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...