Zygmunt Molik's Voice and Body Work: The Legacy of Jerzy Grotowski

by Giuliano Campo, Zygmunt Molik

Overview

One of the original members of Jerzy Grotowski's acting company, Zygmunt Molik's Voice and Body Work explores the unique development of voice and body exercises throughout his career in actor training.

This book, constructed from conversations between Molik and author Giuliano Campo, provides a fascinating insight into the methodology of this practitioner and teacher, and focuses on his 'Body Alphabet' system for actors, allowing them to combine both voice and body in their preparatory process.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415568463
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/27/2010
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Zygmunt Molik was a co-founder, leading actor and for 25 years a member of Jerzy Grotowski’s Teatr Laboratorium. He played the main role in forming the voice training initiated by Jerzy Grotowski. His Voice and Body training sessions focus on the release of creative energy, and the search for the unity and connection between the body and the voice as the basis of an actor’s process.

Giuliano Campo is actor, writer and director. He is former research associate for the British Grotowski Project based at the University of Kent, UK, a member of the European Theatre Research Network (ETRN) and of the Leverhulme International Research Network collaborating with the school of the Moscow Art Theatre (MXAT).

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

FIRST DAY

Acting therapy – The Voice and The Life – The beginnings

SECOND DAY

Techniques – "Sing your life" - Teachers and masters – Grotowski and the company

THIRD DAY

Paratheatre – The Organic Life and the Process – Ryszard Cieślak

FOURTH DAY

The meeting with the unknown - Montage

FIFTH DAY

The "Body Alphabet"

IMAGES OF THE "BODY ALPHABET"

SIXTH DAY

The text – Organic and cultural differences – Voice as a vehicle

SEVENTH DAY

The attention – Necessity, organic process, nostalgia

EIGHTH DAY

The productions – Meeting Grotowski – The Teatr Laboratorium

NINETH DAY

Colleagues and collaborators

APPENDIX. GROTOWSKI THEATRE AND BEYOND

From Stanislavski to Grotowski – The Theatre of Productions (1959-1969) – Paratheatre (1970-1978), Theatre of Sources (1979-1982) and after