Synopses & Reviews
These issues of Contemporary Theatre Review focus on the pre-expressive and a range of related concepts: score, underscore or subscore, text and performance-text, the body and mind of the performer, cultural and linguistic embedding, presence or the pre-performative. Authors include performers, directors and actor-trainers, a physicist, a theatre semiotician, and bio-aesthetician, academics, and drama and dance teachers.
Synopsis
This is Volume 7, Part I of the Contemporary Theatre Review, an International Journal, with this edition focusing on Prescence and pre-expressivity. Covering topics such as Body in Mind: Exploring Pre-Expressivity; Peter Brook and Traditional Thought; Grotowski, Holiness, and the Pre-Expressive; Barba's Concepts of the Pre-Expressive and the Third Organ of the Body of the Theatre and Theories of Consciousness; Pre-Expressivity: Some Thoughts from the Rehearsal Floor.