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The Road Not Taken: the importance of creative and experimental methods in training new acting students Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Rouzbeh Hosseini
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Towards a trauma informed pedagogy in actor training: knowledge and agency Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Jessica Hartley
We are in a new landscape in performer training in the UK in 2024. Student and staff well-being has been seriously impacted by five years of covid-related and socio-political tension. This context ...
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Skills for the edge of extinction Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Sandra Reeve
Move into Life with Sandra Reeve, based in West Dorset, UK is a foundation programme in embodiment and teaches the art of being in movement. Addressing the relevance of performance training at the ...
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Spaces of agency: exploring text-bodyworld hybrids Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Electa Behrens
How might ‘agency’ be practiced in the meeting of performer and text? What are the ethical concerns of how these two materials might merge? The analysis draws on the author’s research at the Norweg...
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Finding agency in the imagined body through Unreal Engine’s Live Link performance capture Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Darren Daly
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Building a culture of collaboration with rules, norms, and community agreements Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Kim Shively, Susanne Shawyer
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘Call Me by My Name’: inclusive actor training for second language users Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Evi Stamatiou
Among efforts to decolonise and decenter the actor training studio, practitioners and scholars consider the barriers for students who speak English as a Second Language (ESL) and undertake text-bas...
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Constructing codes of behaviour: the ‘doxic agreement’ as a force for agency in contemporary dance technique training Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk
Utilising Pierre Bourdieu’s (1977) concept of ‘doxa’, this article proposes the notion of a ‘doxic agreement’, exploring its relationship with agency in the context of contemporary dance technique ...
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From schema to rhuthmos: the idiorrhythmic encounters of the bridge of winds Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Patrick Campbell
The Bridge of Winds is an international research group founded in 1989 by Odin Teatret actress Iben Nagel Rasmussen. For thirty-three years, a core group of artists from 12 countries has met togeth...
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Habits of creativity: agency and children’s drama practice in imaginary play and elective classes Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Roger Farrell
Children engage in embodied, imaginative performance in two fundamental ways: universally in socio-dramatic imaginary play and selectively in elective performing arts classes, which, for most child...
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Mind over matter Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Lydia Perfitt
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Pushing the boundaries: How the actor training practices of Monika Pagneux and Philippe Gaulier may engender experiences of agency and empowerment in older theatre-makers Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Sarah Kemp
This article examines the role of actor training, based on the practices of Monika Pagneux and Philippe Gaulier, in the development of older people’s creativity, empowerment and agency, against a b...
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Are you scared of me? – The power of demeanour in teaching actors Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Lauren S. Williams
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘Yes, and’ and ‘No, although’: Inviting dissent and difference towards agency as part of multi-representative practice in actor training Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-05 Dana Blackstone
UK based actor trainings often emphasise the acceptance of offers from others, ensconced in the common facilitation of ‘yes, and’. Additionally, there is frequently an assumption that trainings wil...
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The Nomadic Studio – dream-weaving a proposal for performer training Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Mark Evans
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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A model of Buddhist-Somatic practice in Thai performer training Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Tanatchaporn Kittikong
This research project explores a possible performer training model of Buddhist-Somatic as a training method and approach to performance making. Using Thai Theravada Buddhist philosophy and its prac...
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Sanctuary on the fault line: environmental dance practice as liminal critique and refuge Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Andrew Sanger
This article argues that the COVID-19 pandemic engendered a sort of global, yet unequal, liminal phenomenon. Further, ritual and performance may occur as responses to such liminal crises and act as...
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Hope, in the bleak mid-winter Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Misri Dey, with Sara Reed, Thomas Wilson
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2024)
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‘Training and access’ Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Jane Streeton
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2024)
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Access and imagination Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Jeni Seo
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2024)
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Postcard Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Rob Roznowski
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2024)
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Architectures of access Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Lucy Curtis
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2024)
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Interview with Padma Shri S. R. D. Prasad: On the Martial Art Form of Kalarippayattu Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Aparna Nandha, Aneesh V. Suresh
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2024)
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The use of Body-Mind Centering® to support training in Michael Chekhov’s acting technique Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Luciana Paula Castilho Barone
This article discusses the confluence of Body-Mind Centering (BMC)® practices with elements of Michael Chekhov’s technique as foundations for an integrated psychophysical approach to acting that do...
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Mental health & the acting studio Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Rob Roznowski
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2024)
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An actor and a monk: discovering and navigating impulses Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Jeni Seo
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2024)
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Linguistic bodies: cognitive science and Stanislavsky’s last words Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Rhonda Blair
This article takes key areas of cognitive science - including enactivism, 4E cognition, cognitive ecologies, and cognitive linguistics – to explore the connections between these relatively new scie...
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‘Stanislavsky and mindfulness, a one-day symposium’ hosted at London South Bank University on April 20th, 2023, in partnership with the S word Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Tom Sanigar (Davis)
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2024)
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Moving Matter: A methodology for material-led collaborations Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Rob Kitsos, Meagan Woods
Interdisciplinary movement artists and educators Rob Kitsos and Meagan Woods share the process behind Moving Matter: material-led collaborative choreographies, a research-creation project that offe...
