Recently added articles from Australasian Drama Studies:
Wayne Blair in Interview
Oct 01, 2008; ... Wayne Blair, a member of the Butchala clan, is a thirty-six-year-old actor, director and writer, who works across theatre, film and television. He has worked for the Bell Shakespeare Company, the Melbourne Theatre Company, the Sydney Theatre Company, the Queensland Theatre Company, Bangarra ...
The NYID Workshop: Physical Performance in Space
Oct 01, 2008; ... In September 1999 I moved from Brasilia, Brazil, to Melbourne, Australia, in order to start doctoral research on physical training for actors. For the following months I attended theatre and circus performances and workshops and interviewed a number of directors who had done or were doing ...
Nanjing Project: Chinese Acrobatics, Australian New Circus and Hybrid Intercultural Performance
Oct 01, 2008; ... In 2007 at the Melbourne Fringe Festival, Derek Ives ended his characterdriven one-man physical theatre performance Bucket of Love1 with a wine bottle thrown into the air and onto the spike of a closed umbrella, supposedly causing it to open and the bottle to spill water - rain - over the ...
Moving into Performance: Using the Principles of the Alexander Technique to Underpin and Enhance an Actor's Training
Oct 01, 2008; ... What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! Born in Tasmania in 1 869, Frederick Mathias Alexander ...
Jacques Lecoq's Bouffons in Australia
Oct 01, 2008; ... In The Moving Body, Jacques Lecoq describes his explorations into bouffon, a theatrical form that uses body masking to transform actors into grotesque, outcast characters who satirise society. Lecoq researched and developed the form over thirty years, mapping the dramatic territory of the ...