Imagining Bodies and Performer Training

This book is a practical and theoretical exploration of the embodied imagining processes of devised performance in which the human and more-than-human are co-implicated in the creative process.

Ellie Nixon is Director of Film and Performing Arts at Norwich University of the Arts, UK, and an actor, director and co-founder of La Mancha Theatre Company and La Mancha International Theatre School of Image and Gesture in Chile.

1. Jacques Lecoq and Gaston Bachelard: Towards a Training Paradigm for the Embodied Life of Imagining 2. AIR: Imagination as a Worldly Process 3. FIRE: Inflaming the Imagining Attitude 4. EARTH: Penetrating the Depths of the Resistant World and the Will to Action 5. WATER: Co-poiesis and the Will to Expression 6. REPERCUSSIONS: Eco-futures for Imagining Bodies