The three voices
You have a head voice, a chest voice and an abdominal voice. I briefly discuss these in Re-Imagining Your Body, Part One, with the goal...
Being ‘inside’ ourselves
As a ‘self,’ where are you? 'Inside' yourself, presumably. Inside your “mortal frame” or body. But what does such ‘being inside’ really...
Physical theatre
Since all theatre is psychophysical, what do we really mean by ‘physical theatre’? In theatre, we only get access to the ‘inside’ by...
Diderot's paradox of acting
“Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made,” said George Burns. This is a variation of the ‘paradox of...
I am NOT my brain
In 2014, the neuroscientist Dick Swaab published a book with the title, We Are Our Brains. To my mind, that such a claim could be...
The architecture of the self 2
Here’s a second way in which the ‘self’ can be seen as both physical and external. (For the first, see here.) There’s an exercise for...
The actor's 'instrument'
The actor is exposed onstage and in a certain metaphorical sense ‘naked’. This may be part of the reason why so many books about acting...
The rise and fall of 'power posing'
In 2010, Amy Cuddy, a Social Psychologist at Harvard Business School, was one of the authors of a scientific paper called “Power posing:...
The architecture of the self 1
You don’t stop – or start – at your skin. Your personal space, what Laban called your kinesphere, what I call your ‘psychological skin’ –...
The problem of other minds
Robots are topical. They’re taking jobs previously done by humans. As they become more complex, will they acquire ‘minds’? Or will they...