\u2018Training Utopias\u2019 reflects on where the ideals of performance training have been subsumed in the first quarter of the twenty-first century. This is not a historical survey of training practices, but a look at the here and now of practice and praxis in different parts of the world and in different circumstances. The sudden arrival in our midst of COVID-19 has been a shock to the system. The ways that training of performers have been curtailed and our radically shifting distance from one another and audience is sounded here. The various writers included reflect, in part, on personal responses to training and loss during this pandemic\u2014a phenomenon that is likely to continue through 2021 and possibly beyond. Etched in all the articles is the notion that utopias and communities of practice are all artificial constructs undermined over time and through dystopian unravellings.<\/p>\n
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Contents:<\/strong><\/p>\n Training Utopias: Editoria<\/strong>l<\/p>\n Felipe Cervera, Elizabeth De Roza & Michael Earley<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On Profound Loss and Emptiness: A personal reflection on the life of Steve Allison<\/strong><\/p>\n Richard Gough<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Decolonizing Performance Pedagogy. A position paper from Bangalore, South India<\/strong><\/p>\n Shabari Rao<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is Not a Manifesto<\/strong><\/p>\n Electa Woodbridge Behrens<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Parliament of Practices. No-topian tactics for praxical dialogue<\/strong><\/p>\n Adriana La Selva, Marije Nie, Andrea Maciel & Patrick Campbell<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Untraining the Bauhaus. A non-linear workflow for the new (post-hu)man<\/strong><\/p>\n Moritz Frischkorn & Thomas Pearce<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Resisting to Dystopias of Bodily Control. Dance training and anorexia\/bulimia<\/strong><\/p>\n Cec\u00edlia de Lima<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Utopia in Actor Training. The possibilities of an intercultural curriculum<\/strong><\/p>\n Peter Zazzali<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Earthing the Laboratory. Speculations for doctoral training<\/strong><\/p>\n Ben Spatz<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Training Artists in Times of Crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n Laura Bissell, Gary Gardiner, Sarah Hopfinger & Rachel O\u2019Neill<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Circus Training in the Time of Coronavirus<\/strong><\/p>\n Ilaria Bessone<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Communicative Utopias. Training English-speaking subjects in US-occupied Philippines<\/strong><\/p>\n Jr. Oscar Tantoco Serqui\u00f1a<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stop. Rewind. Replay.: Performance, police training and mental health crisis response<\/strong><\/p>\n Natalie Alvarez<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Between Craft and Metaphysics. Ideals and idealizations of \u2018work-on-oneself\u2019 at Jerzy Grotowski\u2019s Laboratory Theatre<\/strong><\/p>\n Duncan Jamieson<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Viewpoints and the Secret of the Original Anarchist: Mary Overlie and the Undercommons<\/strong><\/p>\n Tony Perucci<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dark Utopia. Or sleeping through Marten Sp\u00e5ngberg\u2019s Natten<\/strong><\/p>\n Jonas Rutgeerts<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Utopian Training. The secrets, \u2018schools\u2019 and continents of Edward Gordon Craig and Eugenio Barba<\/strong><\/p>\n Richard Gough<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Magic Circles. Tabletop role-playing games as queer utopian method<\/strong><\/p>\n Felix Rose Kawitzky<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Non-optimized Utopia. Johannes Paul Raether\u2019s education of desire<\/strong><\/p>\n Franziska Bork Petersen<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Exercising Freedom. An Arendtian clown training utopia<\/strong><\/p>\n G\u00f6ze Saner<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Legacy of Kristin Linklater. The loss of a renowned innovator within voice practice<\/strong><\/p>\n Joan Mills & Kristin Linklater<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Actor as Observer-Participant. Mary Overlie, The Six Viewpoints, three memories<\/strong><\/p>\n Tony Perucci<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tempered by Breath. A tribute to Phillip Zarrilli<\/strong><\/p>\n Richard Gough<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n On Shared Resources: Performance studies publications from a pandemic<\/strong><\/p>\n Anna Jayne Kimmel<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Bodies of Others: Drag dances and their afterlives by Selby Wynn Schwartz Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2019; 285 pp.<\/strong><\/p>\n Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Training Beyond<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018Curating the End of the World\u2019 (Part I and Part II) by New York Live Arts<\/strong><\/p>\n Google Arts & Culture, 2020, Organized by Reynaldo Anderson, Tiffany E. Barber and Stacey Robinson with the Black Speculative Arts Movement<\/strong><\/p>\n Thomas F. Defrantz<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Task at Hand: Learning to unlearn in the politics of presence<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a1Presente!: The politics of presence by Diana Taylor Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020; 329 pp.<\/strong><\/p>\n Angel A Marino<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n\n