Lessac Kinesensic Training as an embodied learning model in undergraduate actor training: the Nigerian example

Abstract

This article addresses the significance of voice, speech, body and mind training for the undergraduate trainee-actor with an emphasis on the embodiment of a pedagogy that encompasses all the ever-growing demand of the actor. The trainee while considering the
vocal aspects of delivery finds herself engaging with Lessac Kinesensic Training (LKT), a model that grows the undergraduate trainee actor in an organic manner, leading from understanding, self-to-self teaching to being able to guide other actors on a journey to  embodying the training and translating it to the acting discipline and everyday life. The ethics of LKT cannot be overemphasised as it builds the trainee-actor not only for classroom action but for global acting appreciation. The body and vocal energies types that springs out of the actor can only give new learners an opportunity to invest in the LKT pedagogy. Through an introductory approach, trainee-actor continues to, in different performance spaces, develop the holistic tools instinctively and organically.