Arthur Lessac's Embodied Actor Training

Melissa Hurt is a Lessac Certified Trainer and has taught acting and Lessac’s voice, speech, and movement work at colleges across the United States. She has a PhD from the University of Oregon and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.

I. ARTHUR LESSAC’S KINESENSICS AND EMBODIED ACTOR TRAINING

Contemporary Embodied Actor Training

The Pedagogical Challenges of an Embodied Practice

Methods

II. GETTING TO KNOW YOU

Back to Basics: Body Wisdom

Feeling the Process Within: Breath

Body Esthetics

Gestalt

III. BRAIDING PERCEPTIONS THROUGH HEIGHTENED AWARENESS

The Familiar Event Principle and Organic Instruction

Attention

Habitual Awareness Principle and De-Patterning Principle

The Braiding of Perceptions Through Gestalt

The Flow Between Body Esthetics, the Familiar Event Principle, and Organic

Instruction

IV. THE ACTOR’S RELATIONSHIP WITH SPACE

The Actor’s Inner Space

The Actor Inhabits Space

An Expressive Other

V. SPONTANEOUSLY FREE

Braiding of the Sentient and Sensible

Subjectivity in Performance

Accomplishing Dual Consciousness

AFTERWORD

A Word on the Importance of Trust

APPENDIX A: SELECT TIMELINE OF ARTHUR LESSAC’S LIFE AND

CAREER

APPENDIX B: SAMPLE CURRICULUM

APPENDIX C: EXPLORATIONS FOR PERSONAL DISCOVERY