Time and Performer Training

Mark Evans, Konstantinos Thomaidis (Exeter University, UK), Libby Worth (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)

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Routledge
12 February 2019

Performance art; Acting techniques; Cultural studies

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.

Edited by: Mark Evans, Konstantinos Thomaidis (Exeter University, UK), Libby Worth (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 498g
ISBN: 9780815396277
ISBN 10: 0815396279
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 12 February 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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).

Reviews for Time and Performer Training

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