Huge congratulations from all at TDPT to Konstantinos Thomaidis who has just won the Honourable Mention for Excellence in Editing at this year’s ATHE Awards, for his special issue for TDPT ‘What is new in voice training?’ 10.3. The award was announced today at the annual (online) conference. The … Continue reading
Ed. Note: The following entry is part of a series of posts marking the 1-year anniversary of the Special Issue ‘What is New in Voice Training?’ Over the last decade, I have been developing the project Listening Back: Towards a Vocal … Continue reading
We are pleased to present the third in a series of new posts celebrating the 1-year anniversary of our special issue on ‘What is new in voice training?’. Continue reading
Ali was a long term and loyal supporter of Theatre, Dance and Performance Training and, as an innovative and rigorous advocate of the importance of research in performer training, a significant presence on the editorial board. There is little question … Continue reading
We are delighted to share that the latest Theatre, Dance and Performance Training special issue, ‘What is New in Voice Training?’, is out. The issue, guest edited by Konstantinos Thomaidis, proposes a timely re-examination of voice in performer training. The … Continue reading
You are invited to witness a series of brief encounters, spanning exercises in progress, actors in rehearsal and interviews with international workshop participants as well as McLean. Continue reading
This is an illustration of how Mike Medaglia received my practice in the opening of The Somatic in Theatre and Performance Research Gathering. When I first saw my illustrated self, I felt uncomfortable with how I seem ‘bigger’ and ‘higher’ … Continue reading
Special issue entitled What is New in Voice Training? To be published in TDPT Vol 10.3 (September 2019) Call for contributions, ideas, proposals and dialogue with the editor Guest edited by Konstantinos Thomaidis, University of Exeter ([email protected]). Background and … Continue reading
I am an actress (Diploma GNT Drama School, MA East 15 Acting School) [1] I am an actress, somatic movement educator (Cert IBMT, RSME)[2] I am an actress, somatic acting-movement educator and researcher (PaR PhD, RCSSD)[3] I am an … Continue reading
Just back from the annual three day meeting of the TaPRA Performer Training Group and would like to capture some thoughts and reflections before they evaporate in the maze of the semester that lies ahead. Before I do so, one note on … Continue reading
Dear Colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to the new publication initiatives spearheaded by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Voice Studies: The Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies and its latest CfP on the theme of ‘Voicing Belonging: Traditional Singing in a Globalized … Continue reading
Coming out of the 2016 TaPRA Interim Event of the Performer Training Working Group, ‘Training to Give Evidence,’ gracefully organised by Kate Craddock and hosted by Northumbria University, certain provocations around the ethics of verbatim, documentary, and auto/biographical performance still … Continue reading
The 12th Annual TaPRA Conference will be co-hosted by University of Bristol, UK from 5th to 7th September 2016 (see: http://www.tapra.org/ ) The Performer Training Working Group has been meeting for eleven years and has produced several collaborative outputs, including a variety of contributions to the … Continue reading
TaPRA Interim Event, Wednesday 11th May 2016, Northumbria University Newcastle, 11am – 6pm 20th/21st Century Performer Training Working Group Training to give evidence: Performer training for verbatim, documentary, biographical and autobiographical performance practices Verbatim, documentary, biographical and autobiographical performance practices … Continue reading