Author Description

Introduction -- Dancing History. First Steps -- Becoming An Actress -- Odin Teatret -- Teachers -- The Dramaturgy Of The Actress -- Personal Terminology. The Echo Of Silence -- Stage Presence -- Pursuing Oppositions -- Rodin's Torsos -- Precision And Decision: The Whole Body -- Precision And Decision: The Whole Voice -- Training. Aspects Of Training -- My Own Training -- The Purpose Of Training -- Reduction -- Improvisation And Composition. The Creation Of Material -- Stimuli, Strategies And Procedures -- Repetition, Memory, Fixing -- Before, During And After Improvisation -- Elaboration: From The Actress's Point Of View -- Elaboration: From The Director's Point Of View -- Score And Subscore. A Useful But Wrong Word -- The Paper Song -- Thought -- The Subscore Of Creation -- Chaotic Order -- The Subscore Of Repetition -- The Subscore Of Performance -- Text And Subtext. Textual Interpretation -- Textual Analysis -- Physical Actions As Subtext -- Vocal Actions As Subtext -- Melodies And Music As Subtext -- The Character. Identities -- Mr Peanut -- Do; A Musica -- Dramaturgy According To Daedalus -- The Puppet Character -- The Director -- Meeting A Director -- Working With A Director -- The Surgeon And The Mountaineer -- The Peasant And The Cook -- The Performance. Replica And Difference -- Faces, Words, Landscapes. Julia Varley.