Performance Research Volume 14 Issue 2

On Training

Issue editors: Richard Gough & Simon Shepherd

ISBN: 978-0-415-55679

This issue brings together reflections and analyses of training from a variety of specialisms and standpoints, and from various different international cultures and practices. Accounts of particular training regimes – dance, the gym, therapy – sit alongside polemical accounts of what happens to performers when they’re trained – and what they’re trained for. Overview essays suggest and describe generic characterisations of training, its structures and modes of operation. At the same time, specialist studies aim to define how training works, on both body and mind, in order to produce that very particular entity, the trained subject. Lastly, but not least, the issue explores, for both its subjects and indeed its watchers, training as a pleasure. (Photo by Veronique Chance, one of the authors in this issue)

Editorial: On Training

Richard Gough, Simon Shepherd

pp. 1 - 3

Pages from a Lost and Found Family Album

Richard Gough, Simon Shepherd

pp. 3 - 4

The Institution of Training

Simon Shepherd

pp. 5 - 15

Did you say ‘training’?

Josette Féral

pp. 16 - 25

Of Pounds of Flesh and Trojan Horses : Performer training in the twenty-first century

Frank Camilleri

pp. 26 - 34

Pages from a Lost and Found Family Album

Richard Gough, Simon Shepherd

pp. 35

Setting the Stage : Social-environmental and motivational predictors of optimal training engagement

Eleanor Quested, Joan L. Duda

pp. 36 - 45

Movement, Training and Mind : Insights from the perspective of Motologie

Ulf Henrik Göhle

pp. 46 - 52

Pages from a Lost and Found Family Album

Richard Gough, Simon Shepherd

pp. 53

Wood and Waterfall : Puppetry training and its anthropology

Cariad Astles

pp. 54 - 59

Psychological Training for the Actor: A question of plumbing or wiring?

Dick McCaw

pp. 60 - 65

Pages from a Lost and Found Family Album

Richard Gough, Simon Shepherd

pp. 66

Trained Performances of Love and Cruelty Between Species

Peta Tait

pp. 67 - 73

When Train(ing) Derails

Bojana Bauer

pp. 74 - 79

Repetition and the Birth of Language

Piotr Woycicki

pp. 80 - 84

Spinal Snaps: Tracing a back-story of European actor training

Jonathan Pitches

pp. 85 - 95

On the Production of the Body Ideal

Véronique Chance

pp. 96 - 102

Acting Freely

John Matthews

pp. 103 - 112

Pages from a Lost and Found Family Album

Richard Gough, Simon Shepherd

pp. 113

Partisan Warfare: Training, commitment and the politics of entertainment

Wolf-Dieter Ernst

pp. 114 - 118

In Permanent Process of Reinvention

Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Roberto Sifuentes, Kimberlee Pérez

pp. 119 - 128

Pages from a Lost and Found Family Album

Richard Gough, Simon Shepherd

pp. 129

Book Review: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh

David Williams

pp. 130 - 131

Notes on Contributors

pp. 132 - 134

Pages from a Lost and Found Family Album

Richard Gough, Simon Shepherd

pp. 134