New Theatre Journal: Call for Papers

Wed Mar 11 10:54:00 EDT 2009

Dear Colleagues,

I¹ve been asked to share the following.

All the best,

Daniel

Theatre, Dance and Performance Training

Call for Papers: Issue 1 (Jan/Feb 2010)

Theatre Dance and Performance Training (TDPT) is a brand new, twice-yearly,
peer-reviewed journal which acts as a research forum for practitioners,
academics, creative artists and pedagogues interested in training in all its
complexity. The journal is dedicated to revealing the vital and diverse
processes of training and their relationship to performance forms both past
and present, a diversity reflected in the journal¹s international scope and
interdisciplinary form and focus.

TDPT acts as an outlet for documenting and analysing primary materials
relating to regimes of performer training as well as encouraging discursive
contributions in a range of critical and creative formats.

TDPT provides a valuable meeting-point for practitioner-researchers wanting
to know more about training before, beneath, beyond and within performance.

Submissions for manuscripts are sought for the three distinct areas of the
journal:

1. For  the largest section of the journal: discursive materials in the form
of  articles, critiques and extended analyses.  These will normally be from
5-7000 words.  
2. For  the section entitled Sources: materials relating to regimes of
performer training  workshop transcripts, interviews, new translations or
publications of key training documents, practitioner logbooks, academy or
laboratory curricula, training methodologies or manifestoes, framed by the
author and contextualised for the reader. These will normally be from 5-7000
words including any  contextualisation.
3. For  the section entitled Training  Grounds: contributions in a range of
shorter, more immediate forms  short  and fast postcards¹ capturing a
sudden realization or discovery in training  (up to 500 words);  considered
reflections of performance work encountered, reviews of training  texts or
of workshops experienced (up  to 1500 words). For this first issue we
particularly welcome proposals  around the subject of beginning training¹
(up to 1000 words). 
The scope of the journal will be on international understandings of training
in theatre, dance and performance and extends to forms such as live and
performance art, mime, opera, circus and puppetry. The journal also exposes
making processes - the work of dramaturgs, artists of new media or digital
technologies for instance - where the focus of the article is on training
and its relationship to performance. Some key areas of interest for all
three sections include:

* Training  purposes: why train, who trains and what is trained?
* Training  histories: the currency of historic training approaches in the
C21st  
* Interdisciplinary  training/Training interdisciplinarity
* Derivations,  lineages and (false) traditions
* Documentation  and training
* Training  places: laboratories, conservatoires, universities, schools,
ensembles  
* Training  the untrainable: intuition, creativity, presence, talent
* Intercultural  training
* The  languages of training and the problems of translation
* Embodied  knowledge and its dissemination
* The  politics and ethics of training
* Training  for and with new media
* Training  pedagogies and pedagogues
* Lifelong  or continuing training
250 word abstracts should be sent in the first instance to the TDPT
Editorial Assistant, Bryan Brown, bryanbrown76 at gmail.com and copied to the
editors at: s.murray at tfts.arts.gla.ac.uk and j.pitches at leeds.ac.uk.

The deadlines for this call are as follows:

1. Abstracts  and proposals (for the first two sections) to the editors:
March  30th 2009.  
2. Full  manuscript ready for Peer Review:   June 29th 2009
3. Revised  Copy for September 25th 2009
4. Publication  Date: January/February 2010 in the first issue of TDPT.
 Outline suggestions for any Training Grounds contributions are requested
for May 4th 2009.

 Editors
* Simon  Murray, University of  Glasgow, UK
* Jonathan  Pitches, University of  Leeds, UK
 Associate Editors:
* Paul  Allain, University of  Kent, UK
* Barry  Laing, Performance Maker, Teacher and Independent Scholar,
Australia  
* Ghislaine  Boddington, Creative  Director of body>data>space, Rescen
Research Associate artist, UK
* Rebecca  Loukes, University of  Exeter, UK
* Thomas Prattki, Director of London International School of Performing
Arts, UK 
Training Grounds Editors:
* Teresa  Brayshaw, Leeds Metropolitan  University, UK
* Dick  McCaw, Royal Holloway, University of  London, UK
 Editorial Board
* Franc  Chamberlain, University  College Cork, Ireland
* Veenapani  Chawla, Director Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Arts
Research, Pondicherry, India
* Chris  Crickmay, Artist, Performer, Author, UK
* Andrew  Dawson, Performer, Director, Feldenkrais Practitioner, UK
* Niamh  Dowling, Manchester Metropolitan  University, UK
* Rachel  Fensham, Dance, Film and Theatre, University of Surrey, UK
* Paul  Harman, Theatre Director and General Secretary, Theatre  for Young
Audiences, UK  
* Lin  Hixson, School  of the Art Institute of Chicago and Director Every
House has a Door,  US.
* Alison  Hodge, Royal Holloway, University of  London, UK
* Andrei  Kirrillov, Russian Institute of History of Arts, St. Petersburg,
Russia  
* Andrew  Lavender, The Central School of  Speech and Drama, University of
London,  UK  
* Thomas  Leabhart, Pomona College,  CA, US
* Joanna  Merlin, MICHA, New York,  US
* Jane  Milling, University of  Exeter, UK
* Jayachandran  Palazhy: Artistic Director Attakkalari Centre, Bangalore,
India  
* Li  Ruru, University of Leeds,  UK
* Ian  Watson, Rutgers,  New Jersey, US
* David  Williams, University College Falmouth,  Dartington Campus,  UK
* Noel  Witts, Leeds Metropolitan  University, UK

Peer Review Policy: TDPT is an international peer-reviewed journal. All
research articles published in the journal have undergone rigorous peer
review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at
least two anonymous referees. All reviewers are internationally recognized
in their field, and the editorial board of Theatre Dance and Performance
Training aims to support scholars from all corners of the globe. 

Submission of an article to the journal will be taken to imply that it
presents original, unpublished work not under consideration for publication
elsewhere. By submitting a manuscript, the authors agree that the exclusive
rights to reproduce and distribute the article have been given to the
publishers.

-- 
Bryan Brown
Postgraduate Studies, University of Leeds, England +44 07545 005968
TDPT, Editors' Assistant for Forthcoming Routledge Journal
(website soon)
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