Radical Sensing and Performer Training

Auteur

Rebecca Loukes is Associate Professor of Performance Practice in the Department of Communications, Drama and Film at University of Exeter and co-founder and co-director of RedCape Theatre.

Texte du rabat

This is a ground-breaking new book that re-considers a range of trajectories of influence across the established canon of twentieth century practices and challenges conventions of performer training historiography.

Contenu

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Training Sensing/Sensing Training

Part I: Elsa Gindler and her work

Chapter 1: Elsa Gindler's body stories: From Gymnastik to sensing

Chapter 2: Concentration in Gindler's work: A conversation with Gelassenheit

Part II: Sensing Gindler's Work in Training and Performance

Chapter 3: Situating Sensing: Gertrud Falke-Heller's Dance Training at Dartington Hall

Chapter 4: The gestalt of breathing: Charlotte Selver, Sensory Awareness and Performer Training

Chapter 5: Staging Sensing: Elaine Summers' Kinetic Awareness and Pauline Oliveros' Sonic Meditations

Chapter 6: 'Invisible' Training and 'Phronetic' Knowledges in RedCape Theatre's Be brave and leave for the unknown

Conclusion: Performer Training Knowledges and Embodied Translations

Index