Find Your 'It' Factor - Jacqui Hall Cuny

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Auteur(s) : Jacqui Hall Cuny

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/03/2026

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 240.0

ISBN : 1350551430

Résumé :

Foreword by Philip Quast
Preface

PART ONE
Chapter 1 - Introduction - All the World's a Stage
Chapter 2 - Getting to Know It (Getting to Know All About It)
Chapter 3 - Unpacking the Synergy Equation: Finding the Parts of the Sum
Chapter 4 - Extrinsic Factors: Transactional Interactions Making Synergistic Connections
Chapter 5 - Constructing the Sum From the Parts: Ways of Thinking, Being and Doing
Chapter 6 - Making Synergy Magic: Creating the 'Greater Than' Aspect
Chapter 7 - What It Is and What It Isn't
Chapter 8 - Where Does It Come From, and Where Does It Go?

PART TWO
Chapter 9 - Unlocking your It - Introducing Your SASS Toolkit and Play Space
Chapter 10 - Toolkit Techniques: Whole Self-Activation and Breathing
Chapter 11 - Toolkit Techniques: Acting and Singing
Chapter 12 - Toolkit Techniques - Physicality and Psychology
Chapter 13 - Putting It Together: Tools, Song Study and Case Studies

PART THREE
Chapter 14 - Living Out Your It Factor: Five P's and Eleven C's
Chapter 15 - Give Yourself Permission to Shine!

Appendices
Endnotes

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Biographie:
Jacqui Hall Cuny is a Musical Theatre researcher, pedagogue, creative director, and performer with 44 years of professional experience in Australia and overseas. A graduate of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, she has multi-disciplinary connections to the Australian performing arts industry. She has performed, taught and presented her research in Australia and internationally and maintains strong affiliations with the staff of Australia's top tertiary musical theatre courses and currently coaches some of Australia's professional actors....

Sommaire:
that magical, ephemeral energy that has defied explanation - until now.

Find Your 'It' Factor is an informative handbook for anyone seeking to explore their personal light or re-ignite their inner flame, onstage or off. Explored through musical theatre performance, this guide combines original research with practical application which in turn helps you understand the essential elements that make up the 'It' factor, elevating your performance beyond the ordinary.

Drawing on years of practical experience within the professional world of musical theatre in the UK and Australia, Jacqui Hall Cuny introduces and unpacks the concept of 'It' in relation to performance. Using theory and primary research, she asks: what does it mean to have 'It'?...