ABSTRACT

David Zinder’s Body Voice Imagination is written by one of the master teachers of the Michael Chekhov technique of acting training. This book is a comprehensive course of exercises devoted to the development of actors’ creative expressivity, comprising both pre-Chekhov ImageWork Training and seminal exercises of the Chekhov technique. It also details the way in which these techniques can be applied to performance through a discovery of the profound connections between the actor’s body, imagination and voice.

part 1|26 pages

Logic

chapter 1|12 pages

The Logic of Training

chapter 2|5 pages

Training into Writing

chapter 3|7 pages

Technicalities

part 2|260 pages

Praxis

chapter 4|217 pages

The Exercises

chapter 5|41 pages

A Marriage of True Minds

Imagework Training and the Chekhov Technique