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Theatre Topics

Volume 19, Number 2, September 2009

E-ISSN: 1086-3346 Print ISSN: 1054-8378

DOI: 10.1353/tt.0.0064

Barbara Sellers-Young
A Balancing Act: The Development of Energize! A Holistic Approach to Acting (review)
Theatre Topics - Volume 19, Number 2, September 2009, pp. 221-221

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Project MUSE - Theatre Topics - A Balancing Act: The Development of Energize! A Holistic Approach to Acting (review) Project MUSE Journals Theatre Topics Volume 19, Number 2, September 2009 A Balancing Act: The Development of Energize! A Holistic Approach to Acting (review) Theatre Topics Volume 19, Number 2, September 2009 E-ISSN: 1086-3346 Print ISSN: 1054-8378 DOI: 10.1353/tt.0.0064 Reviewed by Barbara Sellers-YoungYork University A Balancing Act: The Development of Energize! A Holistic Approach to Acting. By F. Emmanuelle Chaulet. Gorham, ME: Starlight Acting Books, 2008; pp. 336. $22.50 paper. Cofounder of the International Michael Chekhov Association Lisa Dalton contextualizes F. Emmanuelle Chaulet's A Balancing Act: The Development of Energize! A Holistic Approach to Acting by stating in the Foreword that "it is increasingly evident that actors' greatest challenges have more to do with the invisible, energy-based imbalances than the actual acting process." Borrowed from physics' designation of observable forms of physical energy, the term energy has been widely adopted by writers and practitioners...


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