Presence and Pre-Expressivity 2

This edition focuses on the "pre-expressive" and a range of related concepts: "score", "underscore", or "subscore", text and performance-text, the body and mind of the performer, cultural and linguistic embedding, and "presence" or the "pre-performative".

Ralph Yarrow teaches Drama and European Literature at the University of East Anglia.

Body in Mind: Exploring Pre-Expressivity; Peter Brook and Traditional Thought; Grotowski, Holiness, and the Pre-Expressive; Barba's Concepts of the Pre-Expressive and the Third Organ of the Body of the Theatre and Theories of Consciousness; Pre-Expressivity: Some Thoughts from the Rehearsal Floor; Endnote: The Range of Approaches