Introduction: goals and objectives for learning to move expressively
Physical and expressive exercises for stage and screen movement, mime, pantomime, corporeal mime, improvisation, basic physical and expressive exercises, and utilizing movement to create a visual image. Definitions of stage and screen movement, mime, pantomime, corporeal mime, stage combat, physical theatre and physical improvisation
Conducting a class and practicing on one's own
Basic physical and expressive exercises: utilizing movement to create a visual image
Subjects for improvisation, pantomimes, movement for acting, mime and text. Interviews and essays on mime and acting, mask, Decroux and contemporary theatre, street theatre, movement training, dance and the female body, puppetry, theatrical dance, clowning, body of theater, and film
Improvisation
Pantomimes and scenes for nonverbal acting
"Physicalizing" the word
Interviews and essays. A conversation with Bill Irwin on mime and acting
Interview with Bernie Schürch and Floriana Frassetto of the Swiss Mummenschanz Company
Interview with Geoff Hoyle on the mime-clown-actor's art
Etienne Decroux and the contemporary theatre: Decroux corporeal mime / by Robert Fleshman
"The Bond St. Theatre's use of physical street theatre: an interview with Joanna Sherman and Michael McGuigan
Joan Schirle on movement training for the actor
Ilka Schönbein: dance and the female body
Liebe Wetzel and movement in puppetry
Karina Epperlein: images and body expression in film: gift of the gods
Theatrical dance / by Joe Goode
Jeff Raz: the clown conservatory teaching of professional clowns in the 21st century
Movement for puppeteers by Dr. Jo Tomalin
Too much geniality: notes and quotes on a reappraisal: stage versus screen acting / by Ken Bullock
The body of theater / by Mark Jackson
How Charlie Chaplin spun stagecraft into cinematic gold / by Dan Kamin
Epilogue.