TaPRA 2025 Performer Training CFP
Deadline: March 10, 2025
27-29 August 2025, University of Warwick
Theme: Training Beyond (Established) Techniques
The UK higher education theatre and performance field is unstable – with drama schools ‘particularly hard hit by the previous government’s decision to cut funding for arts subjects to prioritise STEM subjects’ (Weale and Hattenstone, 2025), several universities closing or condensing drama departments over the last few years in response to these cuts, reduced applications, and reduced intake of...
TaPRA 2024 Performer Training working group
Deadline: April 10, 2024
Centering Second Language Users in Performer Training
Among efforts to decolonise and decenter the actor training studio, practitioners and scholars consider the barriers for students who speak English as a Second Language (henceforth, ESL) and undertake performer training in English. Innovative and inclusive pedagogies draw on cultural studies and second language acquisition research to support ESL users in transcending barriers concerning dispositions about performance standards (Espinosa...
