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Arts Education – what should we teach and how?

2 March, 2010
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Posted by Kate Foy

There’s a Twitter discussion happening right now hashtagged #artsed . The hashtag acts as a search key for tweets that have anything to do with arts education, but this particular thread of the discussion is focussing on the issue of professional training for artists – more particularly theatre artists, and especially actors. The originating posts

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So you want to be an actor? We have a problem

15 December, 2008
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Actors and Acting
Posted by Kate Foy

A year ago I wrote about American scholar and practitioner Robert Hornby’s ‘The End of Acting’. It’s a book that has a strong point of view about the art of acting and the education of artists. I’ve enjoyed dipping back into it since a first reading in 1993. That an actor needs training is, from

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Arts Education – what should we teach and how?

So you want to be an actor? We have a problem