Speech and DramaSteinerBooks, 2007 M10 24 - 418 pages 19 lectures, Dornach, April 10, 1921 and September 5-23, 1924 (CW 282) This course was designed for students and professionals in the stage arts and given in the Section for the Arts of Speech and Music School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum. Rudolf Steiner begins with a fundamental and spiritually-rooted appreciation of human speech and what actually takes place during human communication. Speech is a spiritual activity as well as an art form, lending itself to real interaction with both higher spiritual worlds and the human world of social conversation. Steiner shows that speech is a powerful tool for any serious dramatist in conveying the reality of worlds, whether visible or invisible, to the individual souls in the audience. This is an essential book for anyone involved in speech work, communication arts, and many kinds of therapies. This volume is a translation from German of Sprachgestaltung und Dramatische Kunst (GA 282). |
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... instead began enquiring : ' If here is the person's arm , at what angle should he hold it at the elbow ? What will be its natural position for ploughing ? ' ( How constantly 1 See Note on p . 411 . one hears this word ' natural ' ! ) And ...
... arm in this position ? ' Suppose , that is , you were to take not the slightest interest in what has to be done to the field by the plough , but were merely to ask : What method must I use to bring the pupil into a certain train of ...
... ( arms pressed against the side ) . And so we may say : Holding on to oneself is here the corresponding gesture.1 2 ... arms and hands in a sort of wavy , rolling movement . 3. Cautiously feeling one's : way in face of hind- rances A ...
Rudolf Steiner. gesture when , for instance , we hold our arm first close to our body , and then thrust it out a little , -not quite in a horizontal direction , but slanting a little forward . 6. Drawing back on to one's : Slanting a ...
... arms and hands - especially so ( with the hands raised , palm - upwards ) comes to expression in speech when the voice trembles , or vibrates . It is helpful for the speaker if the poet uses here words that have as many r sounds as ...