[ecrea] TaPRA Performer Training Working Group - Performer Training and Media Ecologies

We’re delighted to announce our Call for Papers for TaPRA’s Performer 
Training Working Group Interim Event

*TaPRA Performer Training Working Group*

*Interim Event*

*Monday 22 May 2017, 11am - 6pm*

*University of York*

*Performer Training and Media Ecologies*

The work of the contemporary performer regularly traverses different 
forms of media. Once discrete fields – such as theatre, film, 
television, radio – have been joined by hybrid forms which call on the 
performer to reshape their work in exciting new ways. Media convergence 
is an industrial and artistic reality, and this research and practice 
event will explore the role and training of the performer in today’s 
rich and complex media landscape. Whilst TaPRA focuses on theatre and 
performance research, we would also welcome contributions from 
researchers who explore performance from other fields, such as film and 
television studies, music, interactive media and digital technologies.

Some of the areas we’d like to explore include:

-Performer training and interactive technologies

-Performer training and multi-platform theatre

-Performer training and live theatre broadcast

-Apps as performer training tools

-New technologies as rehearsal tools

-Performer training for green screen, motion capture and gaming

-Media convergence and the performer’s skill-set

-Performance and the non-human

We always look to include research from postgraduate and early career 
researchers as well as experienced scholars. Practice as Research is a 
critical component of the Working Group, and so we welcome 
demonstrations and practical research papers too. We invite proposals for:

-10 minute provocations

-20 minute written papers

-30 minute working progress demonstrations/presentations

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*Submitting a Proposal*

Please email all abstracts (no more than 300 words in length), an 
additional few sentences of biographical information and precise details 
of the audio-visual technology you will need to make your presentation 
to Tom Cantrell ((tom.cantrell /at/ york.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(tom.cantrell /at/ york.ac.uk)>) by *Friday 31 March.*

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*About the Performer Training Working Group*

The Performer Training Working Group is a vibrant group of scholars and 
practitioners exploring a wide range of performance training practices. 
The group includes post-graduate students, early career academics as 
well as experienced and senior researchers. The group has members from 
around Europe and the UK as well as papers from around the world. As 
such, presentations and discussions embrace a wide variety of cultures 
and performance traditions. Similarly rich is the formats of the 
contributions to the group, which include written and pre-circulated 
papers, practice-as-research demonstrations and workshops. The group has 
been meeting for eleven years and has produced several collaborative 
outputs, including a variety of contributions to the thrice-yearly 
journal, /Theatre, Dance and Performance Training/, dedicated to 
training in all its manifestations, and the associated blog 
http://theatredanceperformancetraining.org 
<http://theatredanceperformancetraining.org/>.


*Registration*

This event is free and registration will open in a few weeks' time. (You 
will need to be a member of TaPRA but can join for £10 to attend the 
event) There will be funds available for postgraduate researchers to attend.


Many thanks,

The Performer Training WG convenors: Tom Cantrell, Maria Kapsali and 
Kate Craddock**

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