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Stages of reckoning: antiracist and decolonial actor training Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Evi Stamatiou
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 4, 2023)
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Editorial Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Jonathan Pitches, Libby Worth, Roanna Mitchell
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 4, 2023)
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‘And all the men and women merely players’: theatre training in VR Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Klaus Kruse, Ciaran Clarke
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 4, 2023)
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Transformations across time and space Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Carolyn Defrin, Elena Marchevska
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 4, 2023)
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Postcards from the unreal engine Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Megan Beckwith
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 4, 2023)
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Training and the virtual: the second Mouth cyborg Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Darlane Litaay
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 4, 2023)
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Training and the virtual: body network Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Josipa Bubas
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 4, 2023)
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Give yourself permission Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Yasmeen Katayoun Kavita Sangha
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 4, 2023)
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After the empty space: from traditional settings to new creative ecologies Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Eleni Kolliopoulou
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 4, 2023)
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Monika Pagneux (1927–2023): a kind of obituary Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Simon Murray
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 4, 2023)
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Turtlenecks and a bad attitude: student drama as director training Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Emma Large
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2023)
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Positivity Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 James Yarker
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2023)
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What can an accomplice accomplish? Thinking about casting, point of view, and anti-racism in director training Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 John Michael DiResta
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2023)
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Editorial Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Adam J. Ledger, Avra Sidiropoulou, Thomas Wilson
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2023)
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Training for resilience Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Avra Sidiropoulou
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2023)
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Director’s fear and self-cultivation Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Tamur Tohver
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2023)
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Musicality and transformative mise-en-scène: Ten principles for teaching theatre directing as composition Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 George Rodosthenous
In this article I investigate how my own directorial influences are infiltrated and disseminated in the teaching of theatre directing. My own studies and background in music composition have shaped...
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Personal development as director training: a dramatic dialogue Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Helen Tennison
If our aim is theatre that is genuinely inclusive, relevant, and able to respond to the continuing developments of the (post-)COVID world, then we need directors who are flexible enough to respond ...
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What about director training? A story of 30 years – ‘back into the future’ Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Karolina Spaic
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2023)
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Director training: a mine field or brave new world? Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Gabrielle Metcalf, Andrew Lewis
The relative paucity of research on directing reflects the way in which the practice of directing occurs – behind closed-doors (Trousdell 1992). Despite the power afforded to directors, the literat...
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To unfold the wings Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Gabriela Arancibia Villagra
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2023)
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Director training and education: models from Brazil and the UK Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Pedro de Senna, Bruce Adams, Adriana Schneider Alcure
This paper presents a conversation that took place via Zoom on 6 September 2022, between Adriana Schneider Alcure and Bruce Adams, curated by Pedro de Senna. In it, Alcure and Adams discuss their e...
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Moving in a different direction (directing down under): the evolution of director training into studies of ‘creative leadership’ in an Australian context Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Shane Pike
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2023)
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‘Trust me, kid’: leadership style and how we train directors to talk to actors Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Donna Soto-Morettini
This article considers some of the most relevant literature in business organisational studies and sports performance studies to see how we might apply work in these areas when training directors. ...
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How do directors train? Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Anne Bogart
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2023)
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Language Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Lotte Faarup
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2023)
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Actor training underwater in the future Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 John Matthews
An account and report on the findings of the Story Futures funded research project, Watercourse: Actor Training and Virtual Production in Immersive Dome Spaces, with project partners, Theatre Royal...
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Jacques Copeau in tune with romanticism, hand in hand with Rousseau: from the myth of child’s innocence to the problems of actor’s consciousness Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Rodrigo Scalari
The article examines the relationship between Jacques Copeau’s innovative approach to actor training and the romantic ideals associated with the figure of the child that prevailed at the turn of th...
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Applied theatre training: theatre for Democracy and knowledge exchange Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Samuel McKay
This article draws from a research project that sought to map knowledge exchange movements in student led projects delivered as part of a final year module of the Applied Theatre and Community Dram...
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‘It shouldn’t be necessary, but it happens a lot’: Undergraduate contemporary dancers’ perceptions of pain, injury, and fatigue Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Jenna Magrath, Vanessa Paglione, Lindsay Morrison, Sarah J. Kenny
Contemporary dancers are at risk for musculoskeletal injury due to the choreographic, artistic, and physical demands of the form. Group norms such as persevering through and normalization of pain a...
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Tactile renegotiations in actor training: what the pandemic taught us about touch Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Christina Kapadocha
This article draws from the practice-research project under the umbrella title ‘From Haptic Deprivation to Haptic Possibilities’. The project began as a response to the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK in March 2020 and the necessary transition to online interactions. As a practitioner-researcher who has been critically investigating tactile possibilities through somatically inspired methods within