Theatre Dance and Performance Training

Papers
(The TQCC of Theatre Dance and Performance Training is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Glimmers7
Training the breath5
Freeing the Natural Voice4
Training and tradition: generations4
A crime in vulgar eyes: the anti-racist pedagogy of Sarah Bernhardt4
Editorial3
Our contact improvisation partners during lockdown for dancers in training3
Aikido in Kokyu Studio’s practice3
Passion or profession: the training of theatre directors in South Africa3
What can an accomplice accomplish? Thinking about casting, point of view, and anti-racism in director training3
Training and the virtual: body network2
Green training: dancing under cherry blossom2
Mental health & the acting studio2
Center of gravity access in the Suzuki method and speculative health benefits2
Finding agency in the imagined body through Unreal Engine’s Live Link performance capture1
Tactile renegotiations in actor training: what the pandemic taught us about touch1
‘Let us lie there under the blue sky’ considering rest within academic training as creative prompt1
Director’s fear and self-cultivation1
Co-creating the future: re-imagining ballet training1
Are you scared of me? – The power of demeanour in teaching actors1
Hypermobility and actor-movement training: the risks of stretching1
Theatre in museums: ‘touch it without a touch’1
After the empty space: from traditional settings to new creative ecologies1
Towards a trauma informed pedagogy in actor training: knowledge and agency1
Editorial1
SWEAT Hong Kong International Dance Workshop Festival 2025: Cultural Sequences – Asia Pacific Choreographic Discovery, 18–22 June 2025, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA), Hong Kong, Ch1
Navigating the language of performance through mind and body: an interview with Nimmy Raphel1
Embodied pedagogy and expressive pathways for middle-aged women in China community theatre1
Editorial1
Editorial1
Body combat: fighting with my body1
Digital HotSpot: virtual agencies in online performer training1
Cross-cultural expression of Chinese ballet: Symbol, Identity, Context and Empathy1
Directing-as-training: embodied actor pedagogies in Nigerian theatre1
Someone else’s rehearsal1
Pandemic as climate: new ways of living, being and training1
Access for autistic student-actors: interrogating the role of empathy within actor-training methods1
Access and imagination1
How do listeners perceive emotional genuineness in musical theatre performers, and how might this help to inform the pedagogy of acting through song?1
What about director training? A story of 30 years – ‘back into the future’1
Dance education using digital technologies: enhancing effectiveness by facilitating student–teacher feedback1
Agentive green mobility: everyday performance training for women on wheels1
Constructing codes of behaviour: the ‘doxic agreement’ as a force for agency in contemporary dance technique training1
Performingwhiledocumenting or how to enhance thenarrative agencyof a camera1
‘And Suddenly…!’1
The applicability of historical Japanese and Polish fencing to the development of acting competences1
How do directors train?1
Director training: a mine field or brave new world?1
Correction0
Beyond the stomp: the Nobbs Suzuki Praxis as an Australian variant of the Suzuki Method of Actor Training0
Approaching actor training in nature0
‘Let go lightly’: the absent presence of taijiquan in the artistic practice of ROSA and ATIS0
In touch and between: a tactile toolkit for creative practitioners to navigate touch within their creative practice0
Director training and education: models from Brazil and the UK0
Language0
Anti-racism in practice: an interdisciplinary roundtable0
How theatres in the East Midlands are achieving impactful green training in the community0
Essai: a bad day in clown school: reclaiming play for performers of colour in bouffon practice0
Training for movement, physical activity and health0
The use of Body-Mind Centering ® to support training in Michael Chekhov’s acting technique0
One exercise I always return to: the dactyl and the gruppirovka0
Towards probody artmaking: from rehabilitation, prehabilitation to prohabilitation 10
Dance matters: dancing in Tunisia0
To unfold the wings0
Degrowth pedagogies: a manifesto for Earth-centred theatre training0
Sanctuary on the fault line: environmental dance practice as liminal critique and refuge0
Walks in the continuous field0
Thin skin – new ways of living, being and training0
What is river?0
Stanislavsky and Neurodiversity Symposium, presented by The S Word, by Ethan Graham Roeder0
Ballet as life-long learning0
Training and…tradition(s): the mask of the Magician0
No more ‘likes’: feedback as anti-oppressive artistic practice0
The interpersonal body: knowing another through the shared embodiment of ‘energetic contact’0
Stages of reckoning: antiracist and decolonial actor training Stages of reckoning: antiracist and decolonial actor training edited by A. M. 0
‘Trust me, kid’: leadership style and how we train directors to talk to actors0
Relational Dynamics: the use of coaching techniques in participative performance0
(hyper-) Linked: new ways of living, being and training0
Harmonising neurodiversity in musical theatre training: a teacher-student dialogue0
An Introduction to the Pedagogy of Georgian Director, Mikheil Tumanishvili0
Actions speak louder than words. An investigation around the promises and the reality of representation in actor training0
