Acting & Actor Training
Postmodern Acting
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Postmodern acting has interrogated the idea of a unified subject and individual agency in a variety of ways. Its avoidance of characterisation means it is often understood more broadly as performance.
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Travis Preston, Dean speaks about innovation and entrepreneurism in training the 21st century actor.
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Sasi speaks on the Singaporean perspective of interculturalism and performer training.
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Dr. Ricard G. Abad and Melissa Vera M. Maramara speak on the impact of interculturalof actor training in the Philippines.
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Dr Tom Cornford speaks about diversity, inclusion, and social justice in contemporary actor training.
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Glenda Linscott speaks about approaches to training actors in contemporary Australia.
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Heather Timms speaks on the bicultural approach of actor training in New Zealand.
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This video is documentation taken from a weekly contact jam session with the
actors in the MFA Actor-Training program at UC Irvine. Contact Improvisation is
a large part of the movement arc in the first year of actor training, and jam
sessions are held weekly, integrating all three years of MFA actors.
Someone happened to video this session, and I give a brief description of
our use of contact as a tool for actor training in the
voice-over.
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Soldier, Child, Tortured Man (1989) was Goat Island’s first performance. It considered the physical and mental conditioning that militarises first the individual and then the social structure.
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The Lastmaker (2007) was Goat Island’s ninth and final performance, composed by the group with ending in mind. The piece took its inspiration from the historical trajectory of the Hagia Sophia.
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by Peter Zazzali
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Iben Nagel Rasmussen is an actor, director, teacher and writer born in Denmark. She has been a member of Odin Teatret since 1966 and conducts independent research as leader of ‘The Bridge of Winds’.
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Challenging ideas of coherent identity, universal value and truth as not only impossible but also duplicitous, postmodernism explores how meaning is always multiple and contingent on contexts.