Abstract:
This presentation draws on Aiden Condron’s thirty-year experience as a performer, maker, researcher and educator who has trained and coached actors and performers in the UK, Europe, the US, India and the Middle East in live and recorded media across a range of settings and cultural contexts including private tuition, community arts projects, barter exchanges, laboratory theatre, commercial theatre film and TV and institutionally as a Lecturer in Acting in leading higher education conservatoires and universities.
Operating under the auspices of Living Acting Studio which he founded in 2020, in this talk Condron seeks to examine possibilities for a universal, decentralised and deterritorialised pedagogy by positing an approach to performer training that eschews named culturally specific methodologies and traditions in favour of a universal triad of organising principles; Presence, Play & Action: three investigative fields that encompass and essentialise all that has endured across disparate approaches and the global ecology of actor and performer training.
These three guiding pillars, each comprising its own evolving sub-areas of study, are encountered individually and concurrently to form a continuum around the actor/performer’s developing process, guiding them in becoming a whole and fully integrated living actor-creator.
This pedagogy of principles promotes a holistic & integrative approach to contemporary actor training which sees successful acting and optimal living as interrelated and mutually beneficial processes.
This presentation is aimed at performers, teachers, curriculum makers and all who are interested in exploring an inclusive guiding framework for their thinking and practice.
BIO:
Aiden Condron has been engaged for over thirty years at the forefront of established and emerging theatre and performance practices in the UK, Ireland and Internationally. He is a Lecturer in Acting & Performance at London South Bank University and associate editor on Routledge’s international journal of Theatre, Dance & Performance Training.