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Embodied correspondences with the material world: Marcel Jousseās ālaboratory of the selfā as a force for creative practice in performer training
Drawing on the French anthropologist Marcel Jousseās notion of the body as a ālaboratory of the selfā, this article considers the compositional potential of an embodied imagining process starting from a sense of being with the material element of rock, more specifically, Haytor, located on Dartmoor National Park. In exploring the processes that took place during this research project, the article discusses how the trajectory of Jousseās approach to learning might enrich our understandings of a theatre-making process rooted in the relationship between the self-aware body and the substances that make up our environment. It suggests how this process-led model can offer fresh insights into a performer training ethos that welcomes uncertainty and the indeterminate. How might an embodied inner sense of self prompt students to be alert to what the world is telling us