Encountering Ensemble

Part One: Introduction; John Britton; Chapter 1: Bryan Brown : The Emergence of Studiinost: the ethics and processes of ensemble in the Russian theatre studio; Chapter 2: Amy Skinner: More than the Sum of their Parts: Reflections on Vsevolod Meyerhold's Theatrical Ensemble; Chapter 3: Franc Chamberlain: Michael Chekhov's Ensemble Feeling; Chapter 4: Jonathan Pitches: Star or Team? Theodore Komisarjevsky's early developments in ensemble playing in the UK; Chapter 5: Mark Evans: The French Ensemble Tradition: Jacques Copeau, Michel Saint-Denis and Jacques Lecoq; Chapter 6: David Barnett: The Berliner Ensemble. PartTwo: Snapshot #1: Chris Johnstone: Ensemble; Snapshot #2: Michael Boyd (Introduced by DuSka Radosavljevic) :The RSC Ensemble; Chapter 7: Adam J. Ledger: Stan's Cafe: the Vision of the Ensemble; Snapshot #3: Peter Harrop & Evelyn Jamieson: Collaboration, ensemble, devising; Snapshot #4: Paul Carr & Richard J. Hand: Ensemble/Improvisation; Drama/Music: An Experiment in Interdisciplinarity; Chapter 8: Bryan Brown: As important as blood and shelter: extending studiinost into obshchnost; Snapshot #5: Julia Varley: Ensembles, groups, networks; Snapshot #6: Malgorzata Jablonska :Teatr CHOREA: Synchrony in Action; Snapshot #7: Anna Porubcansky: Song of the Goat Theatre (Teatr Piesn Kozla); Chapter 9: Rebecca Loukes: Towards a Syncretic Ensemble? RedCape Theatre's 'The Idiot Colony'; Snapshot #8: Mark Valdez: Network of Ensemble Theaters; Chapter 10: Brad Krumholz: Locating the Ensemble: NACL Theatre and the Ethics of Collaboration; Chapter 11: Paz Hilfinger-Pardo: Building Chartres in the Desert: The TEAM, Collective Intelligence, and the Failure of Ideals; Chapter 12: John Collins: Elevator Repair Service and The Wooster Group: Ensembles Surviving Themselves; Chapter 13: Marianne Sharp: 'Whose Fantasy?' Five Voices on Rachel Rosenthal's TOHUBOHU! Extreme Theater Ensemble; Snapshot #9: Kate Hunter: The Waiting Room: Practicing Embodied Cognition in Performance; Snapshot #10: Frank Camilleri: Ingemar Lindh and the Institutet för Scenkonst. Part Three: John Britton: Introduction; Chapter 14: John Britton: Self-With-Others: Training individuals ensemble; Snapshot #11: Eilon Morris: Collaborating in Time: The formation of ensemble through rhythm; Snapshot #12: Tanya Gerstle: Delicate Codes and Invisible Lines. 'Pulse': An Approach to Training an Ensemble; Chapter 15: Phillip Zarrilli: Psychophysical Training and the formation of an Ensemble; Snapshot #13: Antje Diedrich: Suzuki Training as Ensemble Training; Snapshot #14: Terence Henry Chapman: Ensemble Training and Meyerhold's Biomechanics; Snapshot #15: Chris Johnstone: Narrative Images; Chapter 16: Susan Thompson: Freedom and Constraints: Jacques Lecoq and the Theater of Ensemble Creation; Snapshot #16: Bryan Brown: Birthdays Make the Best Training; Snapshot #17: Patrick Stewart: Where I'll Be On Armageddon; John Britton: Afterword: What is it?