Methuen Drama Performer Training Reconfigured: Post-psychophysical Perspectives for the Twenty-first Century (Performance Books)

Offering a radical re-evaluation of current approaches to performer training, this is a text that equips readers with a set of new ways of thinking about and ultimately 'doing' training. Stemming from his extensive practice and incorporating a review of prevailing methods and theories, Frank Camilleri focuses on how material circumstances shape and affect processes of training, devising, rehearsing and performing. Frank Camilleri puts forward the 'post-psychophysical' as a more extended form of psychophysical discussion and practice that emerged and dominated in the 20th century. The 'post-psychophysical' updates the concept of an integrated bodymind in various ways, such as the notion of a performer's bodyworld that incorporates technology and the material world. Offering invaluable introductions to a wide range of theories around which the book is structured - including postphenomenological, sociomaterial, affect and situated cognition - this volume provides readers with an enticing array of approaches to training and creative processes. Preface Note on Text Introduction Assemblage Theory Problematising Presence Relations of Exteriority 'Other Way Around' Perspectives Talking Training (or a Literature Review) Transitioning to Posthuman Perspectives New Fields of Study Crossroads of Psychophysicality Chapter 1. Towards Post-Psychophysical Perspectives Instrumental Perceptions Enabling Technology Things that Matter Man and Machine Available Time Hypothesis Project Hybrid Chapter 2. Experiencing Bodyworld: Postphenomenological Perspectives Conventional Psychophysicality Introducing Ihde Postphenomenology Multistabilities in Performance Interrelational Ontology Hybrid Relations, Embodied Hermeneutic Other Relations Bodies (Merleau-Ponty) to Bodies (Zarrilli) to Bodies (Ihde) Suggestions for Practice Chapter 3. Of Materiality and Dynamic Hybrids: Sociomaterial Perspectives Constructing Latour Dynamic Relations of Social Networks Dynamic Hybrids Trinity of Actants Hybrids in Performance Ideological and Ethical Approaches Material and Immaterial Labour Future Trainings Hyphenated Perspectives for Hyphenated Practices Tips for Practice Analysis Chapter 4. Unfolding Materialities of Practice: Methodological Perspectives Working Art Ecology of Connected Elements in Work Practices A Methodological Framework Case Study: Practitioner Academic Hybrid Practice Towards a Blended Methodology Tips for Practice Analysis Chapter 5. Incorporeal Materiality: Perspectives of Affect Perspective of Affect Intensities of Affect Materialities of the World Unite Ecologies of Affect for Performance Affective Logic, Habit, and Technique Mime and the Punctuation of Movement Post-Psychophysical Implications of Affect Suggestions for Practice Chapter 6. Tuning to the Post-Psychophysical Dance: Perspectives from Situated Cognition Fritz Writing Fritz Re(sonant)-Cognition and On-the-line Embodiment Sensorimotor Contingencies Fritz Observing Ryszard Body Image, Body Schema Sensorimotor Subjectivity Sensorimotor Exigencies and Affective Framing Technology and Objects: Expansion, Extension, Incorporation Incorporated Extension Epistemic Action Conclusion Suggestions for Practice Glossary of Terms Notes Bibliography Index