Time and Performer Training / Edition 1

by Mark Evans, Konstantinos Thomaidis, Libby Worth

Overview

Time and Performer Training addresses the importance and centrality of time and temporality to the practices, processes and conceptual thinking of performer training. Notions of time are embedded in almost every aspect of performer training, and so contributors to this book look at:

• age/aging and children in the training context
• how training impacts over a lifetime
• the duration of training and the impact of training regimes over time
• concepts of timing and the ‘right’ time
• how time is viewed from a range of international training perspectives
• collectives, ensembles and fashions in training, their decay or endurance

Through focusing on time and the temporal in performer training, this book offers innovative ways of integrating research into studio practices. It also steps out beyond the more traditional places of training to open up time in relation to contested training practices that take place online, in festival spaces and in folk or amateur practices.

Ideal for both instructors and students, each section of this well-illustrated book follows a thematic structure and includes full-length chapters alongside shorter provocations. Featuring contributions from an international range of authors who draw on their backgrounds as artists, scholars and teachers, Time and Performer Training is a major step in our understanding of how time affects the preparation for performance.

Chapter 16 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815396284
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/06/2019
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

MARK EVANS is Professor of Theatre Training at Coventry University. He trained with Jacques Lecoq in Paris and has published widely on performer training and physical theatre, including: Movement Training for the Modern Actor (2009), The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq (2016) and Performance, Movement and the Body (2019).

KONSTANTINOS THOMAIDIS is Lecturer in Drama, Theatre & Performance at the University of Exeter and the Artistic Director of AdriftPM. He is founding co-editor of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies and the Routledge Voice Studies series. His latest book is Theatre & Voice (2017).

LIBBY WORTH is Reader in Contemporary Performance at Royal Holloway. She trained with Anna Halprin and in the Feldenkrais Method. She is co-editor of the journal Theatre, Dance and Performance Training and her most recent book is Jasmin Vardimon’s Dance Theatre: Movement, Memory and Metaphor (2017).

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Section I: (Re)Introducing time

Section II: About time: narratives of time

Section III: On time: temporalizing time through technique

Section IV: Over time: age, duration, longevity

Section V: Out of time: beyond presence and the present

Section VI: From time to times: expansive temporalities

Index

Editorial Reviews

"Time and Performer Training offers an engaging exploration of diverse ways in which matters of time affect how performers train. This richly informative book offers a well-woven tapestry of practices that hinge on how time is viewed, felt, and fashioned in a broad array of training practices. The editors of this collection of essays took a deliberately wide approach to a topic that depends on a diversity of cultural traditions, personal preferences, methodological stances, and disciplinary contexts."

Luis Arata, Review for KronoScope

"Time and Performer Training offers an engaging exploration of diverse ways in which matters of time affect how performers train. This richly informative book offers a well-woven tapestry of practices that hinge on how time is viewed, felt, and fashioned in a broad array of training practices. The editors of this collection of essays took a deliberately wide approach to a topic that depends on a diversity of cultural traditions, personal preferences, methodological stances, and disciplinary contexts."

Luis Arata, Review for KronoScope

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