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Training is the individual actor’s physical and vocal daily exercise. In contemporary theatre, training has been given a central place in the actor’s knowledge and autonomy, inspired mainly by the example of Grotowski’s Teater-Laboratorium and Barba’s Odin Teatret. Training has been a field of work which Odin Teatret’s director and actors have never tired of developing, deepening and reflecting upon. Many texts and didactic films, which have become influential, testify to this continuous reflection involving both technical and ethical aspects. Still today, after 45 years, Odin actors continue to have a time/space devoted to training. For them the term training involves different aspects of their creative potentialities. In the first years training is a form of elementary apprenticeship (the section which we have called Craft) making them incorporate a particular way of thinking through exercises and introducing the individual actor to the “culture” of the group. Then the training becomes a zone of greater freedom in which the actor experiments and creates individual paths. With the years, training becomes a personal laboratory where the actor, alone or in a small group, concentrates on aspects of text, music and dramaturgical structuring which may sometimes end up as autonomous performances. At intervals over the years, all the actors have gathered in the working room to train together with a view to a common performance. |