2011 Theme: What future for Performer Training?
The C20th and C21st Performer Training Working Group has been meeting for six years and has produced several collaborative outputs, including a chapter on Research Methods for the Laboratory and a twice-yearly journal dedicated to training. The co-convenors are delighted to issue a call for papers for the forthcoming conference at Kingston in September. We are asking for presentation possibilities in three formats:
• formal papers (max 20 minutes)
• provocations or position statements (max 10 minutes)
• instances of practice as research or short workshops/demonstrations (1hour).
In response to the seismic shifts in the UK context of performer training since the last TaPRA gathering, the convenors welcome proposals that relate to or emerge from our overall theme for 2011 and/or any of the following subthemes:
1. Contemporary political economies and their impact on C21st performer training: will 'deep' training be at all possible in the HE sector in the future?
2. The intuitive performer: what place does intuition have in STEM Britain?
3. Lineages of training and performance: what roots might we appeal to in constructing a future for performer training?
4. Disseminating training: what forms of dissemination best offer resistance and explain the value of performer training?
5. Transference: what is the impact of performer training and where will it be felt in the future?
This is neither an exhaustive nor a prescriptive list and we will be delighted to consider proposals that do not fit into any of the above categories.
Circulation of Paper based presentations in advance of the conference
Papers are circulated in advance of the conference, so paper contributors should be prepared to have a full paper by early August.
Submitting a Proposal
Please send 250 word (max) proposals with brief biography and resource needs to all of the three convenors (details below) by 3rd May 2011. We will let you know by 20th May whether or not your paper has been accepted.
We welcome questions and conversations prior to this date if any colleagues need
advice and/or clarification on any aspect of the above. Please note that our group also welcomes participation at the conference from colleagues who do not wish to submit papers or other presentations.
Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (TDPT)
Papers may be considered for further development and publication in the new Routledge Journal TDPT, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rtdp
We very much look forward to hearing from you.
Co-convenors
Simon Murray, Dept of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Glasgow.
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Jonathan Pitches, School of Performance & Cultural Industries, University of Leeds.
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
David Shirley, School of Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University.
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
