Performance, Movement and the Body

Mark Evans

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9780230392533
• eBook ISBN: 9780230392526
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Theatre

Investigating a range of influential movement training practices, this ambitious book considers the significance of professional training to performers and their bodies. Performance training approaches are examined within their wider social and cultural contexts, illuminating their evolution in response to the changing context of theatre practice and production. Adopting a rigorous critical angle, Mark Evans' approach is at the cutting-edge of Theatre scholarship, drawing on interviews with recognised practitioners and considering the implications for movement and the body in the digital age. Engaging and enlightening, this is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Theatre, Drama and Performance wishing to understand and contextualise the theories behind performance training.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• General Editors’ Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction: The Body in Theatre Performance and Training
• 2 Moving into the Mainstream
• 3 Movement, Play and Performance
• 4 Doing Movement Differently: Dance and Circus – Danger, Touch and Sweat
• 5 Movement and the Cultural Context
• 6 Movement and Digitized Performance
• 7 Conclusions
• Bibliography
• Index