chapter / 2000
The One Pointed Mind: Japanese Influence on Contemporary Actor Training in the United States
This chapter analyzes Japanese influence on contemporary American actor training, especially the movement from emotion-centered realism toward psychophysical integration. Sellers-Young traces how Zen, Zeami, Suzuki training, Viewpoints, and related practices helped American theatre artists rethink the actor as a body-mind continuum organized through attention, breath, stillness, energy, and form. The chapter is not a celebrat...
Japanese Theatre in its International Context