'Training Grounds': refined call for contributions
Since 'Training Grounds' was first conceived the editors, Teresa Brayshaw and Dick McCaw, have been working to lend the back-pages section to Theatre Dance and Performance Training (TDPT) a distinctive character, to encourage audiences to read the journal ‘from back to front’, or to see its concluding pages as an alternative entrance: a back door, perhaps, to issues of performer training.

'Training Grounds' will be divided into three sections and will balance commissioned writings ('Training Questions' and a 'Lexicon of Training Terms') with an open section entitled 'Training Txts/Texts'. This last section encourages contributions in a range of shorter, more immediate forms—‘postcards’ capturing a sudden realization or discovery in training; reflections of performance work encountered, reviews of training texts or workshops. There is also space to write an essai – to try out in writing more speculative ideas related to the training of the performer.

For this first edition we are seeking contributions ranging from a 100-word postcard to a maximum of 1500 words for the third section (Training Txts/Texts) only and relating to themes of 'starting out', 'in the beginning', or 'how to begin'. These should be sent in the first instance to the TDPT Editorial Assistant, Bryan Brown,  bryanbrown76@gmail.com  and copied to the Training Grounds editors: t.brayshaw@leedsmet.ac.uk and dickmccaw@blueyonder.co.uk 

 

Expressions of interest: Peer Reviewers for TDPT
Following an overwhelming response to our first call for papers, the TDPT editors are now anticipating a steady flow of articles and source documents for the first few issues of the journal. Whilst we have an excellent editorial board already in place, we recognize that the scope and number of articles in the pipeline would stretch any board's capabilities and we are therefore calling for expressions of interest from colleagues willing to act as peer reviewers for the journal over the next few years.  Those wishing to put themselves forward are requested to send an expression of interest coupled with brief details of specialism and discipline to our Editorial Assistant, Bryan Brown, bryanbrown76@gmail.com, and copied to the editors at: s.murray@tfts.arts.gla.ac.uk and j.pitches@leeds.ac.uk.