Radical Sensing and Performer Training av Rebecca Loukes

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<p>This is a ground-breaking new book that re-considers a range of trajectories of influence across the established canon of twentieth century practices and challenges conventions of performer training historiography.</p><p>The book explores the pioneering radical sensing work of Elsa Gindler (1885-1961) and the practices of five women inspired by her. Moving from the early 20<sup>th</sup> Century Physical Culture movement, through Modern and Postmodern dance training in Europe and North America to contemporary devised theatre in the UK, this is the first book-length study of Gindler¿s pedagogy in relation to performance. It will allow trainers, arts practitioners, theatre, dance and art historians and students to understand previously unexplored gaps in the knowledge of performance, Somatics, philosophies of knowledge and their co-development. Identifying how feminist ways of knowing and being are embedded in practices of body awareness, the book brings Gindler¿s unique practices into