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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 investigations
The Japanese American NOHO companies attempts at integrating Kyogen into the works of Samuel Beckett
Descriptions of the training methods developed by Tadashi Suzuki and Anne Bogart at their Saratoga International Theatre Institute
Recent efforts to re-examine the role and scope of training, like Britain's International Workshop Festival and the European League of Institutes of Arts masterclasses
The reformulation of the use of emotions in performer training known as Alba Emoting.

Performer Training: Developments Across Cultures

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      Publisher: Gordon and Breach
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/11/2001
      ISBN13: 9789057551222, 978-9057551222
      ISBN10: 9057551225

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 investigations
      The Japanese American NOHO companies attempts at integrating Kyogen into the works of Samuel Beckett
      Descriptions of the training methods developed by Tadashi Suzuki and Anne Bogart at their Saratoga International Theatre Institute
      Recent efforts to re-examine the role and scope of training, like Britain's International Workshop Festival and the European League of Institutes of Arts masterclasses
      The reformulation of the use of emotions in performer training known as Alba Emoting.

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