Performer Training and Technology: Preparing Our Selves

Performer Training and Technology employs philosophical approaches to technology, including postphenomenology and Heidegger’s thinking, to examine the way technology manifests, influences and becomes used in performer training discourse and practice.

The book offers in-depth discussions of present and past performer training practices through a lens that has never been applied before; considers the employment of key digital artefacts; and develops a series of analytical tools that can be useful in scholarly and practical explorations. An array of intriguing subjects are covered including the role of electric lights in Stanislavsky’s work on concentration; the use of handheld tools, such as sticks in Zarrilli’s psychophysical training and Meyerhold’s Biomechanics; the emergence of new forms of training in relation to motion capture technology; and the way the mobile phone complicates notions and practices of attention in learning and training contexts.

This book is of vital relevance to performer training scholars and practitioners; theatre, performance, and dance scholars and students; and especially those interested in philosophies of technology.

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Performer Training and Technology: Preparing Our Selves

Performer Training and Technology employs philosophical approaches to technology, including postphenomenology and Heidegger’s thinking, to examine the way technology manifests, influences and becomes used in performer training discourse and practice.

The book offers in-depth discussions of present and past performer training practices through a lens that has never been applied before; considers the employment of key digital artefacts; and develops a series of analytical tools that can be useful in scholarly and practical explorations. An array of intriguing subjects are covered including the role of electric lights in Stanislavsky’s work on concentration; the use of handheld tools, such as sticks in Zarrilli’s psychophysical training and Meyerhold’s Biomechanics; the emergence of new forms of training in relation to motion capture technology; and the way the mobile phone complicates notions and practices of attention in learning and training contexts.

This book is of vital relevance to performer training scholars and practitioners; theatre, performance, and dance scholars and students; and especially those interested in philosophies of technology.

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Performer Training and Technology: Preparing Our Selves

Performer Training and Technology: Preparing Our Selves

by Maria Kapsali
Performer Training and Technology: Preparing Our Selves

Performer Training and Technology: Preparing Our Selves

by Maria Kapsali

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Performer Training and Technology employs philosophical approaches to technology, including postphenomenology and Heidegger’s thinking, to examine the way technology manifests, influences and becomes used in performer training discourse and practice.

The book offers in-depth discussions of present and past performer training practices through a lens that has never been applied before; considers the employment of key digital artefacts; and develops a series of analytical tools that can be useful in scholarly and practical explorations. An array of intriguing subjects are covered including the role of electric lights in Stanislavsky’s work on concentration; the use of handheld tools, such as sticks in Zarrilli’s psychophysical training and Meyerhold’s Biomechanics; the emergence of new forms of training in relation to motion capture technology; and the way the mobile phone complicates notions and practices of attention in learning and training contexts.

This book is of vital relevance to performer training scholars and practitioners; theatre, performance, and dance scholars and students; and especially those interested in philosophies of technology.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781138677814
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 10/06/2020
Series: Perspectives on Performer Training
Pages: 216
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Maria Kapsali is a Lecturer in Physical Performance in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds.

Table of Contents

List of figures ix

Preface x

Acknowledgements xiii

1 Introduction 1

What is performer training? - an expanded field 8

What is technology? 11

Performer training and the digital 14

Methodology and themes 20

Outline of the book 23

2 Between technique and technology: the actor's instrument and the actor's paradox 30

Introduction 30

Part I 36

Part II 46

Part III 50

Conclusion: how does performer training become technological? 53

3 Beyond technique: critiquing technology and actor training in the 1960s 60

Introduction 60

American avant-garde theatre in the 1960s 63

Critiquing technology: Martin Heidegger and Herbert Marcuse 68

Techne: artworks and aesthetic sensibility 72

Training for liberation: avant-garde theatre and training practice 75

The Open Theatre 77

Conclusion: the promise of avant-garde actor training 84

4 Using and making tools 89

Introduction 89

Intra- and extra-organic tools 94

I-Technology-World relationships in performer training 98

Conclusion 111

5 Training the homo cellularis: attention and the mobile phone in performer training 120

Introduction 120

Training attention 128

Attention beyond distraction 132

Feel/Hear/See/Do: towards a practice of polyattentiveness 135

Conclusion: performer training as a practice of immunity? 142

6 Training to be captured 147

Introduction 147

'Training for' motion capture 153

'Training with' motion capture 163

'I mining for' - 'Training with': a dialectic 170

Conclusion 177

Conclusion: tools for preparation 182

Index 190

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