‘The Italic I – A 16 Stage Lexicon on the Arc of Falling’, an article and artists’ pages by Emma Cocker and Clare Thornton, has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming special issue of Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (TDPT), on Showing and Writing Training, (ed.) Mary Paterson (publication date, 2016).
About the issue: This special issue of TDPT is concerned as
much with form as it is with content, interested in the ways that discourse and
dialogue about training affect not only training and its stated aims, but also
the ways in which these methods and devices are accessed, remembered or
reproduced. Questions posed by this issue include: What is the difference between what you do
and how you talk about what you do? Who is unwelcome and how do they know? What
remains unsaid? What remains undone? What gets undone? Would you say all this
to someone you are training with? What kinds of discourses are (in)credible? What
have you already assumed? What is impossible to explain? What can only be
known in retrospect? How does it feel? What kind of person is produced by this
process and how will they talk? What is (in)substantial? What will change if we
do things the same way we talk about them? What will happen if we don’t? What
will change if we don’t change anything that we’re doing right now? What is
impossible to articulate in words? What are the secrets of your method? How do
you know you belong somewhere? Who do you think you are talking to?
Below is an extract central artists' page from our article, ‘The Italic I – A 16 Stage Lexicon on the Arc of Falling’.
Below is an extract central artists' page from our article, ‘The Italic I – A 16 Stage Lexicon on the Arc of Falling’.