TaPRA 2019

Performer training, movement, physical theatre, Jacques Lecoq, Jacques Copeau, actor training.Jacques Lecoq’s Twenty MovementsThe twenty movements set of exercises is used during the first year of the training at the Lecoq School in Paris as a structure for the development of technique... Read More →

An Exercise is a Lever – ‘teaching’ training.For the past decade (within a conservatoire context), I have been ‘training training’ as a distinct practice for undergraduate performers – a ‘meta-training’ as it were. In this paper, I will set out to unpack some of my... Read More →

Recipes, Experiments and ExperiencesThe role of the exercise in the theatre laboratoryEugenio Barba has stated that the Polish Theatre Laboratory’s exercises were “an atomic bomb [that] explode[d] in the professional environment, upsetting the mental habits and the practice of... Read More →