The DbD Experience: Chance Knows What its Doing!

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To all the author's other magnificent achievements now must be added a book that deserves to become a foundation work of the theater alongside, say, Stanislavski's An Actor Prepares.

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Readers fortunate enough to encounter this book will surely be looking forward with great anticipation to its sequel, which covers the eight-week class that takes her pupils beyond the DbD Experience. One person found this helpful 2 people found this helpful.

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This book is a riveting, step-by-step description of Rachel Rosenthal's weekend intensive workshop, and it is a must-read for anyone interested in the mysterious beauty of the creative process, and the mastery of its form. Rachel is an inspiration, whether she is performing, teaching, painting, writing, or speaking.

The power of this long-awaited book will have you on the next plane to Los Angeles at the doors of her magical performance studio, so watch out!

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View or edit your browsing history. Through a three-day regimen of body and voice work, individual and group exercises, and improvisations, theatre becomes a way of shifting the concentrated focus participants give these practices toward their "unconscious daily experiences" Rosenthal started the DbD workshops in in Los Angeles, coming out of Instant Theatre — a "totally spontaneous and collective theatrical form" Rosenthal developed in the late s and continued, with some starts and stops, until In their current incarnation, DbD workshops take place from a Friday to Sunday, during which time students "hear three talks by [Rosenthal], do group movement meditations, exercises that address different theatrical issues, [ The process, like Instant Theatre, is primarily improvisatory, with structures cumulatively built upon each other toward a final group improvisation called a Rambler.

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Rosenthal follows the Introduction with an initial description of "What is Doing by Doing? This is followed by three detailed sections based on each day of the workshop: Friday's Circle Talk begins with an exploration of the role memory and imagination play in art making and expands into an abridged history of human development; Saturday's is a discussion of the relationship between subatomic physics and our connection to the people and world around us, particularly as a way to reconcile humans' "adversary and hostile" relationship to "Nature" 67 ; and Sunday's considers the hazards and responsibilities that come with the power one assumes as an artist.

These Circle Talks, too, are improvisatory gestures that "contain material and thoughts that are prominent in [Rosenthal's] life at the time of the particular DbD" The sections are further divided into specific exercises and techniques — mostly descriptions of concrete strategies, though occasionally more abstract elaborations of the environment of the workshops. My favorite of the latter is "Dogs," a subsection describing the role of the If you would like to authenticate using a different subscribed institution that supports Shibboleth authentication or have your own login and password to Project MUSE, click 'Authenticate'.

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