Performing Arts · Theatre Practice
A topic within Theatre Practice, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Performing Arts.
2 works
Francois Delsarte
Systematises gesture, posture and voice into law-governed 'attitudes' that a performer can train and combine deliberately, treating expression as a teachable science rather than inspiration.
link checked 17 Sept 2026F. Matthias Alexander
Argues that civilised life has degraded the instinctive control of the body into habitual misuse, and that conscious, reasoned control of posture and movement restores it — founding the retraining method later taught to actors as the Alexander Technique.
link checked 17 Sept 2026