Performer Training

<p><em>Performer Training</em> 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:<br> · Some of Asia's traditional training methods and recent experiments in performer training <br> · Eugenio Barba's training methods <br> · Jerzy Grotowski's most recent investigations <br> · The Japanese American NOHO companies attempts at integrating Kyogen into the works of Samuel Beckett <br> · Descriptions of the training methods developed by Tadashi Suzuki and Anne Bogart at their Saratoga International Theatre Institute <br> · 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 <br> · The reformulation of the use of emotions in performer training known as Alba Emoting.</p> Introduction to the Series, List of Plates, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Part 1: Institutional Training, Part II: The East and Experiments, Part III: Some Recent Trends, Notes on Contributors, Index