The Space to Move: Essentials of Movement Training

By Christian Darley

The vital building blocks of movement training – a key sourcebook for actors, directors, students and teachers.

In precise detail, Darley sets out the exercises and techniques she developed with her own drama-school students. She deals with the vital building blocks of movement training: awareness, relaxation, tension—particularly Lecoq's Seven States—and suspension, before progressing to areas in which she was a pioneer: animal work, contact work, visual spacing, and the relationship between voice and movement.

'a useful teaching resource and a handy guide for any actor' - Teaching Drama magazine

'Christian was much more than a teacher, she was an indomitable and extraordinary spirit' - Anna Maxwell Martin

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Release date: Mar 28, 2020
• ISBN: 9781788502276

Christian Darley

Christian Darley taught movement at LAMDA and was movement director on many productions there and elsewhere. She also conducted various community workshops and took her work into prisons and schools. She died in her forties in 2008 just after completing her book, The Space to Move.