Bursting with energy and ideas, and written with passion and commitment, The Space to Move is a key sourcebook on movement training 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. The book ends with chapters on working with children and working with soldiers. The volume as a whole cannot fail to inspire and instruct all practitioners who seek to incorporate movement into actor training or theatre work in general.After studying Classics at Oxford and training in movement in Paris, Christian Darley taught movement at LAMDA from 1993 onwards 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.