1st Edition

Turn That Thing Off! Collaboration and Technology in 21st-Century Actor Training

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

As personal technology becomes ever-present in the classroom and rehearsal studio, its use and ubiquity is affecting the collaborative behaviors that should underpin actor training. How is the collaborative impulse being distracted and what kind of solutions can re-establish its connections? The daily work of a theater practitioner thrives on an ability to connect, empathize, and participate... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Collaborative Gene 

Chapter 2: The growing isolation of the Collaborative Gene

Chapter 3: Impact of technology on collaborative behaviors

Chapter 4: Why are acting students choosing to isolate instead of collaborate?

Chapter 5: Rekindling the Collaborative Gene

Chapter 6: We are the people to solve this problem

Appendices 

Biography

Rose Burnett Bonczek is Director of the BFA Acting Program and Professor of Theater at Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA.

Roger Manix is an adjunct lecturer in the BFA Acting Program at Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA, and at Parsons School of Design at The New School, New York, USA. He is the owner of Brooklyn Training Ground, an acting studio in New York.

David Storck is Professor of Performing Arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia, USA.