1st Edition

Performer Training and Technology Preparing Our Selves

By Maria Kapsali Copyright 2021
216 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Performer Training and Technology employs philosophical approaches to technology, including postphenomenology and Heidegger’s thinking, to examine the way technology manifests, influences and becomes used in performer training discourse and practice. The book offers in-depth discussions of present and past performer training practices through a lens that has never been applied before;... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2 – Between technique and technology: the actor’s instrument and the actor’s paradox; Chapter 3 - Beyond technique: critiquing technology and actor training in the 1960s; Chapter 4 - Using and Making Tools; Chapter 5 - Training the Homo Cellularis: Attention and the Mobile Phone in Performer Training; Chapter 6 - Training to be captured; Conclusion: Tools for Preparation

Biography

Maria Kapsali is a Lecturer in Physical Performance in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds.