Friday, September 21, 2001
Okay, to begin. Been reading 'Twentieth Century Actor Training' (Ed. Alison Hodge). Ian Watson's essay on Eugenio Barba describes how his company eventually took responsibility for their own training and would design personal programmes based on fundamental priniciples of voice and movement. Sounds like a good model for ethics, not only is there the sense of an ongoing practice but the call for a maturity of self knowledge that has to decide what needs to be done next. Also interesting to extend the analogy - the training continues alongside making work and is considered essential to the work - it keeps one primed and toned. What is the work that our ethical training is preparing us for? Of course we continue to have significant ethical encounters every time we meet another human being (or any living thing) but then there are also the more testing less predictable times when more is called from us when our powers of ethical improvisation will be revealed.
Phil Kingston 2:20 PM
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