The Dutch Historical Acting Collective (DHAC) has presented its recent work in a volume of European Drama and Performance Studies, guest edited by yours truly. This issue includes essays, articles and links to related video and audio materials:

Historical Acting Techniques and the 21st-Century Body, Jed Wentz, ed., European Drama and Performance Studies, 2022 - 2, no. 19.

 

The authors represented: Mary Carruthers, Kat Carson, Sabine Chaouche, Andreas Gilger, Bernhard Hommel, Laila Cathleen Neuman, João Luís Paixão, Martina Papiro, Anne Smith, Paul Craenen and Jed Wentz.

 

Click below for related (audio-visual) materials:

 

Anne Smith, Standing with Ease and Grace: Or the Difficulty of Reading Historical Acting Treatises Objectively

 

Laila Cathleen Neuman, 'Despairing Rage' and 'Courageous Pride': Exploring the Acting Style of Johannes Jelgerhuis through Practice-Based Research

 

João Luís Paixão: Facing the Passions: An Embodied Approach to Facial Expression on the Eighteenth-Century Stage

 

Martina Papiro, The Plates of Morrocchesi’s Lezioni di declamazione e d’arte teatrale (1832): An Introduction and Analysis

 

Jed Wentz, ‘And the wing’d muscles, into meanings fly’: Practice-Based Research into Historical Acting through the Writings of Aaron Hill

 

Sabine Chaouche, Acting through the Lens of the Press: Impulsive Styles, Truthful Tones and Scenic Expressivity in Eighteenth-Century France

 

Andreas Gilger, Tempo in Declamation According to Gustav Anton Freiherr von Seckendorff  

 

Kat Carson, Past into present: Breathing life into contemporary performance with historical acting