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The Life of Training

The Life of Training

by JohnMatthews (Author)

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    Hardcover 2019

    $145.28
Synopsis

Following on from Training for Performance (2011) and Anatomy of Performance Training (2014), John Matthews's investigation of the implications of training goes deeper still, this time into the role of training in the generation of time. With chapters on the seven characteristics of biological life - reproduction, stimulation, heredity, adaptation, growth, metabolism, homeostasis - Matthews combines his unique approach with elements of Hannah Arendt's mature philosophy to reach surprising and essential conclusions about the role of time in training practices, and about the function of training practices in producing time and its tenses. Ideal for readers seeking to understand the relationship training practices have with human experience, on stage and off stage, or for teachers looking for a new, innovative approach to performance, The Life of Training is an accessible, original contribution to the philosophy of training for performance.

$145.28

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 208
 Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 18 Apr 2019
ISBN 10: 135004640X
ISBN 13: 9781350046405
Book Overview: In this follow-up to Anatomy of Performance Training (2014), John Matthews makes a compelling argument that training not only takes times, but makes time too. Employing the mature philosophy of Hannah Arendt, this book explains how training produces our human experience of past, present and future.

Media Reviews
Extending his Training for Performance (2011), the author unpacks his thesis that the act of training is a human endeavor that everyone does because everyone is limited by having a body. The stories frame ethnographical, political, social, and psychological constructs to unlock aspects of the performer's anatomy ... the book is an intriguing contribution to performance studies. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, professionals. * CHOICE (on Anatomy of Performance Training) *
Matthews offers an insightful, engaging, and imaginative read that urgently questions the place of training, and its attendant implications and values, in the twenty-first-century theatremaking context. * Julie Rada, University of Utah, USA (on Anatomy of Performance Training) *
Author Bio
John Matthews is a performer and theatre-maker and author of Training for Performance (2011) and Anatomy of Performance Training (2014). He is Programme Leader of the prestigious acting programme with Theatre Royal Plymouth Conservatoire, UK