PLANT NATION – choreographic score by plants and humans0
Skills shared0
Editorial0
Voice (as and in) touch0
Hope, in the bleak mid-winter0
Linguistic bodies: cognitive science and Stanislavsky’s last words0
From schema to rhuthmos: the idiorrhythmic encounters of the bridge of winds0
International Platform for Performer Training (IPPT)0
Notes on training community dance professionals0
Jacques Copeau in tune with romanticism, hand in hand with Rousseau: from the myth of child’s innocence to the problems of actor’s consciousness0
Maurice Maeterlinck’s ‘The Tragic in Daily Life’: a video essay0
Lonely me, lonely you: dancing towards post-pandemic social reintegration0
Neuronormativity, naturalism and the neurotypical gaze: the equating of neurotypicality and quality in actor training0
Feelings of periodised dance training0
Moving Matter: A methodology for material-led collaborations0
Training and the virtual: the second Mouth cyborg0
Spaces of agency: exploring text-bodyworld hybrids0
Sustainability in technical theatre pedagogy and practice0
Judo as a devising practice: Yves Klein, La Mancha and Chile0
Improvisation, creativity, and research-based education in the performing arts (IMPACT)0
‘Stanislavsky and mindfulness, a one-day symposium’ hosted at London South Bank University on April 20 th , 2023, in partnership with the S word0
Accessing, playing and narrating culture(s) in African and European performance training0
Affective topologies and virtual tactile experiences in theatre training0
From circuit to body: reconfiguring performer training in interactive sustainable theatre0
Loose and not loose0
Positivity0
An actor and a monk: discovering and navigating impulses0
Editorial0
One exercise I always return to: games with names0
Accessing Psychophysical Identities through Russian Martial Arts in actor training0
Unveiling the Life of Trish Arnold: A Review of Lizzie Ballinger’s Biography0
Queer performance in times of the pandemic: movement, identity, and hope in heart2heart and The Ladder Project0
The ‘feltness’ of circus training: practitioner reflections on hypermobility, anxiety and neurodivergence0
Actor without a theatre (new ways of living, being and training)0
Material encounters: the art of noticing0
Feeling voices – new ways of living, being and training0
The listening actor: intersections between the musicality of Meisner Technique and ear training in Dalcroze Eurhythmics0
Archiving the healing touch0
A repertoire of touch in participatory choreography0
Touch as a feedback loop: exercising the leap from inertia to activation0
Training Historical European Martial Arts0
There is no such thing as an accident0
太极推手: Taiji Pushing Hands0
Building a culture of collaboration with rules, norms, and community agreements0
Interview with Padma Shri S. R. D. Prasad: On the Martial Art Form of Kalarippayattu0
Notes on contributors0
Mind over matter0
16.4 Editorial0
Democratising learning spaces: challenging hierarchical power0
What takes your breath away? Notes towards somatic training in times of ecological crises0
New platforms – for living, being and training0
The microphone is always hot0
Fun with Sticks0
Postcards from the unreal engine0
Unrehearsed Futures - Season 2: a series of public conversations on possibility, plurality and planetarity in theatre pedagogy hosted by Drama School Mumbai0
Leaving the script behind0
Touch in tableau: a powerful moment to break the wall0
One exercise I always return to: crossing the threshold0
An introduction to extracts from Rudolf Laban’s Dance and Gymnastics0
Green utopias: a possible green ground for performing arts training0
What is one exercise that you always return to? And why?0
Ecological training for ecological healing: performer’s training in Heisnam Kanhailal’s Theatre of the Earth0
The Nomadic Studio – dream-weaving a proposal for performer training0
Reconsidering Stanislavski and Barba in the light of neuroscience: a comparative study of organic acting0
International platform for performer training (IPPT)0
Theatre for Sentient Beings: a performative practice of apprenticing gestures and transformation with the southwestern American desert high plateaux0
‘Yes, and’ and ‘No, although’: Inviting dissent and difference towards agency as part of multi-representative practice in actor training0
Editorial0
Questioning invitational rhetoric in theatre and training practices0
What a touchy subject! Discussions, reflections and thoughts about touch on the UEL BA (Hons) Dance: Urban Practice course0
A place of practice – a report from Kokyu Studio0
Sculpting a story: guiding felt experiences in pedagogical space through iteration0
Habits of creativity: agency and children’s drama practice in imaginary play and elective classes0
Evoking feeling through the moving body0
Traditional oral training in the transmission of Cantonese Opera0
Moving with care: a critical/historical review of the practice of movement training for theatre in relation to physical education and care for the self0
‘It shouldn’t be necessary, but it happens a lot’: Undergraduate contemporary dancers’ perceptions of pain, injury, and fatigue0
A collective form of art: an interview with Yana Ross0
Postcard0
Is the readiness all? Revisiting martial arts in actor training0
A vernacular mimesis?0
The Road Not Taken: the importance of creative and experimental methods in training new acting students0
Architectures of access0
Filming process: questions and considerations0
