McLaughlin, James ORCID: 0000-0002-2146-6884 , Turner, Jane, Weston, Sarah and Condron, Aiden (2024) Editorial. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 15 (2):1. pp. 135-142. ISSN 1944-3927 (Print), 1944-3919 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2024.2365586)

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Abstract

Agency is the concept through which we, the Guest editor team for TDPT Volume 15.2, wanted to explore the relationship between the structures of a training regime – a set of repeated and codified practices – and the individuality of the subject in training with their own thoughts, feelings and instincts. The aim of this Special Issue has been to investigate how training systems, institutions and individual practitioners find the balance between serving the discipline and rigour prescribed by training while retaining a sense of autonomy. This Issue emerges from conversations had by members of the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) Performer Training Working Group, which the editors of this issue – James, Jane and Sarah – previously convened. Aiden Condron was subsequently brought into our editorial team to coordinate the Training Grounds section of this issue. In our time with the TaPRA working group, several conference discussions between 2018 and2022 touched on agency and related concepts, brought to the fore in our conference theme in 2021 ‘Training and Agency’, and continuing into our 2022 conference on training lineages. Agency continuously re-appeared in our research and in our practice, in our teaching, and in studio work. It permeated our per-former training relationships: the relationship between teacher and student, or between practitioner and participant. Agency became a concept to help us understand the politics of the training room but also served as an un resolved provocation.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	theatre; dance; performance training; agency
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Stage and Screen
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2024 10:53
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/47912

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