Time and Performer Training

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.

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).

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