Approaching actor training in nature

Raven, Natalie and Chadwick, Eleanor (2024) Approaching actor training in nature. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 15 (3). pp. 559-573. ISSN 1944-3927

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Abstract

In July of 2022 following a public call for participation, a collective of South West undergraduate and graduate performance artists came together in order to participate in a residential summer school responding to the theme of actor training in nature. Drawing on research in the field of cognition studies, the study adopted micro-phenomenological interview techniques to capture and analyse participant experience. Data reveals that training techniques when situated within land and seascape – coupled with use of micro-phenomenological interviews – supports greater sensitivity to the sensorial experience of nature, attunement to natural environments and different living species, the promotion of ecocentric thinking, and positive behaviour change continuing beyond the residential experience. The study offers readers critically reflective insight into summer school performer-training production processes guided by eco-feminist and egalitarian principles, situated in the rural South West of England, UK.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	performer training, phenomenology, ecocentric thinking, eco-feminism, summer school
Depositing User:	Ms Raisa Burton
Date Deposited:	09 Jan 2025 10:42
Last Modified:	09 Jan 2025 10:42
URI:	https://marjon.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/17928
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