Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2024)

Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2024)

Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2024)

Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2024)

Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2024)

In July of 2022 following a public call for participation, a collective of South West undergraduate and graduate performance artists came together in order to participate in a residential summer sc...

Published in Research in Dance Education (Ahead of Print, 2024)

The diversity of the South African higher educational student population requires innovative pedagogical strategies that facilitate transformative and collaborative embodied learning. This article ...

The aim of the study is to investigate the construction of street dances in the city of Rio de Janeiro, describing urban dancers and their daily ‘art of doing’, listening to their voices and observ...

In the historically elitist and predominantly White world of ballet, dance companies have attempted to increase diversity, with limited success. One contributing factor may involve differing levels...

Ecoscenography – a framework that reconfigures traditional processes and conceptualisations of designing for performance – offers a unique approach to bringing sustainability into theatre education...

Like all industries, theatre must face the challenge of transitioning to a sustainable future, and in 2021 the Theatre Green Book was created to support that transition. It is now being used widely...

A Tunisian youth movement, Dancers Citizens South (DCS), founded on 31 May 2015, encourages young people to find agency in their communities by creating in music, dance, or theater. DCS invited an ...

The rise of K-pop cover dancers worldwide reveals how artists creatively adapt and transform this genre to suit local priorities. This ethnographic analysis examines two K-pop cover dancer influenc...

This article focuses on a digital contemporary dance practice recently developed and authored as part of the artist-researcher’s own auto-hermeneutic practice-based PhD study. It is through artisti...

Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2024)

Metaphors and diagrams are underutilised in actor training, both for teaching and practice-led research, creating a gap in the literature. Combining practice-led research and phenomenology as a met...

Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2024)

Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2024)

In March 2023, third-year Technical Theatre (Production and Design) students at the University of Salford produced a festival of environmentally engaged design-led performance pieces focused on the...

Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2024)

Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2024)

Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2024)

I am proposing a manifesto for degrowth pedagogies. Designed for Higher Education institutions and theatre pedagogues, I argue the need to develop a system of theatre training based on degrowth the...

If performance training is to retain its relevance for community performers, it will need to foster not only practices of social care but also of bodily care. Responding to my long-term work with c...

This article explores Jacques Lecoq’s movement-based approach to actor training through an ecological lens and its potential impact in fostering embodied eco-consciousness. Reflecting on my experie...

The purpose of this study was to examine teaching strategies utilized by instructors within a dance class for individuals with Parkinson’s, and to describe ways in which dancers respond to the teac...

The way that dance educators think and speak about grading can impact our approaches to assessment and our overall curriculum and pedagogy. Four metaphors are commonly found in conversations around...

This study proposes that the inclusion of the Aragonese jota (a type of folk dance) in The Three-Cornered Hat contributed to interwar transnational modernism. The modern ballet, which opened at the...

A close examination of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s 1962 Seoul performance, as well as Ailey’s influence on Korean dancers’ training and choreography, reveals that Ailey’s impact on Kor...

In this autoethnographic description of her training and teaching philosophy, Chandra Moss-Thorne offers connections between dance history and pedagogy. Explicitly, the article traces Moss-Thorne's...

Published in Research in Dance Education (Vol. 25, No. 3, 2024)

Via Dolorosa is a procession dance created in 1983 by the Israeli choreographer Amir Kolben with Ramla Dance Theater. A reenactment by Galia Lever in 2019 introduced a new dimension by incorporatin...

The field of performer training remains closely entwined with the authorial vision of twentieth Century practitioners. Performers in the context of theatre and dance are still trained to embody spe...

This study seeks to understand the impact of a new distance dance-at-home course on South African university students’ quality of life in the era of pandemic. The following research questions guide...

Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2024)

We are in a new landscape in performer training in the UK in 2024. Student and staff well-being has been seriously impacted by five years of covid-related and socio-political tension. This context ...

This narrative inquiry article tells the story of Al-Sarab Dance School, which began as a series of summer dance workshops taught by Nadra Assaf in the 1980s in and around Byblos, Lebanon. The work...

The COVID-19 pandemic has undeniably imposed significant limitations on all aspects of education, necessitating educators to adopt more creative approaches to deliver high-quality education to stud...

Move into Life with Sandra Reeve, based in West Dorset, UK is a foundation programme in embodiment and teaches the art of being in movement. Addressing the relevance of performance training at the ...

A mixed methods approach for gathering data was adopted to report Level 5, 2nd (N = 34; F27, M7) and Level 6, 3rd (N = 29; M5, F24) year University students’ (N = 63) reflections of dance practice ...

Utilising Pierre Bourdieu’s (1977) concept of ‘doxa’, this article proposes the notion of a ‘doxic agreement’, exploring its relationship with agency in the context of contemporary dance technique ...

The Bridge of Winds is an international research group founded in 1989 by Odin Teatret actress Iben Nagel Rasmussen. For thirty-three years, a core group of artists from 12 countries has met togeth...

Children engage in embodied, imaginative performance in two fundamental ways: universally in socio-dramatic imaginary play and selectively in elective performing arts classes, which, for most child...

Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2024)

This article examines the role of actor training, based on the practices of Monika Pagneux and Philippe Gaulier, in the development of older people’s creativity, empowerment and agency, against a b...

Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2024)

How might ‘agency’ be practiced in the meeting of performer and text? What are the ethical concerns of how these two materials might merge? The analysis draws on the author’s research at the Norweg...

Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2024)

Published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2024)

Among efforts to decolonise and decenter the actor training studio, practitioners and scholars consider the barriers for students who speak English as a Second Language (ESL) and undertake text-bas...

UK based actor trainings often emphasise the acceptance of offers from others, ensconced in the common facilitation of ‘yes, and’. Additionally, there is frequently an assumption that trainings wil...

The social and functional diversity of public educational centres requires continuous assessment of the school organisation and searching for effective methods that generate new forms of communicat...

This in-depth exploration delves into the transformative possibilities of integrating ChatGPT into the realm of dance education. Examining its roles as a learning ally, creative mentor, knowledge t...

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2024)