The Postdramatic Value of Amateur Aesthetics
In my last post, I responded to a paper by Matt Jones that was presented at the recent CATR/SQET conference in Ottawa. Continuing that trend, here are some thoughts/questions inspired […]
Tag Archives: acting
Behaviour in the Maze
In her book, The Actor, Image, and Action: Acting and cognitive neuroscience, Rhonda Blair identifies parallels between the computational theory of mind and core theories of naturalist acting. Popular proponent […]
Acting and Non-Acting part 2
Continuing to think about Michael Kirby’s model describing a spectrum of acting through not-acting. At the non-acting end, (as discussed in my previous post) Kirby suggests that performers who appear […]
Acting and Non-Acting part 1
Searching though the literature for theoretical insight into the phenomena of non-actors, I found an article by Michael Kirby, entitled “On Acting and Not-Acting, first published in 1972 in TDR […]
Upsurges of the Real: a performance research blog 