1st Edition

Performer Training Developments Across Cultures

Edited By Ian Watson Copyright 2001
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

Performer Training is an examination of how actors are trained in different cultures. Beginning with studies of mainstream training in countries such as Poland, Australia, Germany, and the United States, subsequent studies survey: · Some of Asia's traditional training methods and recent experiments in performer training · Eugenio Barba's training methods · Jerzy Grotowski's most recent... Read more
Introduction to the Series, List of Plates, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Part 1: Institutional Training, Part II: The East and Experiments, Part III: Some Recent Trends, Notes on Contributors, Index

Biography

Ian Watson teaches at Rutgers University-Newark where he heads the Theatre Arts Program. He is especially interested in interculturalism in the theatre