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A Practitioner’s Attempt at Quantifying the Actor’s Experience

Author(s) -

Christine Brubaker

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

canadian theatre review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.171

H-Index - 6

eISSN - 1920-941X

pISSN - 0315-0836

DOI - 10.3138/ctr.172.013

Subject(s) - scale (ratio) , visual arts , performance studies , performance practice , sociology , psychology , art , geography , cartography , musical , anthropology

This article outlines selected findings from a personal research project I conducted in 2012 in Toronto with support from Nightswimming Theatre’s Pure Research Program—a program for professional artists to investigate questions within their practice free from any outside academic or performance agenda. I conducted a two-day performance lab with eighteen actors to investigate the experience of acting in different performance mediums and the usefulness of the Visual Analogue Scale to quantify this experience.

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