Embodied Translation: 'Lost' legacies of performer training [Paperback]

This is a ground-breaking new book that re-considers a range of trajectories of influence across the established canon of twentieth century practices and challenges conventions of performer training historiography.

Part 1 Elsa Gindler: Stories and Practices  1. Elsa Gindlers Body Stories: From Gymnastik to Sensing  2. Concentration in Gindlers Work: A Conversation with Gelassenheit  Part 2 Sensing Gindlers Work in Training and Performance  3. Situating Sensing: Gertrud FalkeHellers Dance Training at Dartington Hall  4. The Gestalt of Breathing: Charlotte Selver, Sensory Awareness and Performer Training  5. Staging Sensing: Elaine Summers Kinetic Awareness and Pauline Oliveros Sonic Meditations  6. Invisible Training and Phronetic Knowledges in RedCape Theatres Be Brave and Leave for the Unknown

Rebecca Loukes is Associate Professor of Performance Practice in the Department of Communications, Drama and Film at University of Exeter and Co-Founder and Co-Director of RedCape Theatre.

This exciting new book explores the pioneering radical sensing work of Elsa Gindler (18851961) and the practices of five women inspired by her. It re-considers a range of trajectories of influence across the established canons of twentieth-century performer training practices and challenges conventions of performer training historiography. Moving from the early twentiethcentury Physical Culture movement through Modern and Postmodern dance training in Europe and North America to contemporary devised theatre in the UK, this is the first booklength study of Gindlers pedagogy in relation to performance. It allows trainers, arts practitioners, theatre, dance and art historians, and students to understlC'