Many teachers may not have Litz Pisk on their radar, although she is considered someone who revolutionised actor-movement training in post-war Britain. This fourth edition of her practical exercises sports a new introduction by Ayse Tashkiran, a professional movement director and senior lecturer at Central School of Speech and Drama. Tashkiran's enlightening extended essay contextualises and connects Pisk with emerging movement practitioners of the early 20th century. She traces Pisk's development from interdisciplinary beginnings in Vienna – a cauldron of European creativity at the time – through a career in Britain as both an innovative movement teacher and professional movement director, working with theatre's eminent Michael Elliot.
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