and gradually build your body’s ability to concentrate and learn through movement. Utilizing theories of preeminent movement theorist Rudolf Laban, acting teacher and performer Barbara Adrian integrates voice, speech, and movement training with illustrated individual and group exercises that include:

• Breath Support
• Building Dynamic Alignment
• Expanding Vocal Tone and Range
• Articulation and Rhythmic Exploration
• Enhancing Strength and Stamina
• Improving Balance and Flexibility
• Developing a Relationship to the Environs
• Revealing Your Emotional State through Physical and Vocal Action

This second edition also includes an all-new chapter of advice from acting professionals on how they deploy these exercises and techniques in their acting preparation, practice, and performance. New appendices offer readers links to video supplements as well as exercises in IPA.

Inspirational and challenging, Actor Training the Laban Way will make any performer more impulsive, imaginative, and expressive.

Barbara Adrian, MFA, CMA, is a Professor of Theatre Arts at Marymount Manhattan College teaching voice, speech, and movement for the actor. She coaches professional actors for television, film, and stage. She is also an Associate Artist with New York Classical Theatre. She lives in New York City.