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. 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 this book. 'Christian was much more than a teacher, she was an indomitable and extraordinary spirit; the kind of teacher that didn't demand hard work but inspired in her students the desire to want to do well. A contradiction, but she was truly a gentle force of nature' Anna Maxwell Martin 'There was something magical about Christian's classes, a calm and serene environment that inspired each and every student to take risks with themselves and each other. The work was always very thought-provoking and challenging, but ultimately lots of fun' Dominic Cooper