Performer Training Reconfigured: Post-psychophysical Perspectives for the Twenty [Hardcover]

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 critical approaches to training and creative processes.

The book rethinks the phenomenon of training for theatre and performance. It will inspire performers, students, scholars, and other professionals to approach training and other work processes from a wider spectrum of possibilities.Frank Camilleriis Associate Professor in Theatre Studies at the University of Malta where he is also Director of the School of Performing Arts' research centre for 21st Century Studies in Performance. He is Artistic Director and founder of Icarus Performance Project, which serves as the main platform of his Practice as Research (www.icarusproject.info).

Camilleri boldly argues that we should move on from the psychophysical paradigm which has dominated acting theories for the last decade or more. With the term post-psychophysical, his innovative approach encompasses the much broader social and technological context in which today's performer operates, opening up new horizol'