Resources

Book chapter: Mitchell, Roanna (2024) ‘Gesture in Actor Training and with Survivors of BPD Diagnosis: Finding communication towards relational thirdness’. In Trauma and Embodied Healing in Dramatherapy, Theatre and Performance, ed. J.F. Jacques (Routledge).

Article: Mitchell, Roanna. (2022) ‘Not not doing therapy: Performer training and the ‘third’ space’ in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (13:2, pp 222-237)  

Article: Fleming, Cass. (2021) ‘A Constant Process of Expansion’, Michael Chekhov: Imagination and Community, Performing Arts in Times of Crisis (II), FAP Revista Científica de Artes Journal, published by Faculty of Arts of Paraná (FAP) of UNESPAR, Brazil Available for free as an open access article here.

Book (edited collection): Fleming, C. and Cornford, T. (2020) (eds.) Michael Chekhov in the Twenty First Century: New Pathways. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.  This publication was named as one of the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of the year (ALA) in the USA.

Book chapter: Fleming, C (2020) ‘Introduction: Past, present and future’ in Fleming, C. and Cornford, T. (2020) (eds.) Michael Chekhov in the Twenty First Century: New Pathways. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.

Book chapter: Fleming, C (2020) ‘Theatre of the future: Chekhov for devised theatre and catalyst direction’ in Fleming, C. and Cornford, T. (2020) (eds.) Michael Chekhov in the Twenty First Century: New Pathways. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.

Book chapter: Fleming, C & Cornford, T (2020) ‘Cross-currents and conclusions’ in Fleming, C. and Cornford, T. (2020) (eds.) Michael Chekhov in the Twenty First Century: New Pathways. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.

Book chapter: Mitchell, R (2020) ‘The moment you are not inwardly moving and inwardly participating, you are dead: Chekhov technique in actor-movement and dance’ in Fleming, C. and Cornford, T. (2020) (eds.) Michael Chekhov in the Twenty First Century: New Pathways. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.

Editorial: Fleming, C., Evans M and Reed, S. (eds.) 2020. Extended Editorial in ‘Against the Canon’, Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, special issue 11.3. London and New York: Routledge

Article: Fleming, C. (2020) ‘Playing outside the frame: revealing the hidden contributions of the women in the French tradition of actor training’ in (eds.) Fleming, C., Evans, M. and Reed, S. ‘Against the Canon’, Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, special issue 11.3. London and New York: Routldege

Article: Mitchell, Roanna (2020) Something in the atmosphere? Michael Chekhov, Deirdre Hurst Du Prey, and a web of practices between acting and dance. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 11 (3). pp. 255-273.

Book Chapter: Evans, M and Fleming C.  (2019) ‘Jacques Copeau’ in The Great European Theatre Directors, Vol 3 (ed.) Pitches, J (series editor Shephard, S).  London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.

Book Chapter: Mitchell, Roanna and Dennis, Krysta (2016) The Dramaturgy of Wine, the Terroir of Performance: Multi-Sensory Performance-Making in Through the Grapevine. In: Markstein, Helene Gee and Steijn, Arthur Maria, eds. Inhabiting the Meta Visual: Contemporary Performance Themes. Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 9-19.

Article: Mitchell, Roanna (2014) Seen But Not Heard: An embodied account of the (student) actor’s aesthetic labour. Theatre Dance and Performance Training, 5 (1). pp. 59-73.

Article: Cornford, T. Fleming, C & Rushe, S. (2013) ‘The Michael Chekhov Centre UK Past, Present and Future: An Inter-Generational Dialogue’ in (eds.) Chamberlain, F. and Kirillov, A. ‘Michael Chekhov in the C21st: New Sources, New Contexts, New Perspectives,’ Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, Special Issue 4.2 , London and New York: Routledge

Book: Fleming, C. 2013. ‘A genealogy of the embodied theatre practices of Suzanne Bing and Michael Chekhov: the use of play in actor training’. De Montfort University, Leicester.
Available for free as an open access book here.