Description
This issue brings together reflections and analyses of training from a variety of specialisms and standpoints, and from various different international cultures and practices. Accounts of particular training regimes – dance, the gym, therapy – sit alongside polemical accounts of what happens to performers when they’re trained – and what they’re trained for. Overview essays suggest and describe generic characterisations of training, its structures and modes of operation. At the same time, specialist studies aim to define how training works, on both body and mind, in order to produce that very particular entity, the trained subject. Lastly, but not least, the issue explores, for both its subjects and indeed its watchers, training as a pleasure.
(Photo by Veronique Chance, one of the authors in this issue)
Editorial: On Training
Richard Gough, Simon Shepherd
pp. 1 – 3
Pages from a Lost and Found Family Album
Richard Gough, Simon Shepherd
pp. 3 – 4
The Institution of Training
Simon Shepherd
pp. 5 – 15
Did you say ‘training’?
Josette Féral
pp. 16 – 25
Of Pounds of Flesh and Trojan Horses : Performer training in the twenty-first century
Frank Camilleri
pp. 26 – 34
Pages from a Lost and Found Family Album
Richard Gough, Simon Shepherd
pp. 35
Setting the Stage : Social-environmental and motivational predictors of optimal training engagement
Eleanor Quested, Joan L. Duda
pp. 36 – 45
Movement, Training and Mind : Insights from the perspective of Motologie
Ulf Henrik Göhle
pp. 46 – 52
Pages from a Lost and Found Family Album
Richard Gough, Simon Shepherd
pp. 53
Wood and Waterfall : Puppetry training and its anthropology
Cariad Astles
pp. 54 – 59
Psychological Training for the Actor: A question of plumbing or wiring?
Dick McCaw
pp. 60 – 65
Pages from a Lost and Found Family Album
Richard Gough, Simon Shepherd
pp. 66
Trained Performances of Love and Cruelty Between Species
Peta Tait
pp. 67 – 73
When Train(ing) Derails
Bojana Bauer
pp. 74 – 79
Repetition and the Birth of Language
Piotr Woycicki
pp. 80 – 84
Spinal Snaps: Tracing a back-story of European actor training
Jonathan Pitches
pp. 85 – 95
On the Production of the Body Ideal
Véronique Chance
pp. 96 – 102
Acting Freely
John Matthews
pp. 103 – 112
Pages from a Lost and Found Family Album
Richard Gough, Simon Shepherd
pp. 113
Partisan Warfare: Training, commitment and the politics of entertainment
Wolf-Dieter Ernst
pp. 114 – 118
In Permanent Process of Reinvention
Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Roberto Sifuentes, Kimberlee Pérez
pp. 119 – 128
Pages from a Lost and Found Family Album
Richard Gough, Simon Shepherd
pp. 129
Book Review: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh
David Williams
pp. 130 – 131
Notes on Contributors
pp. 132 – 134
Pages from a Lost and Found Family Album
Richard Gough, Simon Shepherd
pp. 134
