Performer Training and Technology - Preparing Our Selves

Performer Training and Technology employs philosophical approaches to technology, including postphenomenology and Heidegger-s thinking, to examine the way technology manifests, influences and becomes used in performer training discourse and practice.

The book offers in-depth discussions of present and past performer training practices through a lens that has never been applied before; considers the employment of key digital artefacts; and develops a series of analytical tools that can be useful in scholarly and practical explorations. An array of intriguing subjects are covered including the role of electric lights in Stanislavsky-s work on concentration; the use of handheld tools, such as sticks in Zarrilli-s psychophysical training and Meyerhold-s Biomechanics; the emergence of new forms of training in relation to motion capture technology; and the way the mobile phone complicates notions and practices of attention in learning and training contexts.

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