Theatre, Dance and Performance Training ( TDPT) is a rigorously peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for practitioners, academics, creative artists and pedagogues to articulate research into performance training in all its diversity.
The journal prides itself on revealing insights into the complex and vital processes of training and their relationship to performance making, including those from the past, from the present, and speculating into the future. TDPT is genuinely international in scope and interdisciplinary in form and focus. Authors are encouraged to review previous articles published in the journal for examples of these insights and to assess the appropriateness of their proposal.
Formats
- Our “ Articles” feature contributions in a range of critical and scholarly formats (approx. 5,500-7,000 words).
- Our “ Sources” provide an outlet for the documentation and analysis of primary materials of performer training, appropriately
contextualised and critiqued by the author(s) . (approx. 5,500-7,000 words).
- The editors request that authors submit a 250 word abstract directly to them before submitting a full essay. This can be done by emailing
your abstract to Jonathan Pitches ( [email protected]) and Libby Worth ( [email protected]).
- Our “ Training Grounds” materials are briefer pieces, (which are not peer reviewed.)
We encourage contributions from makers, practitioners, scholars, and students at all stages of training and development for these pieces.
Training Grounds comprises:
- Essais (more speculative and playful essays (between 750-1,250 words))
- Postcards (up to 100 words; can use an image too)- Speaking Image (1 page of image and text)- Book Reviews and Event reviews (up to 1500 words).
For Essais, Postcards and Speaking Image formats, please contact the Training Grounds editors: Thomas Wilson ( [email protected]), Sara Reed ( [email protected]) and Roanna Mitchell ( [email protected]).
For suggestions for Book reviews please email Chris Hay ( [email protected])
For suggestions for Events reviews please email Aiden Condron ( [email protected])
Innovative cross-over print/digital formats are possible, including the submission of audiovisual training materials, which can be housed on the online interactive Theatre, Dance and Performance Training journal blog: http://theatredanceperformancetraining.org/
The journal accepts articles on any aspect of performance training, which may include but not be restricted to:
·Training purposes: why train, who trains and what is trained?
·Training historiographies: the currency of historic training approaches in the C21st
·Training futures: emerging trends and methodologies
·Theorising training
·Interdisciplinary training
·Intercultural training
·Intergenerational training
·Training and race; training and gender; training and (dis)ability
·Training lineages and (false) traditions
·Training, documentation and visuality
·Training places: laboratories, conservatoires, universities, schools, ensembles
·Training the untrainable: intuition, creativity, presence, talent
·The languages of training and the problems of translation
·Training for voice and sound production
·The politics and ethics of training
·Training pedagogies and pedagogues
·Training and (digital) technologies
·Lifelong or continuing training
Papers are reviewed 'single-anonymized' by recognised experts in the field. Feedback on papers is always provided and the editors work closely with authors in the development of papers, post-peer review (See Instructions for Authors for more details).
Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.
Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.
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