Description
Book SynopsisStepping Stones is the book of a practitioner. It documents the work of a laboratory-based practice that investigated the principles of collective improvisation as a performance practice. Though the dynamics and mechanisms of collective work and improvisation have been amply researched in training and composition contexts, not so can be said in the context of performance. Ingemar Lindh's research, which announces a resistance to choreography, fixed scores, and directorial montage, has significant implications for the practice and theory of performance in a post-dramatic age. Stepping Stones is, to quote Lindh himself, a book not written but spoken' in the sense that it is a collection of transcripts and writings by and about Lindh. The first two chapters are based on a transcript of a workshop held in Porsgrunn (Norway) in 1981. In these chapters Lindh's unique work on performer process (including the adaptation of isometric training for actors) is expounded in the
Table of Contents
Preface to the Italian edition - Acknowledgements - Introduction to the English edition by Frank Camilleri - 1. In Search of Research - Introduction: A Hypothesis - The Actor: Poetry and Technique - 2. Catching the Moment of Eternity - Training - Frescoes - Immobility - The Actor - Incarnation - Alternation - Collective Improvisation - Stepping Stones - 3. 'Dear Friend...' - First Letter to Bengt Häger - Second Letter to Bengt Häger - 4. The Transparent Man - An Interview with Ingemar Lindh by Paolo Martini - 5. Institut för Scenkonst - AChronology by Magdalena Pietruska - 1971-1996: Twenty-Five Years of Research, Pedagogy, Performances - Post Scriptum - Munkängen 1998-2001 - Index of Performances - Index of Photographs - Glossary of Terms by Frank Camilleri - Index
