On Showing and Writing Training: A Symposium
Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance
Royal Holloway, University of London
Royal Holloway, University of London
Wednesday, 30 November
14:00 to 17:00
What is the difference between what
you do and how you talk about what you do?
What remains unsaid? What remains
undone? What gets undone?
What is impossible to explain?
Who do you think you're talking to?
The special issue of Theatre,
Dance and Performance Training 'On Showing and Writing Training'
(eds.) Dick McCaw and guest-editor Mary Paterson, brings together writing,
improvisation, experimentation and images to explore how performance is made
manifest, represented and reproduced through training. In doing so, the journal
addresses wider questions about pedagogy, the live and the remembered in
relation to the practices of art. This afternoon of discussions aims to
celebrate the special issue and further explore these ideas. The event will
feature an artist's response from the performer Karen Christopher, as well as
talks and provocations from John Hall, Franc Chamberlain, Ysabel Clare, Emma
Cocker and Clare Thornton, Joa Hug and other contributors.