The Talking Drum Acting System: towards a decolonized African acting methodology.
The Talking Drum Acting System (TDAS) is a decolonized African actor training framework grounded in indigenous performance logics such as rhythm, tonal language, call-and-response, and ancestral invocation. Developed through practice-as-research at Rivers State University, TDAS draws on the communic...
| Publicado en: | South African Theatre Journal (Taylor & Francis Ltd ) Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 219 - 243 |
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Nov2024
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