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Performer Training for Actors and Athletes (Hardcover)
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Performer Training for Actors and Athletes (Hardcover)
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What goes on in the body and mind of an endurance athlete at the
limits of performance? How do they relate to the world around and
prepare for the task ahead? Offering a refreshing perspective on
training in the cross-lighting of aesthetic and athletic processes,
this book focuses on the learning, mastery and creative adaptation
of technique in performance. From traditional and physical actors
to runners, boxers and other sports practitioners, it is about
performers: their bodies, trainings and experiences. It
interrogates what it means to prepare and train as a performer in
the early 21st century. Writing from extensive experience in
physical theatre and long-distance running, the author combines
insights from both disciplines along with theatre history, sports
science and perspectives like embodied cognition and affective
science. From the kind of thoughts that go through the mind of an
actor or a runner, to the economy and aesthetic of their movement
and to how they feel about it, this book sheds light on the
performing body and its capacities for action. Topics covered
include attentional focus and distraction, affordances and
equipment, ‘choking’ and stage fright, physiological regulation
and effort perception, pacing and play, optimal flow and creative
improvisation, and intentionality and automaticity in expert
performance. The volume presents an informative and
thought-provoking account accessible to readers interested in
theatre, dance, performance, running, athletics, and sport.
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