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Travailler avec Grotowski sur les actions physiques

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" Ce livre s'inscrit dans la lignée de l'Acteur flottant de Yoshi Oida, car si celui-là racontait l'aventure d'un acteur japonais aux côtés de Brook, celui-ci raconte une période de travail, bien précise, de Thomas Richards aux côtés de Grotowski. Témoignages d'extrême proximité... D'autant plus décisifs que ces deux maîtres de la scène moderne ont toujours cru dans les vertus du travail à l'écart de toute présence extérieure et dans les pouvoirs du faire dont deux des collaborateurs privilégiés s'efforcent de rendre par écrit l'impact sur leur formation. L'un est venu d'Osaka s'installer à Paris, l'autre a quitté New York pour travailler au Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski à Pontedera. Il y a chaque fois départ, mais les maîtres, eux aussi, ne sont pas d'ici : le déplacement, comme un destin commun les relie tous les quatre. Ces êtres du dehors nous proposent des livres du dedans : dedans du travail théâtral préservé des yeux indiscrets et des passants précipités. " (Extrait de la préface)

200 pages, Paperback

First published May 4, 1995

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Thomas Richards

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Thomas Richards was born in the USA in 1962. He is the son of director Lloyd Richards. Richards received a BA from Yale.

He has been a collaborator of Jerzy Grotowski since 1986.

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January 29, 2009
It's painful that somewhere out there a teacher who could explain all this directly to me does exist. And I have no idea how to find him/her. All the same, another amazing book about an amazing acting teacher.
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December 30, 2021
Un libro imprescindible, no sólo en cuanto a actuación sino también con el compromiso que tenemos con ella. Como decía Grotowski, no seamos solo “turistas” de ello, pongámoslo todo.
Reflexiones muy profundas en cuanto a lo que quiere decir actuar con una lucidez espectacular. Qué pena que esté descatalogado y sea difícil de encontrar.
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September 22, 2021
Had to read for a class this semester, and I’m glad I did. One of the best books on acting I have read because it resonated with my process and what I needed the most. The book is very intelligent, knowledgeable, and isn’t too difficult to digest. Though, I did find myself reading at a slower pace to really visualize and internalize the content.
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November 5, 2024
Al principi resulta un poc complex de llegir però conforme vas avançant en la lectura te indinses per complet.
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November 1, 2008
I read this last night when I couldn't sleep and it was raining and the grad students in the lower flat next door were having a halloween party. Really loved Richard's first-hand accounts of workshops and work groups with no public performance as goal, particularly Richards' take on his own 'tourism' and 'dilettantism' and other vocabulary words for mistakes of approach to 'the work'. Both his own vocabulary and Grotowski's, such as 'pumping up' (one's emotions) or what came to be called 'Thomas Richard's Crimes' (making noise during the main action, loud breathing, disconnecting from one's partners).

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