Movement for Actors

Conclusions based upon existing practice and needs in applications of LMA to actor training:After reviewing the literature relating the use of LMA to actor training, there seems to be a paucity of written material - and very few references to the Body and Shape areas of LMA. There also seems to be a narrow view in the theatre training world of the scope of LMA and how that can support a total training for the actor. It is the collaborators view that LMA can serve as an umbrella around and support for other systems, philosophies, and individual titans of theatre training-ie Stanislavski, Chekov, Meyerhold, Grotowski.
Acting directions such as getting at more "truth" are inspirational but they do not address the chain of events and intrinsic elements that work together to create a whole and authentic expression. What are needed are tools, a paradigm and structure within with to view what works and what doesn’t…what specifically needs to be considered to get at that truth.