Dorinda Hulton is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Drama, freelance theater director and dramaturg. Her practice-as-research is focused on ‘the creative actor’ and the development of the actor’s psychophysical resources. She trained and qualified as a yoga teacher directly under B.K.S. Iyengar in Pune, India, and in drama, voice and speech at the Royal School of Speech and Drama, London. Her publications in print include ‘Joseph Chaikin and aspects of actor training’ (2010), in A. Hodge (ed.), Actor Training. London: Routledge; and publication through performance includes documentation at www.dorindahulton.co.uk.
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Yoga postures (Asanas) seen in the videos with their Sanskrit
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Yoga and Actor Training offers a practical introduction to, as well as a
discursive overview of, the ways yoga practice can be used in contemporary actor
training. Approaches explored in this series of audio-visually recorded
workshops with student actors lay down some of the foundational correspondences
in the relationship between yoga and actor training. Together with contextual
essays, the videos are designed to support and encourage further collaboration
between the two disciplines.