Professor Paul Allain, School of Arts
Physical actor training – an online A-Z establishes a foundation for physical training exercises through over 60 dynamic videos with accompanying audio commentary, reflection and texts for today’s physical actor, teacher and trainer. Using innovative camera work and editing processes, each film explores a term from our A-Z, ranging from specific skills like Grounding and Balance to more abstract concepts like Energy or Craft. The A-Z was created by actor trainers Paul Allain and Frank Camilleri with filmmakers Peter Hulton and Stacie Lee Bennett, and trainees from the University of Kent.
The resource encourages enquiry and an active, hands-on training process geared towards movement work, vocal exploration, dance-theatre, and physical training. It includes the trainee voice, showing the learning process, highlighting challenges and how to work with them. Innovative approaches to filming reveal the exploratory use of digital tools in a studio environment.
The A-Z was published in July 2018 as part of Drama Online. More can be read about the project in the Digital Performer.
Email p.a.allain@kent.ac.uk
