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Hope, in the bleak mid-winter Theatre, Dance and Performance Training 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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Our contact improvisation partners during lockdown for dancers in training Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Malaika Sarco-Thomas
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 2, 2023)
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Touch in tableau: a powerful moment to break the wall Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Lu Wang
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 2, 2023)
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Editorial Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Ha Young Hwang, Tara McAllister-Viel, Liz Mills, Sara Reed
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 2, 2023)
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Consent-based actor training as the only way forward Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Andrea L. Moor
In her keynote address to The Stage’s Future of Theatre conference, Principal of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (Central) Josette Bushell-Mingo stated that the ‘future of drama training has changed forever’ (Citation2022Bushell-Mingo, Josette. 2022. “The Future of Arts Training Must Be On Our Terms.” The Stage, March 30. https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/josette-bushell-mingo-the-f
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Touch and consent: towards an ethics of care in intimate performance Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Marié-Heleen Coetzee, Kaitlin Groves
Our personal experiences as women working in the performing arts and entertainment sector indicate to us that there is a need for actron-training that includes articulated pedagogical framework and methodological approaches that engage with the performance of intimate content and professional touch. Women’s behaviour and communicative acts are often gendered through socialisation and gender hegemony
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Maintaining the consent-bubble: an intimacy coordinator’s perspective on touch in performance training Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Èmil Haarhoff, Kate Lush
This article sets out to argue that purposefully consenting to touch constructs a metaphorical ‘consent-bubble’ in which only those invited into its parameters (often not including the IC, facilitator or teacher) may engage in touch, considering they comply with its uniquely constructed rules and boundaries. To do so, emphasis is laid on the intricacies, processes and importance of communication and
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The Unclean, ‘touching and training’ in puppetry from Japanese otome bunraku Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Caroline Astell-Burt
‘Training in touching’ aims to refine the knowledge and experience of ‘touching’ in its specific application to puppet-things in motion by those who move them. It opens up unusual concepts such as virtual touch in the spectator, therefore contributing to a practical and theoretical understanding of the lived experience of the ‘puppetry ensemble’, puppeteer-puppet-spectator. An acutely perceptive haptic
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Exploring Rudolf Laban’s flow effort: new parameters of touch Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Juliet Chambers-Coe
This article explores the practice of Rudolf Laban’s Flow Effort as a form of touch which is perceived in the energetic, subtle body of the mover. Central to the discussion is a series of reflections on studio practices undertaken during the Covid-19 pandemic, in Laban for Actors classes, at Rose Bruford College in 2020. In these sessions students and teachers returned to studios wearing masks and
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Theatre in museums: ‘touch it without a touch’ Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Lu Wang
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 2, 2023)
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Touch as a feedback loop: exercising the leap from inertia to activation Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Kristina Johnstone
This article critically reflects on the facilitation of embodied practice in virtual spaces of teaching, learning and creation, specifically looking at ways of facilitating touch within the broader context of decolonising dance and movement practices in South Africa. When working without the touch of another (human)being, I explore how the affordances of environment and surfaces can offer a feedback
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Archiving the healing touch Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Nora Amin
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 2, 2023)
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What a touchy subject! Discussions, reflections and thoughts about touch on the UEL BA (Hons) Dance: Urban Practice course Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Carla Trim-Vamben, Jo Read
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 2, 2023)
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The Little Acorns – it was a touch and go experience Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Saranya Devan
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 2, 2023)
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A repertoire of touch in participatory choreography Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Elvira Crois
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 2, 2023)
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In touch and between: a tactile toolkit for creative practitioners to navigate touch within their creative practice Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Dina Robinson
Abstract Touch in performance and movement practice is not a new concept, although it tends to inhabit movement therapy, partnering techniques, alignment studies, and ethics. However, this article addresses the importance of touch in creative practice with reference to holistic embodied movement, sense of self, one’s agency and situatedness. Employing a somatic methodology and phenomenological lens
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Affective topologies and virtual tactile experiences in theatre training Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Adriana La Selva
My experience as a performer is largely informed by my long-term connection with the Bridge of Winds group, led by Iben Nagel Rasmussen. As a practitioner-researcher however, I am engaged on a new journey, where my embodied knowledge is guiding the construction of a virtual archive for theatre practices. During this process, one of the main issues we are facing is that of renegotiating the sense of
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Queer performance in times of the pandemic: movement, identity, and hope in heart2heart and The Ladder Project Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Gayatri Aich
Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 14, No. 2, 2023)