Questioning feeling and feeling through questioning0
Negotiating two ropes and a bar: performance training for aerial dance duets0
Editorial0
The locus of control in higher education, a case study from performer training0
Mobilizing anti-racist thought and action through the arts in higher education0
Practice Progress: embodied ‘anti-racisting’ for race-based affinity groups0
Give yourself permission0
Evolving landscapes of performer training in the twenty-first century0
Postcard: training and… tradition0
Pushing the boundaries: How the actor training practices of Monika Pagneux and Philippe Gaulier may engender experiences of agency and empowerment in older theatre-makers0
Actor training underwater in the future0
The Unclean, ‘touching and training’ in puppetry from Japanese otome bunraku0
‘Flow’ – our time in motion0
Applied theatre training: theatre for Democracy and knowledge exchange0
The digital studio0
Skills for the edge of extinction0
Developing an ecological consciousness through 360° immersive dance-making0
Extended Postcard: an exercise in feeling0
International Conference: Rhythm in the body on stage: The Return Beat – Interfacing with our Interface0
Touch and consent: towards an ethics of care in intimate performance0
Exploring Rudolf Laban’s flow effort: new parameters of touch0
Actor training in anglophone countries: past, present and future, by Peter Zazzali0
Return to northeast China: echoes of family history with handkerchiefs0
Musicality and transformative mise-en-scène: Ten principles for teaching theatre directing as composition0
Embedding ecoscenography into performance design pedagogy: three practice-based approaches0
The Little Acorns – it was a touch and go experience0
A model of Buddhist-Somatic practice in Thai performer training0
Consent-based actor training as the only way forward0
One exercise I always return to… integrative physiovocal patterns0
Martial art-acting in dictatorial Indonesia: Antigone (1974) and Lysistrata (1975) directed by W. S. Rendra0
Reiterated empathy in BA director training0
‘As discreet and essential as a heartbeat’ 10
Acting class: the legacy of Joan and the politics of training – revisiting a working-class theatre ethos in today’s training rooms0
Personal development as director training: a dramatic dialogue0
Seeking authenticity in a professional world: personal narratives on collaborating with amateurs in contemporary Chinese choreographic practices0
Humanity and animality in Chinese martial arts0
Sensing space, moving with intention: reframing choreographic agency through somatic and installation practices0
Interview with Adrian Lester: taekwondo and actor training0
Embodied learning with metaphors and Rich Picture-like diagrams in actor training: an articulated, playful approach to teaching and practice-led research0
Mastering Angika Abhinaya : somatic actor training with Seraikella Chhau0
Facing the ‘Bruno’: how talking about stage fright eases the isolation, not the anxiety0
Postcard to a friend0
New ways of living, being and training: learning how to be with love0
‘Northern lights’, the Welfare State Winter School, in Ulverston, February 19910
Leaving the cave0
Green Training where are you?0
Turtlenecks and a bad attitude: student drama as director training0
Desmond Jones (1937–2024)0
Spatial projection: extended perception for theatre creators through the practice of Chinese martial arts0
‘And all the men and women merely players’: theatre training in VR0
Putting the Theatre Green Book into practice: sustainability, pedagogy and the conservatoire0
Between tradition and modernity: developments in Xiqu (Chinese opera) actor training0
In/tension: Striving for balance between agency and discipline in Training0
Embodied ecological awareness and the pedagogy of Jacques Lecoq0
Transformations across time and space0
Editorial0
Is this a stethoscope I see before me? Extratheatrical employment as enhancement to actor training0
Training for resilience0
Concrete experience: Parkour as a culture of agential learning0
‘Call Me by My Name’: inclusive actor training for second language users0
Dancing with Eternity in Zizhuyuan’s Embrace0
The canon and the contemporary: change, challenge, conceit0
Editorial0
Maintaining the consent-bubble: an intimacy coordinator’s perspective on touch in performance training0
Martial arts training during the pandemic and beyond: towards practices of virtuality0
Moving in a different direction (directing down under): the evolution of director training into studies of ‘creative leadership’ in an Australian context0
Actor training in the absence of Western methods: a personal journey from Ta’ziyeh to American theatre education0
Somatic Wisdom0
Editorial0
Performing landscape as a practice of the awakened heart*0
The S-Word Conference: Stand in Place/Stanislavski & Place0
Performer’s dramaturgy: Developing dramaturgical thinking through choreological practice0
Embodiment, hybridity, and habit: the stick as an actor training tool0
The legacy of the Nanjing Project: training Australian circus bodies0
Chat up0
Beyond the stage: transferable skills for health and resilience0
Amateur actor training in Israeli community-based theatre0
Monika Pagneux (1927–2023): a kind of obituary0
Training the intercultural physical body: stylised dagger technique, Lecoq’s poetic body, and touch-based improvisation in Blind Bird0
‘Training and access’0
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