Journal Details
Theatre, Dance and Performance Training
Published By: Routledge
Volume Number: 3
Frequency: 3 issues per year
Print ISSN: 1944-3927
Online ISSN: 1944-3919
Aims & Scope
Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (TDPT) is a twice-yearly, peer-reviewed journal which acts as a research forum for practitioners, academics, creative artists and pedagogues interested in training in all its complexity and across cultures. The journal is dedicated to revealing the vital and diverse processes of training and their relationship to performance making, including those from the past, from the present, and into the future. This diversity is reflected in the journal's international scope and interdisciplinary form and focus.
TDPT acts as an outlet for documenting and analysing primary materials relating to regimes of performer training as well as encouraging discursive contributions in a range of critical and creative formats. It provides a valuable meeting-point for practitioner-researchers wanting to know more about training before, beneath, beyond and within performance.
Some key areas of interest for all three sections of the journal include:
- Training purposes: why train, who trains and what is trained?
- Training histories: the currency of historic training approaches in the C21st
- Training futures: emerging trends and methodologies
- Interdisciplinary training/Training interdisciplinarity
- Derivations, lineages and (false) traditions
- Documentation and training
- Training places: laboratories, conservatoires, universities, schools, ensembles
- Training the untrainable: intuition, creativity, presence, talent
- Intercultural training
- The languages of training and the problems of translation
- Embodied knowledge and its dissemination
- The politics and ethics of training
- Training for and with new media
- Training pedagogies and pedagogues
- Lifelong or continuing training
Articles
For the largest section of the journal, submissions are sought in the form of articles, critiques and extended analyses.
Sources
Materials relating to regimes of performer training – workshop transcripts, interviews, new translations or publications of key training documents, practitioner logbooks, academy or laboratory curricula, training methodologies or manifestoes, framed by the author and contextualized for the reader.
Training Grounds
Contributions in a range of shorter, more immediate forms capturing a sudden realization or discovery in training; considered reflections of performance work encountered, reviews of training texts or workshops experienced.
For further details on these sections see 'Instructions for Authors'.
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